Re: [opensuse-marketing] See link. Can we have one?

2011-10-31 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 30.10.2011 Roger wrote: On Saturday, October 29, 2011 06:43:22 AM jdd wrote: Le 29/10/2011 14:51, Jos Poortvliet a écrit : I'm sure we could do a fund raiser to buy an old sixties Volkswagen van and paint it Green or make large magnetic sticker and borrow one bus for the travel

[opensuse-marketing] Re: openSUSE 12.1 Slideshow rework?

2011-10-31 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 17.10.2011 Andreas wrote: Hi, is anybody tasked with reworking the slideshow? This needs to be done quickly so that it gets translated... I do not know anyone who works on this, I have seen some activity I believe... Anyone knows who did that? Andreas signature.asc Description:

Re: [opensuse-marketing] See link. Can we have one?

2011-10-29 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 27.10.2011 Kostas wrote: 2011/10/27 Jos Poortvliet j...@opensuse.org: http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/zoobus.jpg BTW you ARE testing openSUSE 12.1 RC's right? Sleep is over-rated :D Yeap-yeap-yeap Can we? Can we? Can we

[opensuse-marketing] closing old facebook pages

2011-10-28 Thread Jos Poortvliet
Heya all, I did a google search for our facebook pages. Google said that these are the ones we currently have: https://www.facebook.com/pages/openSUSE/45393742283; product/service with 2600 likes http://www.facebook.com/pages/openSUSE/107715102589260; Interest with 5200 likes

[opensuse-marketing] See link. Can we have one?

2011-10-27 Thread Jos Poortvliet
http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/zoobus.jpg BTW you ARE testing openSUSE 12.1 RC's right? Sleep is over-rated :D signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[opensuse-marketing] The release notes/product highlights for 12.1

2011-10-24 Thread Jos Poortvliet
Heya all, Your marketeers have been working on the product highlights for 12.1 but especially in the more technical area's we are quite prone to making mistakes and missing Cool Stuff(TM). We therefor would like to ask you to spend a bit of your time on reviewing of and adding to our release

Re: [opensuse-marketing] The release notes/product highlights for 12.1

2011-10-24 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 24.10.2011 Kim wrote: Am 24.10.2011 21:13, schrieb Manu Gupta: On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Kim Leyendecker kimleyendec...@hotmail.de wrote: Hello friends, * 10/24/2011 Jos Poortvliet wrote: Heya all, Your marketeers have been working on the product

Re: [opensuse-marketing] flyer editing

2011-10-21 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 14.10.2011 jdd wrote: Hello :-) I try to make the flyer easier to edit and translate. The final goal is to have a scribus (or eventually inkscape) source. For this I began to extract objects from the eps file, to be able to rebuild the flyer. I try to manage that through git, but

Re: [opensuse-marketing] 12.1 Presentation Template Available

2011-10-07 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Thursday 06 October 2011 13:06:06 Jos Poortvliet wrote: On Thursday 06 October 2011 02:07:19 Richard Brown wrote: Hi All, I've created and uploaded a presentation template based on the 12.1 artwork It is available in our -artwork gitorious repo, in the slides folder

Re: [opensuse-marketing] 12.1 Presentation Template Available

2011-10-06 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Thursday 06 October 2011 02:07:19 Richard Brown wrote: Hi All, I've created and uploaded a presentation template based on the 12.1 artwork It is available in our -artwork gitorious repo, in the slides folder Or directly for download from

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Quotes and links needed...

2011-10-04 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Monday 03 October 2011 14:40:55 Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: Hey folks, One of the articles scheduled for post-Beta is an article about what people are saying about openSUSE 12.1 Beta. To do this right, I'd like to enlist you all to do one of the following: 1: Send links to any articles

Re: [opensuse-marketing] release notes

2011-10-03 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Thursday 29 September 2011 12:55:36 Tony Su wrote: Good start Jos. Was JDD and others at the oS Marketing Hackfest, I haven't done anything yet :D I made a number of grammatical and technical modifications to your Etherpad, and did a little bit of revision for conciseness and I hope

Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] Re: [opensuse-marketing] T-Dose 56 November

2011-10-03 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Tuesday 27 September 2011 23:04:14 Rob Snelders wrote: Hi All, Is anybody interrested? I can't be there and nobody else stepped up as far as I know. Sorry, Rob... Greetings, Rob Snelders Stichting T-Dose On ma 19 sep 2011 22:13:45 CEST, Kostas Koudaras wrote: 2011/9/19 Jos

