Re: [opensuse-marketing] Draft msg from Attachmate re: openSUSE 11.4 release

2011-03-10 Thread R. Tyler Croy
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Michael Miller wrote: > OK - take a look at this version: > > "On behalf of Attachmate, I???d like to congratulate the entire openSUSE > community on the release of openSUSE 11.4. We???re excited to see the results > of this highly collaborative project???the new LibreOffi

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Twitter

2011-03-10 Thread Manu Gupta
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/opensuse-114-suse-linux-revitalized/8464 http://www.techworld.com.au/article/379481/opensuse_11_4_now_available_gnome_3_preview/ On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 22:59 +0100, Javier Llorente wrote: > El Jueves, 10 de Marzo de 2011 15:46:12 Chuck Payne escribió: > > Guy

RE: [opensuse-marketing] Draft msg from Attachmate re: openSUSE 11.4 release

2011-03-10 Thread Michael Miller
OK - take a look at this version: "On behalf of Attachmate, I’d like to congratulate the entire openSUSE community on the release of openSUSE 11.4. We’re excited to see the results of this highly collaborative project—the new LibreOffice, the latest GUI desktop versions, and numerous under-the-

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Twitter

2011-03-10 Thread Javier Llorente
El Jueves, 10 de Marzo de 2011 15:46:12 Chuck Payne escribió: > Guys, > > Remember if you are going to twit about the release, or any new about > openSUSE, to use the hash tag > > #opensuse or #openSUSE > > So that we can track it. Don't forget about identi.ca (which is based on free software b

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Twitter

2011-03-10 Thread Manu Gupta
Extremely sorry guys but this need to be done hope you all dont mind my ten tweets and corporate http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2309277 On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 09:46 -0500, Chuck Payne wrote: > Guys, > > Remember if you are going to twit about the release, or any new about > openSUSE, to u

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Twitter

2011-03-10 Thread Manu Gupta
I am not sure if this working or not http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=in% 2F0_0_s_4_0_t&ct3=MAA4AEgEUABgAWoCaW4&usg=AFQjCNG0HzfVr8Ef_s85l77Yp8fkygTFWQ&did=4cd8b674d816605b&sig2=II53rIwjfWTKvp3XSDL_Ng&cid=17593870401132&ei=2yx5TdCpIYzQcceHlKcB&rt=STORY&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftechnolog

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Twitter

2011-03-10 Thread Manu Gupta
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/newss/7316/1/ On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 09:46 -0500, Chuck Payne wrote: > Guys, > > Remember if you are going to twit about the release, or any new about > openSUSE, to use the hash tag > > #opensuse or #openSUSE > > So that we can track it. > > Thanks, > >

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Twitter

2011-03-10 Thread Manu Gupta
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/g1fdb/the_new_opensuse_114_gives_an_option_of_rolling/ On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 09:46 -0500, Chuck Payne wrote: > Guys, > > Remember if you are going to twit about the release, or any new about > openSUSE, to use the hash tag > > #opensuse or #openSUSE >

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Twitter

2011-03-10 Thread Chuck Payne
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Manu Gupta wrote: > Hi Guys > > Thanks a lot Chuck YOU ROCK :D. Great Leadership > > I just had an idea, right now we are tweeting from our internal sources > and we need to tweet external sources too.. > > I will be posting a few links soon as and when they come p

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Twitter

2011-03-10 Thread Manu Gupta
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/newss/7316/1/ On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 09:46 -0500, Chuck Payne wrote: > Guys, > > Remember if you are going to twit about the release, or any new about > openSUSE, to use the hash tag > > #opensuse or #openSUSE > > So that we can track it. > > Thanks, >

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Twitter

2011-03-10 Thread Manu Gupta
Hi Guys Thanks a lot Chuck YOU ROCK :D. Great Leadership I just had an idea, right now we are tweeting from our internal sources and we need to tweet external sources too.. I will be posting a few links soon as and when they come please tweet it across and if you can just retweet, you can alwa

