[opensuse-marketing] Inside Look at openSUSE Build Service & SUSE Studio | The Linux Action Show s12e10

2010-07-26 Thread James Mason
I worked with Bryan Lunduke at Jupiter Broadcasting to get a SUSE-specific show line up. Here's the result: This week on, The Linux Action Show! We get the insiders scope on the openSUSE Build Service and SUSE Studio, find out how these two services alone could change the

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Project-Flyer Feedback

2010-08-05 Thread James Mason
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:18 AM, Robert Lihm wrote: > 4. An URL-Shortener would be cool ;-) We have http://opensu.se for short urls - but I don't know who operates it. - James Mason 'bear454' -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org For additiona

[opensuse-marketing] SpiderOak?

2010-09-07 Thread James Mason
Considering how much we have contributed to the marketing of SpiderOak, could someone talk to them about evening the score? "SpiderOak provides an easy, secure and consolidated free online backup, sync, sharing, access & storage solution for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Ubuntu, Debian & Fedora)"

Re: [opensuse-marketing] feedback on news

2010-10-28 Thread James Mason
Is this the GNU/Linux vs. Linux useless argument thread, or the vi vs. emacs useless argument thread? I got lost about a dozen posts (~100 paragraphs) back... :P - James Mason 'bear454' On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Graham Lauder wrote: > On Friday 29 Oct 2010 12:20:56 you wro

[opensuse-marketing] 11.4 disc timeline?

2011-01-03 Thread James Mason
DE / Installer disc is a *huge* draw. - James Mason 'bear454' -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+h...@opensuse.org

Re: [opensuse-marketing] New SCALE CFP opportunity

2011-01-16 Thread James Mason
Registering to do a walkthrough of SUSE Studio. Slides? I don't need slides. I can build a custom Linux distro, in a browser, in < 5 minutes ;-) (But I'll probably do something slide-ish anyway, just to be safe.) - James Mason 'bear454' On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:1

Re: [opensuse-marketing] 11.4 Release Campaign Planning

2011-01-18 Thread James Mason
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: > In today's marketing team meeting we discussed how to go forth with the > 11.4 Release Campaign planning.  It was agreed that we should use the > December Collaboration Days as a model and adopt a divide-and-conquer > strategy with respec

[opensuse-marketing] Origami?

2011-02-08 Thread James Mason
source; they can see the how of the toy, not just the what, and even make/remake/alter it themselves. - James Mason 'bear454' -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+h...@opensuse.org

Re: [opensuse-marketing] DVD cover for 11.4

2011-02-09 Thread James Mason
; Do we have access to the final 11.4 art (wallpapers, icons, etc.) ? I'd like to give this a go but want the right materials to work with. - James Mason 'bear454' -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+h...@opensuse.org

Re: [opensuse-marketing] DVD cover for 11.4

2011-02-09 Thread James Mason
opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+h...@opensuse.org > > Do we have access to the final 11.4 art (wallpaper, icons, etc.) ? - James Mason 'bear454' -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+h...@opensuse.org

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Origami?

2011-02-10 Thread James Mason
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Satoru Matsumoto wrote: > Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: >> On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 16:04 -0800, James Mason wrote: >>> Just out of curiosity, has anyone made the origami geeko ( >>> http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_materials#Boot

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-15 Thread James Mason
On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 13:23 +0100, jdd wrote: > Le 11/02/2011 12:27, Manu Gupta a écrit : > > >> openSUSE is a universal operating system (can everybody find another > >> expression for that, it looks really like Debian.) > > warning: > > Debian build for almost any hardware platform, we don't.

Re: [opensuse-marketing] What is our identity?

2011-02-15 Thread James Mason
On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 00:59 +0530, Manu Gupta wrote: > Hi all, > > What does openSUSE focus on > > 1. Do we focus on Desktop? Yes > 2. Do we focus on Servers? Yes > 3. We say we focus on balance,but what does that actually mean? It means that openSUSE is the *only* complete, well-rounded dis

Re: [opensuse-marketing] The Chameleon way

2011-02-15 Thread James Mason
On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 20:10 +0200, Kostas Koudaras wrote: > Manu That is great, I really like the idea > Kostas > > 2011/2/11 Manu Gupta : > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4977997/openSUSE/chameleon.svg > > > > Check this chameleon way out > > > > Regards > > Manu > > > > On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 18:34 +0

[opensuse-marketing] Bad News - no SCaLE for [me] one year. :[

2011-02-15 Thread James Mason
decent webcam, and Skype me in ( james.f.mason) ! - James Mason 'bear454' -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+h...@opensuse.org

Re: [opensuse-marketing] The Chameleon way

2011-02-17 Thread James Mason
cial. >> > > >> BTW, even the logo on http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Artwork_brand is not >> really official :) >> > oh, God,  I always thought this was official. :-( > >> Here is what is protected as a trademark: >> http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/sho

[opensuse-marketing] Article for review: "openSUSE Servers with One Click"

2011-02-28 Thread James Mason
rg/?p=7229&preview=true http://news.opensuse.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=7229&action=edit - James Mason 'bear454' -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+h...@opensuse.org

[opensuse-marketing] Fwd: Ask not what your distro can do for you...

