Re: [opensuse-marketing] Material to describe/introduce openSUSE?

2020-10-27 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Am Montag, 26. Oktober 2020, 02:52:21 CET schrieb Gerald Pfeifer: > do we have material (presentation and/or otherwise) to introduce > openSUSE to a new audience? > > Something covering "What is openSUSE?", "Why does openSUSE matter?", > "Why is openSUSE cool?", "Why do I want to care?" ... ? >

Re: [opensuse-marketing] news.o.o articles discussion

2020-09-03 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Am Donnerstag, 3. September 2020, 21:41:47 CEST schrieb Christian Boltz: > Hello, > > > >>> Are we as a project and marketing ok with people posting info on > > >>> news.o.o. as long as it's community related? > > >> > > >> I always recognized news-o-o as some magazine where anything is > > >>

Re: [opensuse-marketing] news.o.o articles discussion

2020-09-02 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Am Mittwoch, 2. September 2020, 11:25:52 CEST schrieb ddemaio: > Part of the intention to moving to the new format on news.o.o was to get > more contributions and also move aware from https://lizards.opensuse.org/ > > Are we as a project and marketing ok with people posting info on > news.o.o. as

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Matomo and new landing page

2020-07-08 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Hi Doug, Am Dienstag, 7. Juli 2020, 16:09:16 CEST schrieb ddemaio: > I just wanted to let you know I updated the wiki info > https://en.opensuse.org/Terms_of_site#Monitoring. It referred to Piwik, > which is old and is now Matomo. Thanks for that! > Anyway, www-test.opensuse.org looks like >

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Hi

2020-05-24 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Am Sonntag, 24. Mai 2020, 10:42:08 CEST schrieb Jens Maucher: > Hi, > > just want to say hello as a new Ambassador-to-be from Germany. Hope to > find here informations and support how to promote openSUSE on local > events, linux user groups and so on. > > I am also interessted in give-aways to

Re: [opensuse-marketing] [EVENTS] Upcoming JDLL 2020 in Lyon, France

2020-02-03 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Hi Sébastien! > openSUSE, with the help of Alionet, its French users community, will > have a booth here. You are all welcome to come by and say hello. I saw that a laptop is marked "TBC" at the material list. If you want to I can send you our sponsorship laptop with openSUSE logo printed in

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Re: Article for news-o-o

2020-01-24 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Hi, these are two articles, right? So we should postpone the second a few days. Cheers, vinz. Am 24. Januar 2020 09:05:15 schrieb ddemaio : HI Sebastien, If there is no comments or changes, I will plan to post it to news.o.o. on Monday. v/r Doug On 1/23/20 9:24 PM, sogal wrote: Hi all, As

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Article for news-o-o

2020-01-23 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Am Donnerstag, 23. Januar 2020, 23:10:56 CET schrieb Carl Symons: > > "We hope that this review of its advanced features" => "it's advanced" > > "its" is correct. "it's" is a contraction of "it is", not possessive. Thanks! :) vinz. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Article for news-o-o

2020-01-23 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Hi Sébastien! Thanks for taking the initiative and picking a topic from the list! The whole article is well written and the screenshots look good. The default wallpaper and theme is a good choice so new users recognize it well. > I'd like to have your remarks and comments, do not hesitate to

[opensuse-marketing] Sticker design needed

2020-01-23 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Hi all! OpenSUSE will again be represented at SCALE 18x in California this year. Mir_ppc asked if it's possible to get special stickers as merchandising giveaways. So we would need some graphics and design drafts. Is anyone interested in taking over this task? More details can be found here:

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Questions and people to interview for the future occurences of People of openSUSE

2020-01-14 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Hi sogal, > I have also started a list of people I would like to send the > interview to. Feel free to comment and add your own : > https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/question_for_people_of_opensuse That's great. I could not find something missing, but maybe that's something coming during the

[opensuse-marketing] Collecting topics for news-o-o

2020-01-14 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Hi, As talked about in last week's team meeting here's the topics collection for possible news-o-o articles: https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/marketing-topics-collection-jan2020 Please feel free to dump in things coming up to your mind. Anything is welcome! And if you want to pick something to

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Meeting Team Marketing / 2020-01-08 19:00 UTC

2020-01-08 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Hi, > For anyone not able to make it I will try to make a report. As promised here are the meeting notes including action items: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_meeting:2020-01-08 Thanks to everyone taking part! If there are any questions or things unclear with the notes please ask

[opensuse-marketing] Meeting Team Marketing / 2020-01-08 19:00 UTC

2020-01-07 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Hi there, as there were no objections against the appointment and Doug is available as well I hereby invite everyone interested to the team marketing meeting: *Date & Time* Tomorrow, January 8th at 19:00h UTC Check your local time here:

