On 2010-11-04 Bryen wrote: > On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 11:03 +0900, Satoru Matsumoto wrote: > > Some of you may have read the blog post about openSUSE Conference by > > Brian Proffitt, one of the most famous writers in Linux and FLOSS world. > > http://www.itworld.com/open-source/125538/opensuse-conference-a-time-intr > > ospection > > > > He wrote: > > "The conference, which had the theme "Collaboration across Borders," > > seemed almost completely non-existent in the US tech media. Most of the > > coverage I could find was in the German trade press. Hardly any beyond > > that. (...)" > > > > So the question is, was our advertising campaign for OSC enough to > > spread the word to a much broader audience of people beyond openSUSE > > community? > > > > You may know there are some active Linux/FLOSS news sites such as: > > Linux Today > > http://www.linuxtoday.com/ > > LXer > > http://lxer.com/ > > EntirelyOpenSource.com > > http://www.entirelyopensource.com/ > > > > I, as a editor of Weekly News, regularly go around those sites to see if > > there are some interesting news on Linux/FLOSS. But to be honest, I > > could find only few entries about OSC on those sites. I think that was > > one of the reason why Brian felt OSC was "almost completely non-existent > > in the US tech media". > > > > If an information is aimed at only openSUSE commynity, writing an > > article on {news,lizards}.o.o and posting it to opensuse-* lists would > > be just enough. But some information should be reached to a much broader > > people beyond openSUSE community. > > > > So I'm going to submit openSUSE related news to those sites when I think > > they might be interesting also for people beyond openSUSE community. If > > you know other active news sites in addition to above 3 sites, please > > let me know. ;-) > > > > But since I'm just an volunteer and my time is limited, that cannot be > > done only by me. Your help will be always welcomed. :-) > > > > Best, > > I think it is worth reviewing where we are and how we can improve on > this. It seems only natural that media in Germany and around there > would have picked up on the news best. But at the sme time, we do lose > out on showing that openSUSE project is global. > > To that end, we are building up a special mailing list for press people > to subscribe to and receive relevant announcements and press releases. > We need to grow it more. So anyone who has names and email addresses to > recommend, please forward to AJ, Jos or me. > > Furthermore, we need to address our own internal strategy within the > team for how we publicize ourselves. And social media still figures > prominently in this area, and to that, we need to have the brainstorming > session we've talked about recently about how to improve and leverage > our masses to spread even further. > > But the heart of what you are saying is absolutely important. You're > saying we're preaching to the choir too much and need to talk outside of > our groups when publicising news. +10000 for this. Let's confab and > figure out the best way to break out from our shell and show the world > we're still here and standing!
Well, besides the value of talking, I think Satoru does exactly the right thing: going out and Just Doing It (TM) :D If half the ppl on this list post push 1 article from news.o.o to an international news site per year, we'd be doing 1000 times better than now :D In general, the news.o.o team (or lack there-of) should be responsible for this. I say lack there-of because despite the fact that there are a bunch of ppl (including me) who have access to news.o.o, there is no communication about articles. I think that's bad and want to change that. But consering henne's plans for news.o.o (henne, any further ideas on that front?) I'm unsure where to move right now... > Bryen M yunashko
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