2011-03-01 Thread James Mason
I sent this out to the rest of the studio dev team. I'll update everyone of what we get done. As of now, it looks like we'll be able to have 11.4 support on release day; we're just having 1 issue with Kiwi we need to wrap up in the next day or so to make it happen. - James

[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE 11.4 Release Party

2011-03-09 Thread James Mason
seating and a free round. Additional attendees may party at the Copper Hog's most excellent bar. openSUSE 11.4 DVDs and swag will be available to all attendees, but please RSVP here so I know how many to bring! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=169441903122687 - James Mason 'bear

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

2011-03-09 Thread James Mason
ew users. I'm only going to comment on this part... We do pulling the Fluendo MP3 codec for GStreamer, just like we pullin Adobe Flash Player. If you run OnlineUpdate during setup, as recommended, you'll have MP3 support right out of the gate. - James Mason 'bear454' -- To

[opensuse-marketing] Re: openSUSE 11.4 Release Party

2011-03-11 Thread James Mason
network architecture and software audits. He was really excited to see the tools available, like netcat, wireshark, and ntfs-3g, that could be run on a live CD or thumb drive (without installing anything on a pc). - James Mason 'bear454' On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:42 PM, James Mason wro

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Meeting on Monday

2011-03-13 Thread James Mason
and a number of > us are unavailable except for tomorrow on Monday. > > If you can attend, please come to our meeting at 16:00 UTC http://goo.gl/Ye7i4 for those who don't live in the UTC TZ ;-) - James Mason 'bear454' > in the > marketing IRC channel and we'll

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

2011-03-17 Thread James Mason
It would be cool to use something like http://www.buildamosaic.com/ to do a photomosaic of screenshots, snapped to an openSUSE logo... - James Mason 'bear454' On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Kostas Koudaras wrote: > 2011/3/17 Ricardo Chung : >> On Thursday, March 17, 2

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

2011-03-18 Thread James Mason
Uploaded a couple of screenshots. - James Mason 'bear454' On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Manu Gupta wrote: > For suseware.com/flick > > You need to upload it to our flickr openSUSE Group and they will > automatically be added to the suseware.com/flick > > basic

Re: [opensuse-marketing] suggestions for cheap goodies

2011-03-26 Thread James Mason
ote, and a description. - James Mason 'bear454' On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Jos Poortvliet wrote: > Hi all, > > In my previous mail I mentioned stickers, postcards and buttons - in > short, simple, cheap goodies. I would actually love some more ideas in > that ar

Re: [opensuse-marketing] suggestions for cheap goodies

2011-03-26 Thread James Mason
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: > On Sat, 2011-03-26 at 11:31 -0700, James Mason wrote: >> I don't know how cheap is cheap, USB thumb drives, preloaded with the >> Live images, would be an awesome takeaway. >> >> There are tons of options

Re: [opensuse-marketing] suggestions for cheap goodies

2011-03-28 Thread James Mason
e-badges.com/domed-case-badges-with-your-logo-or-image-p-180.html ) but that's not just up to me. - James Mason 'bear454' On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:23 AM, yancy smith wrote: > If they can be made or bought in  the US  try u.s. toys > >  www.ustoy.com > > I used

Re: [opensuse-marketing] suggestions for cheap goodies

2011-03-28 Thread James Mason
Here's an example of what I'm talking about: http://paste.opensuse.org/526064 ('adapted' from http://goo.gl/WgmSk ) - James Mason 'bear454' On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:34 PM, James Mason wrote: > I had another thought - domed stickers.  I know we do a nice s

Re: [opensuse-marketing] suggestions for cheap goodies

2011-04-04 Thread James Mason
Wow this conversation went off-topic. - James Mason 'bear454' On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Stuart Tanner wrote: > On Saturday 02 Apr 2011 07:30:40 jdd wrote: >> Le 02/04/2011 00:27, Stuart Tanner a écrit : >> > consider stocking linux - if they advertise