[opensuse-marketing] Reviving the marketing team

2019-12-28 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Hi all! Watching openSUSE from being not involved in development I get the impression that it keeps acting like a poker player: Having a full deck of cards at hand including four aces but not showing to anyone just because the position of his sun glasses could… possibly… eventually… under

Re: [opensuse-marketing] help the openSUSE Weekly News by translating

2019-10-25 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Am Donnerstag, 24. Oktober 2019, 19:25:43 CEST schrieb Mr Seihza: > Hi, i would like to help the openSUSE Weekly News by translating Hi, thanks for your offer - but there are no weekly news afaik. What exactly do you mean? Regards, vinz. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [opensuse-xfce] Removing 42.3 Repo

2019-07-03 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Am Mittwoch, 3. Juli 2019, 14:33:22 CEST schrieb Manfred Hollstein: > while this is true in principle, I see it a little different... > Background: I have to maintain quite a few desktops, workstations, .. > here (remotely), which I don't want to migrate to 15.0... due to several > reasons: 15.0

Re: [opensuse-xfce] Removing 42.3 Repo

2019-07-03 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Am Mittwoch, 3. Juli 2019, 11:54:01 CEST schrieb Marcel Kühlhorn: > Hi all, > > since 42.3 officially reached its end of life on Monday I'll go ahead > and remove the Repo from the xfce Project tomorrow unless there are any > objections. No objections at all, even more as X11:xfce is the

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Some ideas about People of openSUSE

2019-05-31 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Hi, first of all, thanks for reviving this thing! I'd really appreciate more community news on news-o-o instead of "just" release notes. > 1. Change the name of the project to "Humans of openSUSE". That sounds good to me. Another approach would be pointing out more to all the community members.

Re: [opensuse-marketing] DRAFT: Leap 15.1 Release Announcement

2019-04-30 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Am Tue, 30 Apr 2019 14:08:03 +0200 schrieb ddemaio : > I'm also looking for a quote from someone. Maybe one from the > community or Tuxedo Computers or Linode. I added some quote to the Etherpad. If you need more please let me know. Regards, vinz. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Social Media Launch Plan for openSUSE Leap 15.1

2019-04-29 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Am Thu, 25 Apr 2019 12:25:35 +0200 schrieb ddemaio : > If > you would like to help translate or publish some of them, it would be > highly appreciated. You can find the plan in the English section on > https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Social_media_launch_plan German translations added. Two

Re: [opensuse-marketing] [Idea] What can I do for openSUSE

2019-03-21 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Am Donnerstag, 21. März 2019, 12:43:38 CET schrieb Dan Čermák: > This reminded me of the following page that Fedora provides: > https://whatcanidoforfedora.org/ Speaking of Fedora's activities I really like their magazine: https://fedoramagazine.org Maybe we could start something similar?

Re: [opensuse-xfce] xscreensaver / xfce4-screensaver

2019-03-12 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Am Dienstag, 12. März 2019, 00:06:03 CET schrieb Maurizio Galli: > xfce4-screensaver is still and it's unsuitable for production due to > some bugs. Currently xscreensaver is a better option but it will be > replaced by xfce4-screensaver when it's ready. I see. Let's hope Sean will fix them soon

[opensuse-xfce] Remmina / Tiger VNC

2019-03-11 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Hi again, looking at a quite regular oS Xfce installation (TW, basic pattern, Xfce pattern) I got both Tiger VNC and Remmina preinstalled. Some thoughts on that: 1. I don't know either of them in depth but would suspect some duplication in functionality there. 2. Tiger VNC looks quite "old

[opensuse-xfce] xscreensaver / xfce4-screensaver

2019-03-11 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Hi there, I got two questions: First, xfce4-screensaver is in X11:xfce but not yet in Leap 15.1 or even TW. Why is that and what needs to be done to fix this? Second, the Xfce pattern recommends xscreensaver. Maybe we could replace this with xfce4-screensaver? Regards, vinz. -- To

Re: [opensuse-xfce] Cleanup and changes in Xfce Pattern for Tumbleweed and Leap 15.1

2019-02-26 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Am Dienstag, 26. Februar 2019, 14:49:57 CET schrieb Liam Proven: > Any IRC client offers a subset of the functionality of Pidgin, which is > a perfectly good IRC client and has been my go-to one since I stopped > using Win 9x. So if the base install should include a chat client, which > I would

Re: [opensuse-xfce] Cleanup and changes in Xfce Pattern for Tumbleweed and Leap 15.1

2019-02-25 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Hi, > The standard Xfce pattern should be B). For a minimal Xfce desktop > users can use the xfce_basis pattern package. I see. As throwing Pidgin out b/c of Matrix, Telegram etc. would also apply to Hexchat and as we (currently) have no disk space shortage to keep an eye on so I'd vote for

Re: [opensuse-xfce] Cleanup and changes in Xfce Pattern for Tumbleweed and Leap 15.1

2019-02-25 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Am Montag, 25. Februar 2019, 14:01:04 CET schrieb Maurizio Galli: > Ok noted and like I said I will leave this open for others to chip in. > Unless the decision affected multiple users, I still prefer not to > install it by default. In that scenario, just remember that "zypper > in pidgin" will

[opensuse-marketing] TW reviews on news.o.o?