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Marketing Team reminder

2011-10-03 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Tuesday 27 September 2011 19:01:24 jdd wrote: Le 27/09/2011 17:12, Bryen M. Yunashko a écrit : Some of us have talked and decided to push our regular meeting (which is I will have a very hard to manage agenda for next days :-(, so some infos here * the final artwork seems to be nearly

[opensuse-marketing] Re: 12.1 Beta status

2011-09-24 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Wednesday 21 September 2011 12:56:28 Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: Just an FYI to everyone, According to Bernard, we will have a delay of the 12.1 beta release by two weeks. It should have been released tomorrow, but pushed back for several reasons. Bernard is working on an announcement

[opensuse-marketing] Re: 12.1 Beta status

2011-09-24 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Saturday 24 September 2011 14:16:51 Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 14:13 +0200, Jos Poortvliet wrote: On Wednesday 21 September 2011 12:56:28 Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: Just an FYI to everyone, According to Bernard, we will have a delay of the 12.1 beta release

Re: [opensuse-marketing] easy task: oS release notes - GNOME 3.2

2011-09-19 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 19.09.2011 jdd wrote: Le 19/09/2011 14:50, Jos Poortvliet a écrit : I just noticed the release notes for GNOME 3.2 are ready for translation. That also means we can include them in the openSUSE 12.1 release notes now! So, all it takes is to take these notes by finding the link

Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] Re: [opensuse-marketing] T-Dose 56 November

2011-09-19 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 18.09.2011 Kostas wrote: 2011/9/17 Kim Leyendecker kimleyendec...@hotmail.de: Rob, I think the ambassadors will be lucky to have it on their list too. So, I forwarded it :-) +1 Kim Any ambassador willing to go? I can't unfortunately, as I'm not in NL at that time. I've asked the

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Sponsorship for small community computer lab?

2011-09-07 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 03.09.2011 Roger wrote: I work with a small group in my city called the Blood Orange InfoShop (BOIS). I host my Linux Users Group, and Linux workshops at that location. They generally call themselves an Anarchist Collective. They believe in Do It Yourself Culture, thus they hold workshops

[opensuse-marketing] Re: poster project again

2011-09-07 Thread Jos Poortvliet
As nobody seems to have any/many opinions on this I will try to discuss it at the openSUSE conference. If we don't find a volunteer that is fine, I'll get it done inside the company ;-) Cheers, Jos On 30.08.2011 Jos wrote: Hi all!!! I've gotten the budget together to do the awesome

[opensuse-marketing] poster project again

2011-08-29 Thread Jos Poortvliet
Hi all!!! I've gotten the budget together to do the awesome poster/calendar project we did last year again. You know, the one with the calendar of FOSS events on one side and the Beer poster on the other side. For this year, we're gonna do it even bigger, in the international Linux Magazine

[opensuse-marketing] opinions

2011-08-28 Thread Jos Poortvliet
Heya all, I wrote a tutorial on getting Linux 3.0 on openSUSE as well as on how to upgrade to Tumbleweed. Its not a great fit for news.opensuse.org so I wonder - what website should I submit it too, in your opinion? Cheers, Jos signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE marketing hackfest

2011-08-18 Thread Jos Poortvliet
Hi all, Sorry about the complete lack of clarity and explanation on the marketing hackfest idea. Most of you knew we would do it - but what/how/when/where was unclear. Let me attempt to clarify: As you'll be at oSC anyway, adding a few hotel nights for a meeting is easy! We can get some work

[opensuse-marketing] Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] Collaboration Days

2011-08-04 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-08-03 Kostas wrote: Hi people 12.1 will be out on November and November is closer that you can imagine when it comes to the amount of work that should be done by then. So in order to reach out I propose to repeat Collaboration days. We made great amount of work there and with great

Re: [opensuse-marketing] desktop statistics...

2011-07-27 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-07-18 Klaas wrote: Am Sonntag 17 Juli 2011, 17:46:15 schrieb Kim Leyendecker: Hi, At first, it seems like a good idea to find out how many desktop users openSUSE has, indeed. *But* I´m getting kinda nervous when you´re talking about cookies. This could be misunderstood by the

[opensuse-marketing] Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] Fwd: Re: Idea for promoting oSC (promotional Video)

2011-07-27 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-07-24 jdd wrote: Hello, Kostas and me discussed of a video of sort to promote the OSC ('openSUSE Conference, September) De : Kostas Koudaras warlord...@gmail.com Ok, so my thought is to take small videos of ambassadors calling people to the oSC in their native language

Re: [opensuse-marketing] desktop statistics...

