When posting to the Facebook pages please write a short introduction
before posting your link.
Does someone have an auto-feed set up from News?
Auto postings or bare links look very bad on facebook and do not
encourage sharing and discussion.
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I used a very generic idea about the profile pic for the holidays. I
tried identifying openSUSE through the lemon green and the seasonal
image through the snowflake and the red at the bottom. Hopefully you
like it.
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h414/anditosan/holidays.png
It fits
I would like to read it...
What's the link ?? I don't remember... It was long time ago!! ;)
The original text is here -
http://piratepad.net/POwdpAKsyH
it's probably getting a little bit out-of-date in places now.
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On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Victor hck correo...@gmail.com wrote:
Thnx...
And here the Spanish translation!!
- http://piratepad.net/9PgxpcN27v
That's truly awesome. It would be nice to have the translators' names
with it too, they should be credited for their work.
Jos sent it to
Ages ago we wrote this article on how to participate (especially for
non-coders). It's not finished yet. I'd been thinking of developing
each section into a full length short article for a magazine series
but never had the time to do anything with it.
Given the current discussion on new user
Do you think we should keep on updating wiki of all the pirate pad
links we have.
Regards
Manu
I think it was agreed that Piratepad for various reasons is less than
ideal - I just used it because it's convenient.
Jos took care of the OBS article a while back, finalized it as office
document,
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Jos Poortvliet j...@opensuse.org wrote:
At the openSUSE Conference we have a 'specia' track about the effects of
modern Media on our life - think about the risks of not owning your data in
the cloud (and what is done against that by awesome people building Free
Starting some sort of article
http://piratepad.net/iIojlDBIJa
cheers
Helen
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Jos Poortvliet j...@opensuse.org wrote:
Heya folks,
I've been going over our old todo lists for conferences and such to make a
short 'todo' for the openSUSE Conf marketing.
One sentence? That's a big ask :)
It simply works, beautifully.
I'm writing this from 12.2 KDE Live CD. Not trusting Windows with my
internet banking and wanting to take the latest release for a spin, I
downloaded from my local mirror. I think it took about 15 minutes or
so while I made a cup
Who tested openSUSE 12.2 RC2 and can tell one sentence why you are so
happy about openSUSE 12.2?
openSUSE 12.2 will be released in 8 days and we would like to know
your good thoughts.
Thanks in advance,
Izabel Valverde
Haven't had a chance to test it yet... downloading as we speak!
I'm
Dear all,
I read the wiki pages regarding marketing and strategy. Something
remains not clear to me: how to we proceed at openSUSE to turn
strategy definition and market share analysis into products and
features?
Please, is there some place in which I can find this?
Thanks
Best regards
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr)
iefstath...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Something that AJ always says (and not only AJ).
It's openSUSE. Even if o is the first letter of new sentence.
Not Opensuse or OpenSUSE.
Absolutely right mate, but we usually save the
I'm sorry to hear this jdd but know how important families are, that's
also why I only contribute occasionally.
I hope we might 'see' you on the lists sometime too. It's always nice
to hear about things people have done locally too.
all the best,
Helen
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 6:49 PM, jdd
HI Alexandre,
this is probably a good place to start -
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Marketing
As well as this list, you might also want to lurk on the Project list
to get an overview of goings-on.
You can also find some folk hanging out on IRC.
What are your areas of interest and expertise?
we were discussing the viability/value of, say, leaving a handful with
the local University library, which doesn't really qualify as an event.
snip
I don't have any 11.4 DVDs handy, but IIRC we had Linux for Open Minds
on the front of that one - maybe it's enough to do that again?
(I
We should start with the artwork-discussion for 12.2 directly after the
release of 12.1. @Helen, would you volunteer to help me to set this up and
make it a good productive thing? That would help me a lot :-)
Thank you for sharing you thoughts, you hit the point!
Robert
Robert, I'd be
If you or someone feels like doing it, I'd help out *a bit* but you probably
have to be ready to do most of the work on this yourselves. Not that it's such
a HUGE amount but I find many people simply don't have the balls to finish
something like this ;-)
that's if balls are 'hours in the
Hi folks!
I'm just putting the final touches on an article about contributing
(yes that same one I started aeons ago) and need a quote from someone
about TRANSLATING for open source projects.