2019-02-15 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Hi, As I just went through dimstar's review of Tumbleweed I thought it would be good to have this at some "official" place as well. That would communicate the awesome work which is done in TW and maybe attract more users, contributors and developers. With RSS importing this could be even done

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE social account (was : openSUSE on Mastodon)

2019-02-04 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Hi Jimmy, thanks for your advices! > Here are my remarks on > https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Social_media_contacts > > French openSUSE fans: Last post was on 22 February 2016: => if it > becomes a FB group, maybe it will revive? Might be, though people would have to join in the first place.

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE social account (was : openSUSE on Mastodon)

2019-01-15 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Hi Sogal, > Talking about social accounts, if I don't make any mistake, there is no > openSUSE account on Diaspora*. Should we start one ? If you think it is > relevant, I will be, of course, volunteer, to animate and feed it. I think it's up to you. If you have the time and want to curate the

[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE on Mastodon

2019-01-09 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Hi everyone, I created an account for openSUSE at the federated social network Mastodon. You can find it at https://fosstodon.org/@opensuse *What is Mastodon* Mastodon is a distributed, federated social network that forms part of the Fediverse, an interconnected and decentralized network of

Re: [opensuse-xfce] New xfce default look coming soon in Tumbleweed

2018-12-13 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Hi, first of all: thanks for pushing this forward and giving Xfce on openSUSE a more polished look out of the box! Just one small thing I came across: > * xfwm4 theme: Mint-Y-Dark-Teal The window names in your screenshot have quite a big font size. It is quite close to the border's edge. Is

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Linuxday Dornbirn/Austria

2018-09-12 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Am 12.09.18 um 21:26 schrieb Richard Brown: > Dimitar, you make a good point, you do so much for us I'd really like > to see if there is something I can do about hardware for your booths. > > I'm going to talk to Doug and see if theres any way SUSE can help. > > I can't promise anything -

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Linuxday Dornbirn/Austria

2018-09-12 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Am 12.09.18 um 15:00 schrieb Marcel Kühlhorn: > Thanks for the offer, I already have an older Dell Notebook as Demo > machine, but if you want to send yours anyways we could have one > running Tumbleweed and one Leap :) That's what I was thinking of. Showing openSUSE's strength on both older and

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Linuxday Dornbirn/Austria

2018-09-12 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Am 12.09.18 um 15:32 schrieb Dimitar Zahariev: > My name is Dimitar and together with few other enthusiasts we are > running openSUSE info booths on various events. Currently we cover > Bulgaria, Albania, and Serbia (in fact, tomorrow we are traveling to > Serbia for BalCCon2k18). > > I think it

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Linuxday Dornbirn/Austria

2018-09-12 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
>> Does anyone know who will be running the booth? >> > Hey Vinz, > > That'd be me :D Hi, cool! I'm keeping this topic on-list so that other people running booths somewhere get the info as well. As said, we'll bring a laptop running oS. How is your booth equipped? Do you also want to have a

[opensuse-marketing] Linuxday Dornbirn/Austria

2018-09-12 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Hi there, I just saw that there will be an openSUSE booth at Linuxday Dornbirn in Austria on October 13th. My company TUXEDO Computers will be there as well and we will have at least one laptop running openSUSE available. So I'd like to get in touch with the oS booth staff in advance. Does

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Getting Started with Linux Special Edition #32

2018-09-07 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Am 07.09.2018 um 18:44 schrieb Jimmy PIERRE: > http://www.sparkhaus-shop.com/eu/magazines/special-editions/eh32067.html > > It looks like the copycat of openSUSE Leap 42.3. I guess it's a follow-up to this one: https://news.opensuse.org/2017/10/11/special-edition-highlights-opensuse-kde/ Same

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Introduction

2018-07-26 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
Hi Beau, this all sounds interesting to me as well. Maybe you could go ahead and put up your ideas at some collaboration doc? This way we could get this whole thing pushed forward. Best regards, vinz. Am 26. Juli 2018 05:12:08 MESZ schrieb Beau Mathieson : >Greetings Doug, > >Indeed, perhaps