2011-07-17 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-07-13 Bruno wrote: snip The default home page of all browsers on opensuse points to a very simple url, like opensuse.org/home That page is so usefull that almost all users will appreciate it. For example, it just consists of a very plain and simple search bar (like this well-known

[opensuse-marketing] Counters need updating!!!

2011-07-06 Thread Jos Poortvliet
Hey marketeers, Anyone with some graphics skills up to fixing up the counters for oSC 2011? http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference_artwork Cheers, Jos signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Marketing Team Meeting Today!

2011-06-30 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-06-29 Manu wrote: On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Kostas Koudaras warlord...@gmail.com wrote: For some reason I got the e-mail now... :-( Our Servers those days are behaving bad Its not our servers, it is google's and the majority of us live with google Meh, big fail. I only

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] Re: [opensuse] Attention -- Facebook Group Members

2011-06-29 Thread Jos Poortvliet
Le 10/06/2011 10:49, Jos Poortvliet a écrit : On Thursday 09 June 2011 20:29:51 Chuck Payne wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Chuck Payneterror...@gmail.com wrote: {ATTENTION} Please pass this a long to your friends that this might effect/ Sorry for the cross post

[opensuse-marketing] Fwd: [opensuse-buildservice] Feedback on OBS Private instance installation at Renault Automotive

2011-06-28 Thread Jos Poortvliet
I think it'd be awesome if we could contact Xavier and do an article about this for news.o.o... I'm pretty sure we already have half the info we need for that in his mail to -builservice below :D On 2011-06-23 JAFFREZIC Xavier xavier.jaffre...@renault.com wrote: Hi everybody, I'm working at

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Re: openSUSE Brochure

2011-06-20 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Friday 17 June 2011 13:34:49 Henne Vogelsang wrote: Hey, On 16.06.2011 21:54, Jos Poortvliet wrote: Can I get some of your thoughts on this? You asked for it ;) You could've said it in one of the earlier versions of the brochure - we've been working on this for 5 months or so

[opensuse-marketing] how did openSUSE medical and edu LI-f-e get started?

2011-06-20 Thread Jos Poortvliet
Hi all, After a discussion a couple of weeks ago about what it is to be an openSUSE project Henne came up with the idea to interview the people who have started openSUSE projects about how they did that. I think it's a neath idea and I wonder if any of you would be interested in doing that?

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE 12.1 Marketing Hackfest

2011-06-20 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Friday 20 May 2011 14:07:44 Bruno Friedmann wrote: On 05/19/2011 07:19 PM, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: As some of you are making plans to attend the openSUSE Conference and setting up your reservations, we feel it is a good idea to tell you in advance of our preliminary plans for the

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Re: openSUSE Brochure

2011-06-17 Thread Jos Poortvliet
? Best regards Max 2011/6/17 Jos Poortvliet jospoortvl...@gmail.com: On Friday 10 June 2011 10:41:13 Jos Poortvliet wrote: On Thursday 09 June 2011 17:10:12 Karl Cheney wrote: James: My understanding is that A4 is the required alternative and requested size. The closest

Re: [opensuse-marketing] [in the press] talking about openSUSE 11.4

2011-06-12 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Saturday 11 June 2011 13:06:28 jdd wrote: Le 11/06/2011 12:55, Kim Leyendecker a écrit : PCWL delivers oS 11.4 KDE live in their DVD does somebody know how this works? I the paper completely free to use openSUSE or is there any talk between the paper and Novell or anybody else? They

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Re: openSUSE Brochure

2011-06-10 Thread Jos Poortvliet
avialable in a US Legal format (8.5 x 14) than US Letter (8.5x11). No need to remove anything! - James Mason 'bear454' On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Jos Poortvliet jospoortvl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 09 June 2011 01:14:03 Karl Cheney wrote: All: When flat, the current

[opensuse-marketing] Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] Re: [opensuse] Attention -- Facebook Group Members

2011-06-10 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Thursday 09 June 2011 20:29:51 Chuck Payne wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Chuck Payne terror...@gmail.com wrote: {ATTENTION} Please pass this a long to your friends that this might effect/ Sorry for the cross post but I want to make sure everyone knows that we will be

[opensuse-marketing] Re: writing about cool stuff BESIDES OBS and tumbleweed...