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Question from Microsoft geeks on my FB page

2011-03-10 Thread Jimmy PIERRE
On 10 March 2011 19:44, Jimmy PIERRE wrote: > > > On 10 March 2011 19:36, Tony Su wrote: >> >> Hi guys, >> Jos and I had just this discussion with GregH in Germany. >> >> Greg reports that he has installed openSUSE 11.4 into Hyper-V without >> any problems (at least that he saw). >> >> Additional

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Question from Microsoft geeks on my FB page

2011-03-10 Thread Tony Su
A fine line in terminology, When images are created for distribution, they're often then referred to as "appliances" particularly when they're pre-configured for some purpose (eg a LAMP stack). For example, 3 years ago I created a VMware appliance using 11.1/GroundworkOpensource/Nagios bundled wit

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Question from Microsoft geeks on my FB page

2011-03-10 Thread Tony Su
Hi guys, Jos and I had just this discussion with GregH in Germany. Greg reports that he has installed openSUSE 11.4 into Hyper-V without any problems (at least that he saw). Additionally, it looks like openSUSE will automatically install Hyper-V peripheral drivers automatically when available, th

RE: [opensuse-marketing] Draft msg from Attachmate re: openSUSE 11.4 release

2011-03-10 Thread Michael Miller
Hi Bryen, I agree and will work in some focus on the collaboration/community aspect. MM -Original Message- From: Bryen M Yunashko [mailto:susero...@bryen.com] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 9:59 AM To: Michael Miller Cc: opensuse-marketing@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse-marketing] D

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Draft msg from Attachmate re: openSUSE 11.4 release

2011-03-10 Thread Bryen M Yunashko
On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 09:50 -0800, Michael Miller wrote: > Hi all > Thanks again to Bryen for this idea. > > Here's a draft of what Attachmate would like to post on Monday morning. We'll > place it in our news section with a link on the attachmate.com homepage. > > I've purposefully kept it ver

[opensuse-marketing] Draft msg from Attachmate re: openSUSE 11.4 release

2011-03-10 Thread Michael Miller
Hi all Thanks again to Bryen for this idea. Here's a draft of what Attachmate would like to post on Monday morning. We'll place it in our news section with a link on the attachmate.com homepage. I've purposefully kept it very simple and direct to limit the potential for over-analysis and mis-i

[opensuse-marketing] Re: 11.4 announcement

2011-03-10 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-03-09 Kostas wrote: > 2011/3/9 Jos Poortvliet : > > On 2011-03-09 Kostas wrote: > >> Ηι Jos > >> Do you happen to have the 11.4 announcement to send to me a few > >> hours back in order to translate it in Greek? > >> Kostas > > > > I will start working on the announcement now, the feature

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Update In the press page, please

2011-03-10 Thread Kim Leyendecker
Am 10.03.2011 17:05, schrieb Andreas Jaeger: Please collect all press mentions of openSUSE 11.4 at: http://en.opensuse.org/In_the_press Thanks, Andreas Pro-Linux added, needs confirmation. thanks -- Kim Leyendecker (kimleyendec...@hotmail.de) openSUSE Ambassador http://www.suseusers.de.vu pow

[opensuse-marketing] Update In the press page, please

2011-03-10 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Please collect all press mentions of openSUSE 11.4 at: http://en.opensuse.org/In_the_press Thanks, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)

[opensuse-marketing] One last favor

2011-03-10 Thread Chuck Payne
Guys, This will be my last cross post. I like to ask one last favor if you can please visit this link and vote for it. http://digg.com/news/technology/opensuse_11_4_release FYI, someone has post it on reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/duplicates/g17up/opensuse_114_is_released/ Also, I w

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Question from Microsoft geeks on my FB page

2011-03-10 Thread Matt Hayes
On 3/10/2011 9:15 AM, Jimmy Pierre wrote: Does Hyper V support openSUSE 11.4 natively? > > What would you answer? I run openSUSE on Virtual box, VMware, Xen, really > not 100% sure. However, SLED/SLES are supported natively! > > Tricky hey? > Best, > Jimmy > > PS Have you started tweeting y

