You are my savior, a scholar and a gentleman Doug:)
On 8 December 2015 at 14:04, ddemaio <[email protected]> wrote:
> There's a package heading your way Jimmy. It went out today.
> v/r
> Doug
>
>
> On 12/08/2015 02:03 PM, Jimmy PIERRE wrote:
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Appeal! Please do not let me down :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jimmy
>>
>> On 6 December 2015 at 12:30, Jimmy PIERRE
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Greetings !
>>>
>>> Now it’s time to report on the 21st November event :)
>>>
>>> Number of one to one visitors: 17
>>>
>>> Total number of visitors on/off curiosity or regulars : 41
>>>
>>> Many appointments:
>>>
>>> 1. A lady brought her laptop and wanted to install openSUSE.
>>> The hard disk was 40 GB only and with 1 giga free. We were helpless L
>>> I looked in my toolbox if we had a spare hard disk, could not
>>> accommodate her. She will buy an external disk and save her XP
>>> documents before bringing the baby back for baptism in December.
>>>
>>> 2. A local teacher wanted some DVDs to give away to his good IT
>>> pupils, we had around 12 DVDs of openSUSE that we burnt beforehand, I
>>> sacrificed them for this good cause
>>>
>>> 3. A couple wanted an upgrade of openSUSE 13.1 to 13.2 because
>>> they had a 32 bit computer. USB did not work quite well, my RSYNC
>>> server was not finished and no more DVDs. They trust us, so they
>>> settled for an upgrade at home coupled with a coffee/tea/biscuits or
>>> something whenever we could visit. We do visit a few people when there
>>> are peripherals to configure.
>>>
>>> 4. A young man brought 3 disks for verification. Two were DOA
>>> and the last one a 200GB was declared ok for openSUSE installation.
>>>
>>> 5. A man bought a Gamer PC in kit. Installation went fine but
>>> the Video Card gave a lot of hassle. He will change the Video Card at
>>> the store and come another time.
>>>
>>> 6. We have a subscription for a data card of 3GB with Orange.
>>> Before we figured out what was happening, the 3Gb was sort of
>>> completely used! The issue was that a guy needed to update of his
>>> openSUSE 13.1. I had to swap the 3G router SIM with my own SIM card L
>>> The operation went well afterwards. Phew!
>>>
>>> 7. A man walked in, he had us installing openSUSE 13.2 a few
>>> months back. He wanted a personal tuition, too lazy to read manuals….
>>> We could only afford a 20 minutes inset with a crowd gathering so that
>>> others could benefit as well.
>>>
>>> 8. OpenStreetMap was here as well, so fun!
>>>
>>> 9. The President of the association from North Normandy came
>>> round again with a list of questions. This is “pyramidal” learning….
>>>
>>> 10. I gave an inset on SuseStudio, two people that were running
>>> other flavors of Linux were converted here and then to openSUSE
>>>
>>> 11. A guy came in for a DVD, miracles can happen! I found a DVD in
>>> my DVD tray that was certainly forgotten there, I burned one for him
>>> and he walked away, very happy.
>>>
>>> 12. A man came with his son. Interestingly, we could not get the
>>> Games loaded with Leap 42.1 to work at all L /!\Note to self, need to
>>> check if this also happens in English /!\
>>>
>>> 13. A group of women (Sewing club next door) did barge, eager to
>>> find out what the excitement was about. I sacrificed my gecko in the
>>> hope that they could produce same ;-)
>>>
>>> a. Note: What is good to know, there are many clubs that run on
>>> Saturdays at the city hall, even if some people are “shy” to walk in,
>>> they know what is going on globally, they can be the best ambassadors
>>> in their immediate circles.
>>>
>>> 14. Interesting story: A young man walked in, he saw the
>>> announcement in the agenda of the city and had a kind of shopping list
>>> J The most urgent was that he had attempted to change his laptop
>>> battery and did not know how to put it back together…. Now, we had the
>>> problem of the egg and the chicken. No laptop, no openSUSE, so he will
>>> come early on the 12th so that we can attempt to fix it and install
>>> openSUSE.