2011-06-07 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Monday 06 June 2011 23:51:45 Kostas Koudaras wrote: Hey, great idea Don't forget about Evergreen In this month's magazine 'Linux Inside' I wrote an article about Evergreen and Tumbleweed I think I could write something about Evergreen as an article for News if you are interested and I

[opensuse-marketing] Re: writing about cool stuff BESIDES OBS and tumbleweed...

2011-06-07 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Tuesday 07 June 2011 21:35:55 Kostas Koudaras wrote: 2011/6/7 Jos Poortvliet jpoortvl...@novell.com: On Monday 06 June 2011 23:51:45 Kostas Koudaras wrote: Hey, great idea Don't forget about Evergreen In this month's magazine 'Linux Inside' I wrote an article about Evergreen

Re: [opensuse-marketing] application catalog

2011-06-07 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Tuesday 07 June 2011 20:00:13 jdd wrote: Look at this: http://www.april.org/catalogue_libre it's a french brochure that do not advertise a distro but free applications it's sold at *0.5€* each (on paper, color), what I find extremely cheap. At first glance it seems to me specially

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Interview and Newspapers Advert

2011-06-06 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Monday 06 June 2011 20:18:52 Stuart Tanner wrote: Dear All I should be interested in your oppinion on the newspaper advert published today!! Here's the link: http://www.laissezfairelondon.co.uk/ Click on the Flash Paper and refer to: Pages 13-15 and page 31. I think it's

[opensuse-marketing] Re: writing about cool stuff BESIDES OBS and tumbleweed...

2011-06-06 Thread Jos Poortvliet
KIWI. To elaborate a bit on what I'm looking for, it's mostly 'new, cool, small, not-promoted-enough technical stuff in openSUSE'. Wide scope, I know :D 2011/6/7 Jos Poortvliet jpoortvl...@novell.com: I know, I know. The title must be weird. Do we do more than OBS and Tumbleweed

Re: [opensuse-marketing] IPv6 World Day 2011 Participation: help needed

2011-06-03 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Friday 03 June 2011 11:10:57 Bruno Friedmann wrote: On 05/26/2011 01:06 PM, Andreas Jaeger wrote: On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 08:44:59 Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 08:36 +0200, Lars Vogdt wrote: Hi @ll You might already be aware of the fact that openSUSE participates

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Requests DVDs for Free Software event hat has 5000 or more expected

2011-06-02 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Thursday 02 June 2011 04:37:49 Izabel Valverde wrote: Hi Cabelo, We already have 1000 DVD's to distribute for FISL - some stickers as well ;-). I had commented on pt list I believe you read something... We'll have our openSUSE Community Meeting (or in portuguese - Evento Comunitário) and

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Re: Elevator pitches

2011-05-30 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Friday 27 May 2011 20:29:40 Bruno Friedmann wrote: On 05/27/2011 12:36 PM, Jos Poortvliet wrote: On Wednesday 18 May 2011 17:05:59 Jos Poortvliet wrote: Dear marketeers, For those among us (esp our ambassadors) who frequently talk to people about openSUSE, I have drafted up three

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE promo material in Romanian

2011-05-30 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Sunday 29 May 2011 00:15:57 Strainu wrote: Hi there, A while ago, we made some business cards and banners for openSUSE in Romania. I was wondering how can it get on gitorious or wherever the marketing/arwork projects are keeping stuff nowadays. Thanks, Strainu Hi Strainu, You can

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Newspaper Advert

2011-05-30 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Friday 27 May 2011 22:44:13 Stuart Tanner wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2011 13:19:43 Jos Poortvliet wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2011 13:15:51 Okuro Okiawa wrote: On 24.05.2011 12:46, Jos Poortvliet wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2011 12:32:25 Okuro Okiawa wrote: On 24.05.2011 09:04, jdd wrote

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Newspaper Advert

2011-05-30 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Friday 27 May 2011 07:58:53 jdd wrote: Le 27/05/2011 06:30, Thomas Thym a écrit : I have put the draft of the strategy on the wiki. http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Strategy_draft may be we couls quote evergreen and tumbleweed? specially in the last paragraph? (openSUSE does not...) I

[opensuse-marketing] Re: Elevator pitches

2011-05-27 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Wednesday 18 May 2011 17:05:59 Jos Poortvliet wrote: Dear marketeers, For those among us (esp our ambassadors) who frequently talk to people about openSUSE, I have drafted up three elevator pitches for respectively beginner, advanced and pro linux users to explain to them why THEY should