If you've done any kind of work with translating news, wikis, and so
on, please share. The aim is to
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 out 1 full page advertisement in his newspaper which costs
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:15 AM, Will Stephenson wstephen...@suse.de wrote:
At LinuxTag I was challenged by a user to say 'why openSUSE over Kubuntu?' and
had a think about a better answer than 'our KDE is better'. The answer I gave
him was that openSUSE is a project which plays nicer with
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/photostream/
Oh very cool. I really like the aesthetic - it's such a departure
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Jos Poortvliet j...@opensuse.org wrote:
But let's wait a bit until the location is announced - one of the
options (which I hope turns out to be possible) would offer
opportunities for an entirely different and cooler conference slogan :D
That makes sense.
I have an idea for a background of text (something like the green on
black Matrix code, but horizontal) with rwx repeated, and openSUSE
Conference 2011 in large text. A more meaningful printout of
permissions for files could be interesting.
Or a retro word arrangement like this - these are some
I followed these two links and couldn't see any poster :-(
the wiki link give an error for the poster image, and I do not understand
anything at the gitorious page. I just have a list of commits, how do I find
posters from that?
i need sources for translation :-)
thanks
jdd
It will indeed - but the logistics for sending out DVDs worldwide incl. the
overhead of customs, is so great that we concentrate on larger events and
orders and cannot fullfill smaller requests. 30 DVDs is just too few for us
to
handle at the moment.
Sorry,
Andreas
Righto. I assumed
:( sorry didn't mean to make the orders.
Thanks,
Pup
I think he meant like the English expression, Your wish is my
command which really is used with a sense of flourish and humor. So
:D or ;)
Really nice work guys, totally awesome.
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On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Joe Brandt joe.bra...@gmail.com wrote:
I am a student at State College of Florida and an openSuse advocate.
Would it be possible to get 30 @ 11.4 DVD's for my computer science
teacher to distribute to his classes? Any stickers, pens or other
swag would be
The Aussie Ambassador, Tim Serong and I agree that a mailing list is
the preferred means of communication for Australian users. With our
presence in Australia growing stronger, a separate list for local
discussion would allow us to activities and events without cluttering
other lists . I know
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Bryen M. Yunashko susero...@bryen.com wrote:
Now let me ask another question. If we create country ML's, does it
have to be focused on ambassadors only? If, for example, we create an
Australian list, wouldn't it make more sense to create one list for all
of
Guys,
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 derivative of the openSUSE Geeko logo, which
we are not permitted to change.
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 derivative of the openSUSE Geeko logo
We should be looking for things in the $1-$2 range. That doesn't really
give us many options though, I know.
What about little geeckos to pin on your jacket?
Love the pin idea, also the USB stick - but as a purchase item rather
than giveaway. We had a lot of fans who'd be keen to purchase
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 4:30 AM, Kim Leyendecker
kimleyendec...@hotmail.de wrote:
In 11.3 the codename was Teal in 11.2 Emerald. Maybe we can change the
codename to the names of animals, who are threatened with extinction. As an
example: openSUSE 12.0 Narwhal (Okay, a little bit Ubuntu copy in
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Bryen M. Yunashko susero...@bryen.com wrote:
My point is that such a discussion about
a factorydevelopment product should happen in the appropriate mailing
list. In this case, it should be on the -factory ML or arguably, on the
Project ML.
Ok. That wasn't my
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Martin Schlander
martin.schlan...@gmail.com wrote:
Mandag den 21. marts 2011 01:57:43 skrev Bryen M. Yunashko:
There's been a bit of noise in the past couple of months advocating a
merge of both the artwork mailing list and artwork IRC channel along
with the
Hey guys I was distracted and hit 'publish' instead of 'save draft' on
the Statistics news post. Straight away I changed it to 'private'
since there doesn't seem to be any other kind of 'unpublish' button.
Very frustrating as the post is far from finished, I'm terribly sorry!!!
Can anyone please
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Satoru Matsumoto helios_r...@gmx.net wrote:
As all of you may know, Japan was struck by a strong earthquake and
tsunami last week. Fortunately, I myself and my family live in Tokyo and
escaped serious damage.
We've been watching the news - the reports from
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Manu Gupta manugu...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All
I am too excited and am righting in a lot of joy. Congrats to all
openSUSE is selected for GSoC more to come later :D let me enjoy now
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yes, probably, but for now connect is not user friendly (I just come
from it), don't compare to facebook, for example (I know...).
by the way, making report have little interest. I don't know for the
others, but I do bimonthly meetings in my LUG and promote openSUSE
nearly each time,
PS : to you Helen, I didn't forget my task to provide a simple way to
browse it.
Just need a week more to try one or two promising solutions.
