Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is openSUSE and who does it target?

2010-07-27 Thread Will Stephenson
On Tuesday 27 July 2010 23:40:33 R. Tyler Ballance wrote: > Additionally, Ubuntu > really stresses a GNOME-centric desktop, which means one of openSUSE's core > strength's (a great KDE setup) is moot. Do I read that correctly as "one of our core strengths is irrelevant and to compete with Ubuntu,

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is openSUSE and who does it target?

2010-07-27 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 02:40:33PM -0700, R. Tyler Ballance wrote: > p.s. when is Novell hiring a replacement for Zonker :P There was/is an open position for quite some time now. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Howto announce conferences, tradeshows etc.?

2010-07-27 Thread Rajko M.
On Tuesday 27 July 2010 06:40:37 Andreas Jaeger wrote: > > http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_events > > This makes it possible to report on the events over the last year in a > > yearly report or something... I would recommend to make plan how to move old years to Archive: , like: http:

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is openSUSE and who does it target?

2010-07-27 Thread Bryen M. Yunashko
On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 14:40 -0700, R. Tyler Ballance wrote: > This morning, prior to the meeting in #opensuse-marketing, Bryen, Matt, some > others and myself were talking about some of openSUSE's messaging; a > discussion > I feel should be taken onto the mailing list :) > > > The original ques

[opensuse-marketing] What is openSUSE and who does it target?

2010-07-27 Thread R. Tyler Ballance
This morning, prior to the meeting in #opensuse-marketing, Bryen, Matt, some others and myself were talking about some of openSUSE's messaging; a discussion I feel should be taken onto the mailing list :) The original question I posed was: Who is openSUSE competing with? To which Bryen rep

[opensuse-marketing] Just playing with wordle.net

2010-07-27 Thread Jimmy Pierre
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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Ambassador Meeting at openSUSE Conference?

2010-07-27 Thread Peter Michl
Am Dienstag, 27. Juli 2010 14:48:54 schrieb Matt Hayes: > On 7/27/2010 8:45 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > > At the end of October, we have the openSUSE Conference > > http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference . The Call for Papers ends on > > the 31st of July. > > > > If enough people come, I'd lik

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Welcome to Ambassador Marco Lucato, Italy

2010-07-27 Thread Alexjan Carraturo
2010/7/27 Matt Hayes : > On 7/27/2010 5:34 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > Welcome Marco! > > -matt > -- Welcome Marco from another Italian Ambassador... Happy to have you with us -- Alexjan Carraturo admin of Free Software Users Group Italia http://www.fsu

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Sending out DVD's in India and the rest of the world!

2010-07-27 Thread Sankar P
>>> On 7/27/2010 at 07:59 PM, in message <1280240963.3085.281.ca...@linux-vpc2.site>, "Bryen M. Yunashko" wrote: > On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 14:02 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 July 2010 13:58:21 Jos Poortvliet wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Me and some others received a request f

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Sending out DVD's in India and the rest of the world!

2010-07-27 Thread Bryen M. Yunashko
On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 14:02 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > On Tuesday 27 July 2010 13:58:21 Jos Poortvliet wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Me and some others received a request from Remya Reghu to send him a > > DVD with openSUSE. Now I'd love to do that, but afaik nothing is > > organized for this and

[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE @ FrOSCon needs you

2010-07-27 Thread Jan Weber
Hi all, as you might know on August 21st and 22nd the FrOSCon [0] takes place in St. Augustin (near Bonn) in Germany. We have a confirmed booth at FrOSCon and I am now looking for volunteers to man the booth! So if you have some free time and want to help promoting openSUSE at FrOSCon, drop me a

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Welcome to our first Greek Ambassador: Stathis Iosifidis

2010-07-27 Thread Bryen M. Yunashko
On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 15:09 +0200, Jos Poortvliet wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Raul wrote: > > Welcome Stathis! \o/ > > +1 > > Interesting stories, these Ambasador introductions, keep on joining > the team people! ;-) Likewise, a +1000 to welcoming each and everyone of you to our

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Welcome to our first Greek Ambassador: Stathis Iosifidis

2010-07-27 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Raul wrote: > Welcome Stathis! \o/ +1 Interesting stories, these Ambasador introductions, keep on joining the team people! ;-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+h...@opensu

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Sending out DVD's in India and the rest of the world!

2010-07-27 Thread Neel K
On 07/27/2010 05:28 PM, Jos Poortvliet wrote: > Hi all, > > Me and some others received a request from Remya Reghu to send him a > DVD with openSUSE. Now I'd love to do that, but afaik nothing is > organized for this and sending it from the Netherlands is a wee bit > expensive. > > So I have two qu

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Sending out DVD's in India and the rest of the world!

