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
Hi, Kim and other Geekos, Here is an openSUSE 11.4 screenshots My_Desktops serie https://picasaweb.google.com/RICARDO.A.CHUNG/My_Desktops# One of them were shot with my phone camera to capture the desktop effects like cylinder, and grid. Backgrounds coming from KDE Desktop Wallpapers and Background. Plasma Shell with some widgets to show the KDE Power on my openSUSE 11.4 using Mesa 3D experimental driver and Nouveau driver for Nvidia video adapter Regards, -- Ricardo Chung | openSUSE Linux Ambassador Panama openSUSE 11.4 | KDE 4.6.00 release 6 | Mesa 3D-Nouveau Gallium 7.10 experimental video drivers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
