Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-16 Thread Rajko M.
On Wednesday, December 14, 2011 06:59:55 PM differentreality wrote: > Hey all :) > > (I have to admit my email comes in a little late - I've been crazy > busy, I'm afraid) As usually, real life has precedence :) > I would like to point out that I don't feel left out or that my idea > was stolen

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-16 Thread Rajko M.
On Thursday, December 15, 2011 09:50:11 PM Kim Leyendecker wrote: > Before discussing it > here to hell, we might should include them more... How do we do that if they don't show up here? This is not hidden list where they have no access, so it is their responsibility to follow up on their ide

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-15 Thread Kim Leyendecker
BTW, are the original founders of the project still up to date with regard to the latest results of the discussion? Before discussing it here to hell, we might should include them more... AND: Apart from the GCI page, is there any material on the wiki? And are some boosters included in the who

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-14 Thread Kim Leyendecker
On 2011-12-14 jdd wrote: Le 14/12/2011 20:05, Stuart Tanner a écrit : What says against doing both is the fact that we can't even get one done let alone two or three.. I understood the magazine project as being a pdf one first. We will see if any printed material is usefull later Well, a

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-14 Thread jdd
Le 14/12/2011 20:05, Stuart Tanner a écrit : What says against doing both is the fact that we can't even get one done let alone two or three.. I understood the magazine project as being a pdf one first. We will see if any printed material is usefull later let's first play with the idea and

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-14 Thread Stuart Tanner
On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 20:10 +0100, Kim Leyendecker wrote: > On 14.12.2011 19:36, Chuck Payne wrote: > > Guys, > > > > What I was thinking, I talking about this last year, instead of doing > > a publish magazine, let do something like Ubuntu Full Circle, a PDF. > > I think bi-year or quartely would

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-14 Thread Kim Leyendecker
On 14.12.2011 19:36, Chuck Payne wrote: Guys, What I was thinking, I talking about this last year, instead of doing a publish magazine, let do something like Ubuntu Full Circle, a PDF. I think bi-year or quartely would be great. The future is e-publishing. I think it would be create to create s

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-14 Thread Stuart Tanner
On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 13:36 -0500, Chuck Payne wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Stuart Tanner wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 17:48 +0100, Gregory Zysk wrote: > >> On 12/04/2011 02:53 PM, Manu Gupta wrote: > >> > Hi All, > >> > > >> > I think its the perfect oppurtunity for everyone to s

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-14 Thread Chuck Payne
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Stuart Tanner wrote: > On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 17:48 +0100, Gregory Zysk wrote: >> On 12/04/2011 02:53 PM, Manu Gupta wrote: >> > Hi All, >> > >> > I think its the perfect oppurtunity for everyone to start working on >> > openSUSE Magazine.  We all have been interest

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-14 Thread Stuart Tanner
On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 17:48 +0100, Gregory Zysk wrote: > On 12/04/2011 02:53 PM, Manu Gupta wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I think its the perfect oppurtunity for everyone to start working on > > openSUSE Magazine. We all have been interested but the idea got lost > > somewhere since none of us had en

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-14 Thread jdd
Le 14/12/2011 17:59, differentreality a écrit : Regarding the "best of news' articles" it has been something that we intended to do anyway, still we would need some reviewing of the articles and possible corrections (and I mostly refer to syntax/grammar/clear meaning which we find that is import

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-14 Thread differentreality
Hey all :) (I have to admit my email comes in a little late - I've been crazy busy, I'm afraid) I would like to point out that I don't feel left out or that my idea was stolen in this particular case. The initial idea was presented through the most significant mailing lists, so I think everybody

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-09 Thread jdd
Le 09/12/2011 19:38, Kim Leyendecker a écrit : Sorry, I guess my question was just too imprecise. I rather meant which criteria are there to call an article part of a "best of"? depends of how many people work for the magazine. I would like to see for example "give the 10 best article of your

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-09 Thread Kim Leyendecker
On 09.12.2011 19:17, jdd wrote: Le 09/12/2011 17:10, Kim Leyendecker a écrit : I think it's a great part of the initial idea. Magazine = one year of openSUSE, with mostly a "best of" the news (news.o.o is extremely good) +1 But how you´ll create a "best of"? by hand? don't see other way :-

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-09 Thread jdd
Le 09/12/2011 17:10, Kim Leyendecker a écrit : I think it's a great part of the initial idea. Magazine = one year of openSUSE, with mostly a "best of" the news (news.o.o is extremely good) +1 But how you´ll create a "best of"? by hand? don't see other way :-( jdd -- http://www.dodin.net

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-09 Thread Kim Leyendecker
On 08.12.2011 12:45, jdd wrote: Le 07/12/2011 12:41, Jos Poortvliet a écrit : These things (both the magazine and this brochure) could simply be based on news.opensuse.org articles. Why not push the articles there and have the magazine and this thing be a selection of those articles? I think

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-09 Thread Kim Leyendecker
On 06.12.2011 17:48, Gregory Zysk wrote: On 12/04/2011 02:53 PM, Manu Gupta wrote: Hi All, I think its the perfect oppurtunity for everyone to start working on openSUSE Magazine. We all have been interested but the idea got lost somewhere since none of us had enough time. One of the results o

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-08 Thread jdd
Le 07/12/2011 12:41, Jos Poortvliet a écrit : These things (both the magazine and this brochure) could simply be based on news.opensuse.org articles. Why not push the articles there and have the magazine and this thing be a selection of those articles? I think it's a great part of the initial

