On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Kim Leyendecker <[email protected]> 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.
Awesome! > *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. How do you expect them to send the link? We need a way to gather the links easily... a nice webform somewhere, preferably to be integrated in a news.o.o story... Who has an idea or way to do this? Yes, I think we should do a news.o.o story on this, including that input box. Then we need to gather the screen shots automatically and have a way to show them. Possible solution for all the above: - we can simply say: use flickr. These days, even I use it (didn't want to create an account earlier) because it has openID support. Then we tell them to use a certain tag, eg #openSUSE114screenshot. Then we have on news.opensuse.org and/or in other places a flickr widget showing these screen shots. This is simple and doable by us. But I would love to hear an idea (and willingness to put the work in) on a better solution which is ALSO doable by us :D > *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. I also think it's simply a cool thing to do. Nice news.o.o article etc etc. And in the way I described (flickr tag & flickr widget) we can easily do it. Kim, you up for writing a draft news.o.o article in case nobody has a better way of doing it? Then we'll just go and do it :D > Hope you will like it! If you still have some questions, don´t be afraid to > ask ;) > > thanks > > -- > Kim Leyendecker ([email protected]) > openSUSE Ambassador > http://www.suseusers.de.vu > powered by openSUSE 11.4 RC2 | KDE 4.6 | Kernel-default 2.6.37.1-14 | using > Tumbleweed > openSUSE/Slashdot Profilname: openLHAG (OpenLHAG) > Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want > to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE > Studio a try. www.susestudio.com. > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