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Newspaper Advert

2011-05-26 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Wednesday 25 May 2011 17:26:48 Kim Leyendecker wrote: Am 24.05.2011 15:38, schrieb Okuro Okiawa: Well, and exactly that's the reason, why openSUSE and Linux in general is mostly common in nerds or IT freaks (besides the Linux Servers). The question for openSUSE now is, which direction

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Newspaper Advert

2011-05-24 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Tuesday 24 May 2011 01:02:26 Helen South wrote: Following on from the months Article, the owner has promised me three to four / ongoing features on openSUSE to continue to promote it over windows. In order to get all this promotion, the owner of the newspaper has asked me to take

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Re: OBS rename

2011-05-24 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Tuesday 24 May 2011 10:20:05 Klaas Freitag wrote: Hi, Am Dienstag 24 Mai 2011, 00:09:32 schrieb Jos Poortvliet: The current workflow seriously needs to be fixed. true or not, not really on-topic here, we (as in the marketing team) won't be fixing it ;-) PS feel free

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Newspaper Advert

2011-05-24 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Tuesday 24 May 2011 12:32:25 Okuro Okiawa wrote: On 24.05.2011 09:04, jdd wrote: Le 24/05/2011 01:18, Stuart Tanner a écrit : But if they don't publish the advert, and it doesn't appear on the streets on London then I have reason enough to make a claim against them I guess.

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Newspaper Advert

2011-05-24 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Tuesday 24 May 2011 13:15:51 Okuro Okiawa wrote: On 24.05.2011 12:46, Jos Poortvliet wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2011 12:32:25 Okuro Okiawa wrote: On 24.05.2011 09:04, jdd wrote: Le 24/05/2011 01:18, Stuart Tanner a écrit : [...] By the way: Are there any predesigned ads

[opensuse-marketing] Re: OBS rename

2011-05-24 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Thursday 19 May 2011 17:42:43 Jos Poortvliet wrote: Hi all!!! With some delay, the rename has been decided upon and I wrote a draft announcement. Part of it has to be added still (the paragraph on the bottom and the quotes from other parties) but otherwise it is ready for your input

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Newspaper Advert

2011-05-24 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Tuesday 24 May 2011 16:23:20 Izabel Valverde wrote: 2011/5/24 jdd j...@dodin.org Le 24/05/2011 13:12, Okuro Okiawa a écrit : Hence, openSUSE has to be presented as an easy and comfortable solution for your work to take away the fear of some people of damaging anything when they touch

Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] Re: [opensuse-marketing] Novell sponsored training for Ambassadors?

2011-05-23 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Friday 20 May 2011 19:07:59 Alan Clark wrote: On 5/13/2011 at 12:10 PM, in message 4dcd7407.8080...@gmail.com, Roger Luedecke roger.luede...@gmail.com wrote: I think it might be a good move if training and certification were offered free to Ambassadors. Something like the Certified

[opensuse-marketing] Re: OBS rename

2011-05-23 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Thursday 19 May 2011 17:42:43 Jos Poortvliet wrote: Hi all!!! With some delay, the rename has been decided upon and I wrote a draft announcement. Part of it has to be added still (the paragraph on the bottom and the quotes from other parties) but otherwise it is ready for your input

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Re: OBS rename

2011-05-23 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Monday 23 May 2011 10:27:46 jdd wrote: Le 23/05/2011 10:17, Jos Poortvliet a écrit : This list came up with the idea to rename renaming is really necessary. It's incredibly difficult to explain to visitors what is OBS, when it's one of the best idea ever! OBS don't even translate

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Re: OBS rename

2011-05-23 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Monday 23 May 2011 15:59:02 Ricardo Chung wrote: On Monday, May 23, 2011 8:05:03 AM Klaas Freitag wrote: Am Montag 23 Mai 2011, 10:27:46 schrieb jdd: Le 23/05/2011 10:17, Jos Poortvliet a écrit : This list came up with the idea to rename renaming is really necessary. It's

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Where to buy openSUSE dvds?