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Awesome. I won't forget :))
Kostas: Yaloki made a really good 'step by step' on how to set
Not yet so ar as I know - I did mention to Carlos that a female Geeko
character would be awesome and he said he would try to come up with
one, so hopefully he might have time :)
cheers
Helen
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 5:48 PM, jdd j...@dodin.org wrote:
We used for Facebook a neat image with a
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:48 AM, James Mason bear...@opensuse.org wrote:
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Bryen M Yunashko susero...@bryen.com wrote:
http://goo.gl/Ye7i4 for those who don't live in the UTC TZ ;-)
- James Mason 'bear454'
ugh, 3am, I'm unlikely to be there.
Is there an
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Michael Miller
michael.mil...@attachmate.com wrote:
Hi Helen,
. I missed the SCaLE event last month due to
travel but heard that Jos did a great presentation there.
It was HUGE. It was my first conference so I was amazed - met so many
interesting people. One of
Someone who knows may wish to answer this comment on Susan Linton's blog here:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/who-contributes-most-libreoffice
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Mono
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My major concern is that Novell
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Jan Holesovsky ke...@suse.cz wrote:
Hi all,
Since I experienced some very poor communication about LibreOffice
recently, I thought it would be good to reach out to this list...
I mean this:
http://news.opensuse.org/2011/02/26/opensuse-11-4-rc2-steps-out/
Hey Manu,
when is the deadline for this? March 9?
Can we change 'we are an international bunch' to 'we are an
international community'? bunch sounds sort of awkward and dated.
We might be able to pull together something from the images we've been
using for the SCALE materials, or maybe
With all the noteworthy suggestions about campaigns built around a
chameleon changing color, wouldn't that run afoul of the official
restrictions displaying the openSUSE geeko?
I recently read this which seems to me if strictly followed frowns on
such shenanigans...
I'm biased because I'm an LXDE user. It's a great desktop - it has a
feel more like Gnome, complete and not too minimal, but light enough
to run on my old laptop. The openSUSE implementation is excellent.
(Suspend and wireless work!)
It's the default for the popular Knoppix live CD and is the
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:17 PM, jdd j...@dodin.org wrote:
Le 16/02/2011 02:28, Pascal Bleser a écrit :
CC-BY-SA 3.0
what we *have* to discuss early is *the way* ,the licence can be
repsected.
It's easy for text, but for posters, photos, videos it's much more
difficult.
If we have to
The most pragmatic solution, and the fairest, IMHO, is that the
attribution should go to the openSUSE project.
We probably should mention that explicitly somewhere, and also
that by committing content to the repository, you accept that:
* the work is still owned by you, and by whomever makes
I urgently need the most recent 11.4 release notes to forward on to a
journalist.
Thanks for those images, Kim, they are already proving useful. Though
I did receive the query - is that wallpaper definitely final? - so
I can't help wondering if maybe we should be looking at an alternative
for
Giving ideas is cheap, but asking not to give ideas if you can't produce is
counterproductive to brainstorming.
I see where Jos is coming from, but I also agree that brainstorming is
a good thing.
Many of us have loads of good ideas that we don't have the skills to
bring to fruition.
Often
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Pieter De Decker pdedec...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
A few weeks ago, I shared drafts of some openSUSE posters I made. I
finalized the posters tonight.
I've made a total of six posters on various subjects:
- openSUSE's stable/tumbleweed repositories
-
I guess I am lost. I thought Jos was asking for ideas. Please forgive
me, if I read it wrong.
Yes he is; but ideas that people want to 'own' and act upon - and I
think he means really with the context of that specific Studio
discussion, as it needs to be focused and actionable. So I fear we've
Hmm... I use GNOME but I couldn't get the last milestone to install,
and I heard the current image won't fit on a DVD.
If they fix that problem with the DVD I could try a dual boot install
I guess? Do you know why the VirtualBox installation failed?
cheers
Helen
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:47
If we want to stick with green then chameleon is not for us.
we can use mostly gren and go around from there, like patchwork
this one is nice:
http://photos-des-iles.net/la-reunion/images/cameleon-vert.jpg
this one is specially cute :-)
http://www.etsy.com/listing/28866167/crazy-chameleon
Manu, Helen:
Please, check the graphics in Dropbox and give me your comments.
(Chamaeleon_v1.svg). It's still a draft moving the concepts Manu provided us.
I am still trying to figure out how to give other the URL so they can see it
in the e-mail content. Need to read the manual for a
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