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

2011-04-14 Thread James Mason
What about upstream? We can't do the "10K DVDs" for every upstream project... yet many of these projects are what makes openSUSE great. How do we recognize them? - James Mason 'bear454' On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Rajko M. wrote: > On Wednesday, April 13

[opensuse-marketing] Fwd: openSUSE at LFNW

2011-04-25 Thread James Mason
Apparently we're doing something right :) - James Mason 'bear454' -- Forwarded message -- From: Carl Symons Date: Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:06 AM Subject: openSUSE at LFNW To: James Mason Hi James, Thanks for the quick response on IRC. I had just gotten IR

Re: [opensuse-marketing] New URLs for Marketing

2011-04-27 Thread James Mason
I am convinced that if Henne were weather he'd be a rain cloud... hovering over a parade. - James Mason 'bear454' On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:53 AM, Henne Vogelsang wrote: > Hey, > > On 04/27/2011 04:12 AM, Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: > >> We have some useful &

Re: [opensuse-marketing] New URLs for Marketing

2011-04-29 Thread James Mason
I'd rather use opensu.se for short URLs, but howto evades me. The wiki makes it easy to do so, and by redirecting to properly located/organized documents, we get the best of both worlds. - James Mason 'bear454' On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Kostas Koudaras wrote: > 201

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Review slideshow of openSUSE 12.1

2011-06-02 Thread James Mason
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > > Hi Team, > > I'm appending the current slideshow of openSUSE 12.1 - it contains a couple of > errors now. Could somebody review and send me an updated version, please? > Is there an XSLT for this, to make it a bit

[opensuse-marketing] Event Wrapup: LFNW 2011

2011-06-02 Thread James Mason
travel costs and letting me eat up his US t-shirt supplies; and Pavol Rusnak for doing a quick update to the Game Store to make it work with 11.4. - James Mason 'bear454' -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+h...@opensuse.org

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Re: openSUSE Brochure

2011-06-09 Thread James Mason
Seeing the PDF preview, it would make much more sense to have avialable in a US Legal format (8.5" x 14") than US Letter (8.5"x11"). No need to remove anything! - James Mason 'bear454' On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Jos Poortvliet wrote: > On Thursday 09 Jun

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

2011-06-09 Thread James Mason
I sent out invitations to asking for help "show FB we're a group worth saving instead of decimating". - James Mason 'bear454' On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Chuck Payne wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Chuck Payne wrote: >> {ATTENTION} Please pas

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

2011-06-30 Thread James Mason
Dunno why the conversation left the list, but its easily remedied ;-) - James Mason 'bear454' -- Forwarded message -- From: Jos Poortvliet Date: Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 4:40 AM Subject: Re: [opensuse-buildservice] Feedback on OBS Private instance installation

[opensuse-marketing] Sonar Theme for google-chrome

2011-07-06 Thread James Mason
I (finally) put up my Sonar theme for Chrome on the "Chrome Web Store". If you're using the Sonar GTK Metatheme & chrome/chromium, you should enjoy the better integrated appearance ;-) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nffhkilnhahakgpnonhlghioehjcibkh?hl=en-US - J

[opensuse-marketing] 6 months later... news survey

2011-09-09 Thread James Mason
d the exercise worthwhile. - James Mason, 'bear454' -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+h...@opensuse.org

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

2011-09-19 Thread James Mason
On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 19:22 +0200, Jos Poortvliet wrote: > > release notes?: > > > > http://ietherpad.com/12-1-release-notes > > Thanks! Tangentially related, there's a nice little etherpad-lite appliance featured on SUSE Gallery right now[1], maybe its time for openSUSE to hosts its own etherp

Re: [opensuse-marketing] some organisation around etherpad

2011-09-22 Thread James Mason
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 09:25 +0200, jdd wrote: > Hello, > > I must admit the first time I was asked to use etherpad my first > movement was to don't like it. > > But after some use, it seems so well fitted for our work > (collaborative writing of small documents), that my mind completely > chan

Re: [opensuse-marketing] some organisation around etherpad

2011-09-22 Thread James Mason
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 17:49 +0100, Richard Brown wrote: > His reply was along the lines of "if you package it, then we can have > a VM for it" Yes... you're right. And, as it stands, I have no intent to package it; I built VMs. - James M -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr..

[opensuse-marketing] [Fwd: [opensuse-artwork] Re: Poster]

2011-09-29 Thread James Mason
I'm still working out whether or not to do the QR thing... http://paste.opensuse.org/view/raw/45811217 Thoughts? P.S. I *love* Inkscape. -- James Mason SUSE Studio Developer openSUSE Member 2925 Roeder Ave Ste 300 Bellingham, WA 98225-2065 USA +1 360.752.6707 james.ma..