2011-05-23 Thread Jos Poortvliet
marketing git. Sure! I wish i could damn figure how to get my HTC Desire HD emails past the mailing list sensor bot i have set the email to be sent in plain text but still it seems to be sending part text/part html. ;-) Stuart -Original Message- From: Jos Poortvliet jospoortvl

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Re: OBS rename

2011-05-23 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Monday 23 May 2011 19:36:30 jdd wrote: This discussion is finished AFAIK sorry, I was misleaded byt the subject I created a piratepad, please go in and help describe OBS for the tens of thousands of users who visit build.opensuse.org and openbuildservice.org!!!

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Re: OBS rename

2011-05-23 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Monday 23 May 2011 23:35:04 Roger Luedecke wrote: On Monday, May 23, 2011 01:25:19 PM Jos Poortvliet wrote: On Monday 23 May 2011 19:36:30 jdd wrote: This discussion is finished AFAIK sorry, I was misleaded byt the subject I created a piratepad, please go in and help

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Re: OBS rename

2011-05-23 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Tuesday 24 May 2011 00:07:14 Jos Poortvliet wrote: On Monday 23 May 2011 23:35:04 Roger Luedecke wrote: On Monday, May 23, 2011 01:25:19 PM Jos Poortvliet wrote: On Monday 23 May 2011 19:36:30 jdd wrote: This discussion is finished AFAIK sorry, I was misleaded byt

[opensuse-marketing] Re: OBS rename

2011-05-19 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Thursday 19 May 2011 17:42:43 Jos Poortvliet wrote: Hi all!!! With some delay, the rename has been decided upon and I wrote a draft announcement. Part of it has to be added still (the paragraph on the bottom and the quotes from other parties) but otherwise it is ready for your input

[opensuse-marketing] Elevator pitches

2011-05-18 Thread Jos Poortvliet
Dear marketeers, For those among us (esp our ambassadors) who frequently talk to people about openSUSE, I have drafted up three elevator pitches for respectively beginner, advanced and pro linux users to explain to them why THEY should check out openSUSE. The pitches can be found on

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Where to buy openSUSE dvds?

2011-05-17 Thread Jos Poortvliet
that choice and you'd have to talk to them about it... Stuart Bolton Linux 24 Vincent Street Heaton Bolton BL1 4SA Tel: 01204 410474 Mob: 07868 028028 www.bolin.org.uk Sent from my Blackberry Bold Smartphone -Original Message- From: Jos Poortvliet jospoortvl...@gmail.com

Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] Re: [opensuse-marketing] Non-standard compliant website list

2011-05-16 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Monday 16 May 2011 09:51:14 Roger Luedecke wrote: On Sunday, May 15, 2011 10:49:11 PM Andreas Jaeger wrote: On Sunday, May 15, 2011 07:12:10 PM Roger Luedecke wrote: One thing that keeps people from adopting Linux is the problem of websites being designed using MS only technologies, or

[opensuse-marketing] Fwd: Publicity Material for Southwest Computer Conference

2011-05-16 Thread Jos Poortvliet
Hi all!!! See attached, anyone able to come up with something on such short notice? -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Publicity Material for Southwest Computer Conference Date: Tuesday 10 May 2011, 01:29:44 From: Orv Beach o...@orvsplace.net To: Bryen M. Yunashko

[opensuse-marketing] Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] banner for cheap

2011-05-16 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Monday 16 May 2011 11:21:08 jdd wrote: It's a very good addon when building a boot to have a banner. You can find an example here (including photos of the actual banner) - the banner is printed on heavy material, the one made specially for banners and with eyelets. You have to give a pdf

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Introduction.

2011-05-16 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Tuesday 10 May 2011 13:44:47 Richard Clinker wrote: Hi there. Nelson (ketheriel) suggested I join this mailing list after I responded to a forum thread about contributing to openSUSE. (http://forums.opensuse.org/english/other-forums/community-fun/surveys-poll

Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Conference Poster

2011-05-11 Thread Jos Poortvliet
...@opensuse.org wrote: On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Jos Poortvliet jospoortvl...@gmail.com wrote: Hey hugbears, Master Robert has created a nice openSUSE Conference Poster: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rlihm/5703446814/sizes/l/in/photostr eam/ Oh very cool. I really like the aesthetic

[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Conference Poster

2011-05-09 Thread Jos Poortvliet
Hey hugbears, Master Robert has created a nice openSUSE Conference Poster: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rlihm/5703446814/sizes/l/in/photostream/ Here are a dropbox version of the source already: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/294274/oS-Conf-2011/Poster/poster-conf-raster.eps and

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Thoughts on openSUSE Conference Name