Re: Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-08 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Sunday, December 04, 2011 13:08:39 Rajko M. wrote: > On Sunday, December 04, 2011 11:54:48 PM Manu Gupta wrote: > > However, I think you missed my point over here. What I mean to say is > > have a small brochure or set of articles in a printed form and send it > > to various companies or in corp

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-07 Thread Pascal Bleser
On 2011-12-07 10:04:00 (-0700), Alan Clark wrote: > I for one am heartened by terrorpup's and jdd's pro-community > spirit in their replies to this email thread. Thank you > Terrorpup and jdd for encouraging productive action in a > cooperative spirit. After all, the whole point of a community >

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-07 Thread Alan Clark
I for one am heartened by terrorpup's and jdd's pro-community spirit in their replies to this email thread. Thank you Terrorpup and jdd for encouraging productive action in a cooperative spirit. After all, the whole point of a community is to work together. On several occasions this past ye

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-07 Thread jdd
Le 07/12/2011 13:10, Chuck Payne a écrit : times. We are good that talking and writing e-mails, but bad at taking action, at least N.B. Prashanth and Stella started working on it. right. A first step could be to make a first shot with the etherpad content and dummy text (4 pages are enough),

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-07 Thread Chuck Payne
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Roger Luedecke wrote: > On Tuesday, December 06, 2011 05:48:01 PM Gregory Zysk wrote: >> On 12/04/2011 02:53 PM, Manu Gupta wrote: >> > Hi All, >> > >> > I think its the perfect oppurtunity for everyone to start working on >> > openSUSE Magazine.  We all have been i

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-06 Thread Roger Luedecke
On Tuesday, December 06, 2011 05:48:01 PM Gregory Zysk wrote: > On 12/04/2011 02:53 PM, Manu Gupta wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I think its the perfect oppurtunity for everyone to start working on > > openSUSE Magazine. We all have been interested but the idea got lost > > somewhere since none of u

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-06 Thread Klaas Freitag
On 06.12.2011 17:48, Gregory Zysk wrote: Hi, I am sorry, but I have to interject on this. Manu, I have seen you do this times before and it is really bad taste. This is not your initiative, but N.B. Prashanth's and Stella's idea, which was initiated at the Marketing Hackfest in Nuremberg afte

[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-06 Thread N B Prashanth
Hi , The idea for the magazine was originally mine and Stella's, as mentioned by Gregory in the post above. The project was delayed significantly and was dropped for the time being as the community was gearing up for the 12.1 release. Hence, we were unable to get many contributions, which ultimat

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-06 Thread Gregory Zysk
On 12/04/2011 02:53 PM, Manu Gupta wrote: > Hi All, > > I think its the perfect oppurtunity for everyone to start working on > openSUSE Magazine. We all have been interested but the idea got lost > somewhere since none of us had enough time. > > One of the results of GCI was design for the magazin

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-04 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday, December 04, 2011 11:16:50 AM Roger Luedecke wrote: > Producing a full magazine would be a hell of a lot of work, even if it were > only quarterly. Though I think quarterly might be manageable. However I get > the feeling our various teams have shrunk considerably over the last > sever

Re: Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-04 Thread Roger Luedecke
Producing a full magazine would be a hell of a lot of work, even if it were only quarterly. Though I think quarterly might be manageable. However I get the feeling our various teams have shrunk considerably over the last several months. On an unrelated note, KMail seems to be on the fritz; not

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-04 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday, December 04, 2011 11:54:48 PM Manu Gupta wrote: > However, I think you missed my point over here. What I mean to say is > have a small brochure or set of articles in a printed form and send it > to various companies or in corporate conferences where we can actually > show what openSUSE

Re: Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-04 Thread Manu Gupta
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Roger Luedecke wrote: > Seems more like a matter of a brochure than a magazine then. Well these are separate pages, so you can use them as you want to actually..Combine similar formats to get a magazine or different formats together to form a brochure. But as I sa

Re: Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-04 Thread Roger Luedecke
Seems more like a matter of a brochure than a magazine then. -- Chivalry, Schmivalry! Roger the thief has a method he uses for sneaky attacks: Folks who are reading are Characteristically Always Forgetting to Guard their own bac ... -- To unsubscri

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-04 Thread Manu Gupta
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Rajko M. wrote: > On Sunday, December 04, 2011 07:23:20 PM Manu Gupta wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I think its the perfect oppurtunity for everyone to start working on >> openSUSE Magazine.  We all have been interested but the idea got lost >> somewhere since none of us

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-04 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday, December 04, 2011 07:23:20 PM Manu Gupta wrote: > Hi All, > > I think its the perfect oppurtunity for everyone to start working on > openSUSE Magazine. We all have been interested but the idea got lost > somewhere since none of us had enough time. > > One of the results of GCI was des

[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-12-04 Thread Manu Gupta
Hi All, I think its the perfect oppurtunity for everyone to start working on openSUSE Magazine. We all have been interested but the idea got lost somewhere since none of us had enough time. One of the results of GCI was design for the magazine. While printing of the magazine maybe very expensive

Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-09-17 Thread jdd
Le 16/09/2011 17:58, differentreality a écrit : Hi all! One of the ideas that popped up during the marketing hackfest here today was that of making an openSUSE magazine with focus on the just to test, I openned a (free) ietherpad professionnal account and a pad for the magazine. Please test

[opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Magazine

2011-09-16 Thread differentreality
Hi all! One of the ideas that popped up during the marketing hackfest here today was that of making an openSUSE magazine with focus on the conference proceedings and the cool stuff that happened since the last conference. The magazine would contain articles on the main highlights of the past year