Some of you may have read the blog post about openSUSE Conference by Brian Proffitt, one of the most famous writers in Linux and FLOSS world. http://www.itworld.com/open-source/125538/opensuse-conference-a-time-introspection
He wrote: "The conference, which had the theme "Collaboration across Borders," seemed almost completely non-existent in the US tech media. Most of the coverage I could find was in the German trade press. Hardly any beyond that. (...)" So the question is, was our advertising campaign for OSC enough to spread the word to a much broader audience of people beyond openSUSE community? You may know there are some active Linux/FLOSS news sites such as: Linux Today http://www.linuxtoday.com/ LXer http://lxer.com/ EntirelyOpenSource.com http://www.entirelyopensource.com/ I, as a editor of Weekly News, regularly go around those sites to see if there are some interesting news on Linux/FLOSS. But to be honest, I could find only few entries about OSC on those sites. I think that was one of the reason why Brian felt OSC was "almost completely non-existent in the US tech media". If an information is aimed at only openSUSE commynity, writing an article on {news,lizards}.o.o and posting it to opensuse-* lists would be just enough. But some information should be reached to a much broader people beyond openSUSE community. So I'm going to submit openSUSE related news to those sites when I think they might be interesting also for people beyond openSUSE community. If you know other active news sites in addition to above 3 sites, please let me know. ;-) But since I'm just an volunteer and my time is limited, that cannot be done only by me. Your help will be always welcomed. :-) Best, -- _/_/ Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/ _/_/ Marketing/Weekly News/openFATE Screening Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: helios_reds_at_gmx.net / irc: HeliosReds _/_/ _/_/ http://blog.zaq.ne.jp/opensuse/ _/_/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