2011-05-08 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Friday 06 May 2011 21:54:18 Klaas Freitag wrote: Am Freitag, 6. Mai 2011, 18:22:10 schrieb Jos Poortvliet: Hi Next monday we still have time to print a cool poster for LinuxTag. So we need to decide on a theme sunday. As you've seen in the mail to -project, we have a conference

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Thoughts on openSUSE Conference Name

2011-05-06 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Monday 02 May 2011 17:16:16 Manu Gupta wrote: On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Jos Poortvliet j...@opensuse.org wrote: On 2011-04-28 Ricardo wrote: On Thursday, April 28, 2011 4:33:18 AM Klaas Freitag wrote: Am Donnerstag 28 April 2011, 03:37:46 schrieb Helen South: I have an idea

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Fwd: [opensuse-ambassadors] recommendations for brochures etc. to print up for user groups

2011-05-06 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Thursday 05 May 2011 07:58:20 Tim Serong wrote: Oops, probably should have sent this to marketing. Having dug through the artwork repo, I do like the all in one flyer... On 5/3/2011 at 04:07 PM, Tim Serong tser...@novell.com wrote: Hi All, I'm looking at sending some batches of

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Thoughts on openSUSE Conference Name

2011-04-29 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-04-28 Ricardo wrote: On Thursday, April 28, 2011 4:33:18 AM Klaas Freitag wrote: Am Donnerstag 28 April 2011, 03:37:46 schrieb Helen South: I have an idea for a background of text (something like the green on black Matrix code, but horizontal) with rwx repeated, and openSUSE

Re: Fwd: [opensuse-marketing] PDF posters

2011-04-25 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-02-15 Pieter wrote: Hi Andreas, I already added the posters here: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Artwork_miscellaneous I could add the slides to http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Presentations, but I don't think they're fit for presentations because they've got too much text on

[opensuse-marketing] Re: whaaaa cool!

2011-04-23 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-04-14 Jos wrote: Who created these: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Artwork_miscellaneous#Various_subject s Really awesome posters! Shouldn't we print a few of these for the US?!? :D I wonder if this message ever made it to the list... I haven't seen responses... I'm trying

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Re: Pictures and more FLISOL 2011

2011-04-13 Thread Jos Poortvliet
FLISOL rocks :D On 2011-04-11 OpenSuse wrote: 2011/4/9 OpenSuse Español opensuse...@gmail.com Saludos he asistido al FLISOL 2011 Celebrado aquí en Costa Rica, fue todo un éxito. Adjunto Fotografías de la Actividad. Para observar mas fotografías de la actividad: Fan Page:

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Report, videos and pix from the FOSS Confernece (Ukraine)

2011-04-13 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-04-11 simka wrote: I'd like to thank Novell and Jos Poortvliet and Andreas Jaeger in particular for their sponsorship, help and support and we hope to have you as our guests on the next event we're going to have on 15th and 16th of December 2011 :) It was our pleasure! It's good

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Contributor Recognition - how can we do it?

2011-04-13 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-04-07 jdd wrote: Le 07/04/2011 14:51, Andreas Jaeger a écrit : That's why Jos proposed to use as list all openSUSE members - it's self- nominating, it's easy to collect etc... yes, I don't see other way. And to know who is still contributing, I see only one way: ask for a

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE poster source file request

2011-04-13 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-04-06 Manu wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Helen South helen.so...@opensuse.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Manu Gupta manugu...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to upload the whole of the git to the wiki but currently I dont know why it is not uploadable to the

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Where to buy openSUSE dvds?

2011-04-13 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-04-05 Andreas wrote: http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/products/linux/suse http://www.thelinuxcdstore.com/index.php?cPath=25osCsid=60f8bbf1944 5ce5326bdd21b4b541864 http://easylinuxcds.com/index.php?app=ccp0ns=prodshowref=opensuse;

[opensuse-marketing] Re: Plasma Active, was: Re: [opensuse-project] future features

2011-04-12 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-04-08 Sebastian wrote: Hi *, Jos, On Monday, April 04, 2011 18:07:16 Jos Poortvliet wrote: I've received a few requests already from ppl asking what will the next openSUSE release bring. Now I know a few things being worked on, from Webpin2 to the bretzn/appstream stuff

[opensuse-marketing] Renaming of OBS - progress competition!