[opensuse-marketing] Twitter

2011-03-10 Thread Chuck Payne
Guys, Remember if you are going to twit about the release, or any new about openSUSE, to use the hash tag #opensuse or #openSUSE So that we can track it. Thanks, Pup -- (678) 636-9678 - Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. -

[opensuse-marketing] Meetings

2011-03-10 Thread Sascha Manns
Hello Mates, some questions reaches the Weekly News Team about missing Informations about Meetings. In the past we had introduced that a Meetings comes and after that we published the Link to the last Transcript. Sadly is looks like not every Meeting is added to the calendar, so that means tha

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Question from Microsoft geeks on my FB page

2011-03-10 Thread Andreas Jaeger
On Thursday, March 10, 2011 15:15:39 Jimmy Pierre wrote: > >>>Does Hyper V support openSUSE 11.4 natively? > > What would you answer? I run openSUSE on Virtual box, VMware, Xen, really > not 100% sure. However, SLED/SLES are supported natively! Check what this one says about it: http://en.opensus

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Delayed Launch

2011-03-10 Thread Ricardo Chung
On Thursday, March 10, 2011 09:57:35 AM Stuart Tanner wrote: > judging by the release announcement at 14:49 GMT i guess it slipped to > 15:00 GMT.. > > On Thursday 10 Mar 2011 12:40:48 Manu Gupta wrote: > > It is 1500 CET as far as I believe > > > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 6:01 PM, wrote: > > >

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Question from Microsoft geeks on my FB page

2011-03-10 Thread Ricardo Chung
On Thursday, March 10, 2011 09:15:39 AM Jimmy Pierre wrote: > >>>Does Hyper V support openSUSE 11.4 natively? > > What would you answer? I run openSUSE on Virtual box, VMware, Xen, really > not 100% sure. However, SLED/SLES are supported natively! > > Tricky hey? > Best, > Jimmy > > PS Have you

[opensuse-marketing] Question from Microsoft geeks on my FB page

2011-03-10 Thread Jimmy Pierre
>>>Does Hyper V support openSUSE 11.4 natively? What would you answer? I run openSUSE on Virtual box, VMware, Xen, really not 100% sure. However, SLED/SLES are supported natively! Tricky hey? Best, Jimmy PS Have you started tweeting yet? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr..

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Help promote the release on Free Software Daily

2011-03-10 Thread Henne Vogelsang
Hey, On 03/10/2011 04:01 PM, Chuck Payne wrote: > I told Henne' great announce It wasn't me! I just polished it :) The kudos go to Jos who did the initial draft and especially to everybody who has so relentlessly worked on the Product_highlights page in the last couple of weeks. This collection

[opensuse-marketing] Help promote the release on Free Software Daily

2011-03-10 Thread Chuck Payne
Guy, I told Henne' great announce and posted on the Free Software Daily to help get us more coverage. Can you guys please vote for it, it a digg like system so that we can get on the front page. http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/openSUSE_11_4_A_New_Hallmark_for_the_openSUSE_Project -- (678) 636-

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Delayed Launch

2011-03-10 Thread Stuart Tanner
judging by the release announcement at 14:49 GMT i guess it slipped to 15:00 GMT.. On Thursday 10 Mar 2011 12:40:48 Manu Gupta wrote: > It is 1500 CET as far as I believe > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 6:01 PM, wrote: > > I had planned a launch party for the moment of launch at 12pm gmt only to >

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Change your profile picture on Facebook

2011-03-10 Thread Carlos Ribeiro
pretty nice idea Chuck Done, Em Qua, 2011-03-09 às 08:53 -0500, Chuck Payne escreveu: > Guys, > > This is a last minute thought, that I think will help promote the > release on Facebook. > > With tomorrow release of openSUSE 11.4, I am asking all members on > Facebook to change their profile