[opensuse-marketing] Re: [opensuse-artwork] Re: Poster

2011-09-30 Thread James Mason
to chew on. This one I tried to focus on what I would want to put up, that would entice other people to check out openSUSE. And again, the package list is a large component, rendered in the QR (and yes its perfectly legible at print-quality). http://paste.opensuse.org/view/raw/97434921 I leave i

Re: [opensuse-marketing] moving!!!

2011-11-03 Thread James Mason
this... their imaging tools [1] are amazing, and downloads are much easier. Bad news is that the tool itself isn't as open as Gitorious, but, well... meh (for me). For my part, I subscribe to the repos with Sparkleshare anyway, so its all local to me. [1] https://github.com/blog/817-be

[opensuse-marketing] Re: RE: [opensuse-ambassadors] Re: Call for release parties

2011-11-14 Thread James Mason
On Sat, 2011-11-12 at 19:25 -0200, Jos Poortvliet wrote: > Yeah, the map doesn't work for me either. And I have no idea how to fix it :( http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Launch_party_coordinates -- James Mason SUSE Studio Developer openSUSE Ambassador 2925 Roeder Ave Ste 300 Bellin

[opensuse-marketing] g+ page content?

2011-11-22 Thread James Mason
Jupiter Broadcasting's "Linux Action Show" did a very positive review of 12.1. It would be nice to see the openSUSE page thank them on g+ https://plus.google.com/105226975130718072838/posts/ZfK1hBKyrM2 :) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org To contact the owne

[opensuse-marketing] [Fwd: [Blug-list] Linuxfest Northwest 2012 Call for Papers and Sponsors]

2011-12-02 Thread James Mason
Mailing List To post send mail to - blug-l...@peakserv.com To change options - http://www.peakserv.com/mailman/listinfo/blug-list -- James Mason SUSE Studio Developer openSUSE Ambassador 2925 Roeder Ave Ste 300 Bellingham, WA 98225-2065 +1 360 752 6707 james.ma...@suse.com ---

[opensuse-marketing] Missing Ambassador?

2012-08-07 Thread James Mason
Hi all, Does anyone know Johan Cabrera ( http://en.opensuse.org/User:Johan_cabrera ) ? He's listed as an Ambassador for Florida, USA; I tried to email him to get some insight into the local users who may be at Summit, but the email bounced. -- James Mason SUSE Studio Developer openSUSE M

[opensuse-marketing] Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] For openSUSE 12.2 release

2012-08-27 Thread James Mason
looking forward to using it everywhere. -- James Mason SUSE Studio Developer openSUSE Member+Ambassador 2925 Roeder Ave #300 Bellingham, WA 98225-2065 USA +1 360 752 6707 jma...@suse.com SUSE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+ow...@opensuse.org

Re: [opensuse-marketing] 12.3 Promotion Suggestion

2013-03-01 Thread James Mason
+1 "Bryen M Yunashko " wrote: I was reading an Ostatic article which referred to Jos Poortvliet as "openSUSE's head cheerleader." It occurs to me this is an opportunity for a great promotion to get more people to try openSUSE 12.3... Public Challenge: When x downloads of 12.3 is reached, Jo

[opensuse-marketing] Call for volunteers - LFNW

2013-03-20 Thread James Mason
be helping out there as well as 'booth duty'. Cheers - and here's to seeing you at the end of April! -- James Mason SUSE Studio Developer openSUSE Member SUSE jma...@suse.com (P) +1 360 752 6707 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org To contact t

[opensuse-marketing] Event report: LFNW April 27, 28

2013-05-10 Thread James Mason
LinuxFest Northwest took place the last weekend in April, as usual, and was an *amazing* event for openSUSE! Prior to the event, I organized a social media schedule, posting to Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus every day of the week prior, with photos and info about our presence. As an event spo

Re: [opensuse-marketing] mailing list admins

2013-09-06 Thread James Mason
I'll give it a go. Send me the details.James MasonSUSE Studio DeveloperopenSUSE Member2925 Roeder Ave, Suite 300Bellingham, WA 98225  USA+1 (360) 752-6707james.ma...@suse.com>>> Jos Poortvliet 09/06/13 7:29 AM >>>Heya,The openSUSE announce list needs new admin(s) - any volunteers? Your job will be

[opensuse-marketing] [Fwd: [Fest-list] LinuxFest 2016 Call for Papers is open!]

2015-12-11 Thread James Mason
ls should work. ___ Fest-list mailing list fest-l...@lists.blug.org http://lists.blug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fest-list -- James Mason Technical Architect, Public Cloud openSUSE Member SUSE jma...@suse.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part