On Thursday, March 17, 2011 01:42:53 PM Kim Leyendecker wrote: > 11.4 is out, and I think it´s time for post-release marketing now! Maybe > with this idea: > > We can ask our users, to make a screenshot of their desktops and load up > it to Facebook, Flickr or their server and send us the link. We can > collect the photos and create a little "our user´s desktop show" with > the screenshots. > > *What´s the sense of this idea?* > We will see, how many are using 11.4 already. And we will show our > users, that openSUSE is _their_ distro too. It´s a good chance to make > openSUSE more personal to our users. > > *How we want to collect the pictures?* > As I think today, we can use Facebook. The user upload the photo and > post it to our profile. Also we can use planet openSUSE for that. > Somebody blog about it, and the user post their desktops as a comment. > > *What the f*ck to do with the pictures?* > At first, we have to make clear, that the project is allowed to use the > pics for marketing. We´ve got the advantage, that we have _free_ > marketing stuff. But the real thing behind this is that we have a > (hopefully huge) gallery with our user´s desktop. > > *Why that all?* > Because the user will think: openSUSE is my Linux! It makes the distro > more personal (User: Darling, look, their´s my desktop! And their´s the > desktop of our neighbours. And look their! Their´s the desktop of uncle > Ronald from Alabama!) > Another aspect is, that the user maybe see some nice desktops and get > ideas of style his own. > > Hope you will like it! If you still have some questions, don´t be afraid > to ask ;) > > thanks
I like this idea. Maybe it's possible to make a collage at the end to show everybody desktops (collection). A wall including a favorite selection. Could this give us (as alive community) some visibility on Internet ? I will come back with my screenshots. -- Ricardo Chung | openSUSE Linux Ambassador Panama openSUSE 11.4 | KDE 4.6.00 release 6 | Mesa 3D-Nouveau Gallium 7.10 video drivers High Performance -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