2010-07-27 Thread Sankar P
Yes. If the person is in India, I can get it distributed. Ask her to ping me (psan...@novell.com) Sankar >>> On 7/27/2010 at 06:03 PM, in message <1280233996.787.85.ca...@bonsai.teegee.firma>, "S.Kemter" wrote: > Hi Jos, > > psankar made the offer to distribute the media in India. So connect

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Sending out DVD's in India and the rest of the world!

2010-07-27 Thread Neel K
On 07/27/2010 05:28 PM, Jos Poortvliet wrote: > Hi all, > > Me and some others received a request from Remya Reghu to send him a > DVD with openSUSE. Now I'd love to do that, but afaik nothing is > organized for this and sending it from the Netherlands is a wee bit > expensive. > > So I have two qu

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Ambassador Meeting at openSUSE Conference?

2010-07-27 Thread Matt Hayes
On 7/27/2010 8:45 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > At the end of October, we have the openSUSE Conference > http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference . The Call for Papers ends on the > 31st of July. > > If enough people come, I'd like to organize a meeting of ambassadors. > Who from the ambassador

[opensuse-marketing] Ambassador Meeting at openSUSE Conference?

2010-07-27 Thread Andreas Jaeger
At the end of October, we have the openSUSE Conference http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference . The Call for Papers ends on the 31st of July. If enough people come, I'd like to organize a meeting of ambassadors. Who from the ambassador team plans to come and visit the conference? Do you h

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Sending out DVD's in India and the rest of the world!

2010-07-27 Thread S.Kemter
Hi Jos, psankar made the offer to distribute the media in India. So connect the guy to him. > Hi all, > > Me and some others received a request from Remya Reghu to send him a > DVD with openSUSE. Now I'd love to do that, but afaik nothing is > organized for this and sending it from the Netherlan

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Welcome to our first Greek Ambassador: Stathis Iosifidis

2010-07-27 Thread Raul
Welcome Stathis! \o/ On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 07:21, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > Team, > > I've just added Stathis as first Greece ambassador to our list of ambassadors > at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_list > > Please give him a warm welcome! You've seen some emails from him already on

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Welcome to Ambassador Marco Lucato, Italy

2010-07-27 Thread Matt Hayes
On 7/27/2010 5:34 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > Team, > > I'd like all of you to give a friendly welcome to Marco. I let him > introduce himself with the answers to the questions I gave him... > > He also has a question for all of us on writing an article (see below), > Andreas > > -

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Sending out DVD's in India and the rest of the world!

2010-07-27 Thread Andreas Jaeger
On Tuesday 27 July 2010 13:58:21 Jos Poortvliet wrote: > Hi all, > > Me and some others received a request from Remya Reghu to send him a > DVD with openSUSE. Now I'd love to do that, but afaik nothing is > organized for this and sending it from the Netherlands is a wee bit > expensive. > > So I

[opensuse-marketing] Sending out DVD's in India and the rest of the world!

2010-07-27 Thread Jos Poortvliet
Hi all, Me and some others received a request from Remya Reghu to send him a DVD with openSUSE. Now I'd love to do that, but afaik nothing is organized for this and sending it from the Netherlands is a wee bit expensive. So I have two questions for yah ambasadors: - Does the Indian Ambassador tea

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Howto announce conferences, tradeshows etc.?

2010-07-27 Thread Andreas Jaeger
On Tuesday 27 July 2010 13:13:49 Jos Poortvliet wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > > I just mailed something to the project mailing list on how to announce > > team meetings and have a related topic for the marketing team as well: > > How to announce conferences, tr

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Howto announce conferences, tradeshows etc.?

2010-07-27 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > I just mailed something to the project mailing list on how to announce team > meetings and have a related topic for the marketing team as well: > How to announce conferences, tradeshows and other events? > > Here's a first suggested howto -

[opensuse-marketing] Welcome to our first Greek Ambassador: Stathis Iosifidis

2010-07-27 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Team, I've just added Stathis as first Greece ambassador to our list of ambassadors at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_list Please give him a warm welcome! You've seen some emails from him already on the list and I hope that the short interview below gives some additional backgroun

[opensuse-marketing] Howto announce conferences, tradeshows etc.?

2010-07-27 Thread Andreas Jaeger
I just mailed something to the project mailing list on how to announce team meetings and have a related topic for the marketing team as well: How to announce conferences, tradeshows and other events? Here's a first suggested howto - what are your thoughts on this? = Trade Shows and Conferences =

[opensuse-marketing] Welcome to Ambassador Marco Lucato, Italy

2010-07-27 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Team, I'd like all of you to give a friendly welcome to Marco. I let him introduce himself with the answers to the questions I gave him... He also has a question for all of us on writing an article (see below), Andreas ---