On Sunday 07 November 2010 11:20:28 Kostas Koudaras wrote: > Hi > We were trying to thing ways in order to promote SUSE Studio which we > think is something great,we were thinking SS and OBS mostly because we > want people that use another distribution to know those two great > tools and become more familiar with the openSUSE project. > So what is the story,as the Greek openSUSE team we are installing > openSUSE distribution and some other distributions to some old > computers that a branch of scouts have but we are talking with some > other higher grade (national) scouts so that we install FOSS to other > branches around Greece.We had the problem that the PC's are really old > and we need a lighter distribution,so Stathis said "Ok I'll try to > make one on SUSE Studio" and I thought why should we do it and don't > let other people be creative,let other people know this great tool and > give anyone who wants the pleasure of making an operating system by > himself? > So we thought why don't we ask for permission for the scout logos and > stuff and make a contest about who will create a Custom Scout > Distribution? > We are thinking in giving everyone a starter pack with logos and stuff > that Scout want included in the distribution to download from a > page,give a dead end(with plenty of time,not because people might need > time to create a distribution but give us the time to promote it > BIG),after that give some people to test all the distributions and > finally the Greek openSUSE team and the Scouts(or maybe only the > scouts) to choose the winner.I would like to ask if openSUSE can send > us something to put as a prize,something symbolic, I really don't > know. > Finally we have an 'official' Greek Scout openSUSE distribution and > after that if all this go well we could try on organizing a global > contest about it,only think what might follow after that..Other > organizations and a great marketing opening opening doors for openSUSE > project around the world. You might think we are crazy or dreamers or > what ever, we don't bother because we are... > > Kostas 'Warlordfff' Koudaras
Resurrecting dead thread... :D BTW there is the openSUSE Distr contest* which is almost done now... Anyway I would say promoting studio by USING it and talking about it is plenty :D Cheers, Jos * http://www.novell.com/promo/suse/the-disters-contest.html
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