2011-04-08 Thread Jos Poortvliet
Hi all! I've presented the OBS rename finally to the Novell Leadership Team. They had a few questions but mostly, they just want some time to diggest the request and think about it. Next week I'll hopefully know more. Then of course we have to figure out things like trademarking etc etc etc...

[opensuse-marketing] upcoming features...

2011-04-08 Thread Jos Poortvliet
Hi marketeers, You might've seen me ask ppl for what's upcoming for openSUSE. I've created a wiki page: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Upcoming_features Please help me add to it :D I know we should have Yaloki's pet project on there, for example... (see my other mail with an

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Linux is Good for us

2011-04-06 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-04-04 Kálmán wrote: Yup, you do know we're working on that, yes? will be in the next openSUSE ;-) could you tell me more about this, please? k http://www.socialdesktop.org/bretzn/ http://news.opensuse.org/2011/01/27/first-bretzn-sprint-opensuse-app- store-on-the-horizon/

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Release specific marketing material

2011-04-06 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-03-07 Koushik wrote: Hello everyone, I was wondering if you had any marketing material specifically targeting the release, say posters saying openSUSE 11.4 arriving, March 10 or something even more general, like openSUSE 11.4 artwork, that could be used to signal the onset. I would

[opensuse-marketing] Re: money

2011-04-06 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-03-25 Jos wrote: Hi all, Despite not reading all mails here, I have a request. The USA office in Provo is out of posters flyers and that kind of stuff. Now we still have them in the EU, but shipping paper across the pond is quite insane. Yet having these materials is important:

Re: [opensuse-marketing] setting up a mailing list

2011-04-05 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-04-05 Henne wrote: Hey, On 04/05/2011 04:10 AM, Chuck Payne wrote: I didn't think asking for a tool would have cause such a headache. It doesn't if you would just make up your minds :) But apparently that's too much to ask... I'll create opensuse-ambassadors-north-america,

Re: [opensuse-marketing] setting up a mailing list

2011-04-05 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-04-04 Helen wrote: On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Henne Vogelsang hvo...@opensuse.org wrote: Please don't :) Let's just solve this. Henne - As I said in my previous reply: it seems the best thing to do is ask people to sign up to the Project list

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Gnome 3.0 / Launch Party in Manchester

2011-04-04 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-04-02 Stuart wrote: As per Bryen's email earlier I have contacted the Manchester Team at Free software UK and I am attending their launch party. But I don't get away free so I have to give a talk about openSUSE / Novell / Gnome Relationship.. Based on the fact I am a KDE User by

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Fwd: osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0

2011-04-04 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-04-01 Stuart wrote: All please see the release announcement for osCommerce 3.0 how can we combine this release whilst marketing openSUSE LAMP 11.4? I don't understand your question... what does openSUSE have to do with them? What is it? Can you explain a bit more? Stuart

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Linux is Good for us

2011-04-04 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-04-02 Kim wrote: Am 02.04.2011 08:36, schrieb Kálmán Kéménczy: snip Another interesting feedback was, that 1 click install is not that easy. They looking for an Android Market or App Store like solution (even if they have to pay for softwares - because they have to pay for

[opensuse-marketing] Re: ambassador reports

2011-04-01 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-03-15 Jos wrote: Hi boosters, snip dreaming I've heard a little bird (ok, huge one) whisper to (yell at) me that I wasn't concrete enough. So, let's remedy that. Let me give a usecase. Note that for 90% of what's needed I have already added requests in Fate, see my other mail! And

[opensuse-marketing] Re: [opensuse-boosters] ambassador program

2011-04-01 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-03-31 Jos wrote: On 2011-03-15 Henne wrote: Hey Jos, On 03/15/2011 04:10 PM, Jos Poortvliet wrote: that's what the ambassador report stuff is for, which I mailed to the Boosters team. Can you elaborate on what you expect from the Boosters? I would like to understand

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Show us your desktop!

2011-03-31 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-03-27 Kim wrote: Am 26.03.2011 21:56, schrieb Jos Poortvliet: So, about the article. It is done - but there is no way to vote on flickr, right? And facebook doesn't allow you to show the results in a widget on our news.o.o page or somewhere else... GR. How annoying

Re: [opensuse-marketing] upside down geeko logo

2011-03-31 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-03-30 Helen wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Henne Vogelsang hvo...@opensuse.org wrote: Hey, On 03/30/2011 11:16 AM, Helen South wrote: re the upside down derivative logo on the outage note - is this a Novell-sanctioned use of the logo? It's cute but is clearly

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