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Need some quick graphics

2011-03-10 Thread Ricardo Chung
On Thursday, March 10, 2011 08:37:18 AM jdd wrote: > Le 10/03/2011 13:32, Pieter De Decker a écrit : > >> Could we have the scribus original, for translation purpose? > > > > Whoops, I meant to upload them but I forgot... you can get the sources > > here: http://www.box.net/shared/ds2j53004d > >

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Need some quick graphics

2011-03-10 Thread jdd
Le 10/03/2011 13:32, Pieter De Decker a écrit : >> Could we have the scribus original, for translation purpose? > > Whoops, I meant to upload them but I forgot... you can get the sources here: > http://www.box.net/shared/ds2j53004d thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.dailymotion.com/

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Delayed Launch

2011-03-10 Thread Manu Gupta
It is 1500 CET as far as I believe On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 6:01 PM, wrote: > I had planned a launch party for the moment of launch at 12pm gmt only to be > told at 11:45 the launch was delayed by 2 hours. > > As it happens nobody responded to my invitations anyway but even so its > frustrating

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Change your profile picture on Facebook

2011-03-10 Thread Kim Leyendecker
Am 09.03.2011 19:27, schrieb Chuck Payne: Here is mine http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=10353769520 All are welcome to add me. dito -- Kim Leyendecker (kimleyendec...@hotmail.de) openSUSE Ambassador http://www.suseusers.de.vu powered by openSUSE 11.4 RC2 | KDE 4.6 | Kernel-de

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Need some quick graphics

2011-03-10 Thread Pieter De Decker
> Could we have the scribus original, for translation purpose? Whoops, I meant to upload them but I forgot... you can get the sources here: http://www.box.net/shared/ds2j53004d The downside to this approach is that it's not easy to translate the slogans to other languages. For every language, fiv

[opensuse-marketing] Delayed Launch

2011-03-10 Thread stuart
I had planned a launch party for the moment of launch at 12pm gmt only to be told at 11:45 the launch was delayed by 2 hours. As it happens nobody responded to my invitations anyway but even so its frustrating. There was no announcement in any of the lists I take only irc about the 2 hour del

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Need some quick graphics

2011-03-10 Thread jdd
Le 10/03/2011 12:07, Pieter De Decker a écrit : > Alright, A3 dimensions it is. I used Scribus to create the graphics. > It does have an SVG export option, but it produces weird transparent > borders. So instead I've exported to PNG at 90 dpi. > > Download the graphics here: > http://www.box.net/s

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Need some quick graphics

2011-03-10 Thread Pieter De Decker
Alright, A3 dimensions it is. I used Scribus to create the graphics. It does have an SVG export option, but it produces weird transparent borders. So instead I've exported to PNG at 90 dpi. Download the graphics here: http://www.box.net/shared/c04iezu29j They're a little too big for the wiki (max

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Clarifying our statement on LibreOffice

2011-03-10 Thread Manu Gupta
Petr I have not ever seen Canonical displaying their shares publicly that does saves them a lot from competition. But thats my opinion. Also, if an openSUSE Foundation maybe things will change regarding Codecs and free stuff I am not sure.. On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Pieter De Decker wrot

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Clarifying our statement on LibreOffice

2011-03-10 Thread Pieter De Decker
> I noticed that during the install openoffice.org is mentioned often > and repeatedly in the slides... I reported a related bug after testing openSUSE 11.4 RC2. "Office.desktop still uses the OpenOffice.org icon instead of the LibreOffice icon" https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675222

[opensuse-marketing] Re: [opensuse-factory] 11.5 vs. 12.0

2011-03-10 Thread Vincent Untz
Le lundi 07 mars 2011, à 19:37 +0100, Kim Leyendecker a écrit : > What´s the technology way we want do for the 11.4 successor? [...] > * KDE 4.x and GNOME 2.x _and_ GNOME 3.x I don't think the GNOME team has planned to have both GNOME versions. If that's something people want to see happen, please