>>>
>>> 15. The other ad hoc visitors and regulars were just kind to us J
>>> Some brought cakes in and we ordered coffee and soft drinks for
>>> everybody. We know how to entertain people J
>>>
>>> Some pending and (urgent) matters since my last report:
>>>
>>> 1. Help to get NUI RSS on http://planet.opensuse.org I am not
>>> good with Python et al !
>>>
>>> 2. A few bits and pieces for Xmas (Next Saturday 12th BTW) if
>>> you can of course :D
>>> * Table cloth?
>>> * DVDs?
>>> * Leap Tshirts?
>>> * Goodies?
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Jimmy
>>> PS. Please do not forget Ubuntu endeavors, their coalition is now four
>>> bodies in one, this proves that openSUSE/SUSE are very strong....
>>>
>>> On 19 November 2015 at 16:08, Jimmy PIERRE
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Greetings,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have been pretty busy for the last month or two and managed to get
>>>> an hour or so to-day in order to write these reports, so sorry!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Preamble
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 1st of January next year (around) Lower Normandy and Higher
>>>> Normandy will re become just one Normandy. The administrative Capital
>>>> will be ROUEN. This is good for us. (There is a development on this
>>>> event below).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Every year the associations have a show case and people come from
>>>> towns/villages of the County in September to see what they do and how
>>>> they can use the facilities. Having said that, every month the City
>>>> charges a few Euros to each association in order to finance
>>>> Electricity, cleaning, security et al.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Event 19 September
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This year again, it coincided with Software Freedom Day (International
>>>> event). Thanks to Douglas & Elisa, we had some posters and a few items
>>>> in order not to be sort of “naked” with the thousands of visitors, the
>>>> Mayor, the President of the council and other dignitaries….
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I carefully picked up 3 members plus me who have experience and
>>>> stamina in this type of event, Laurence, Olivier, Mike (came by train
>>>> from Paris). We started early because there were a couple hundreds of
>>>> associations fighting for chairs, electricty, wifi and other material.
>>>> Some intelligent people set their stands overnight!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This year, we wanted to hit hard because we were refused a stand at
>>>> RMLL in Beauvais (The old Novell/Microsoft deal or ordeal, the way you
>>>> look at it). We wanted to show our availability to the population,
>>>> local, National or international without hindrance.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That served us well, the politicians opened and went for a tour to
>>>> visit every stand. I greeted them personally and some did walk away a
>>>> DVD of SLED/S and/or a souvenir. Mike brought his 3D printing and
>>>> sadly did not get it to work with openSUSE, but the laymen had no idea
>>>> what was driving the 3D printer and this became an attraction which
>>>> comforted me that if you do not know about open source, when wandering
>>>> in the alleys, SUSE, Libre-Office, Leap etc. will not ring a bell, but
>>>> seeing a sort of metallic frame on a table with 4 people in green, you
>>>> want to know what’s up! This drove a lot of traffic and Mike also
>>>> offered free advice for people.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We had some nice encounters:
>>>>
>>>> a. A local association dealing exclusively with exchange of
>>>> services against services, no money involved wants to trade IT from
>>>> us. So when he will have no activities on Saturdays that we are in
>>>> business, they will come and continue on that path with us.
>>>>
>>>> b. Somebody came with his desktop to get it fixed, he was running
>>>> Ubuntu and had a few broken packages… Delicate situation
>>>>
>>>> c. We had the firemen (holding a stand as well) visiting us one
>>>> by one
>>>>
>>>> d. Our neighbor just opposite was a lady demonstrating yoga, so
>>>> IT was not her priority, nor her visitors
>>>>
>>>> e. Our next door neighbor was the team that runs a city secondary
>>>> site and they very interested that we came to their premises to
>>>> demonstrate openSUSE/SUSE….
>>>>
>>>> f. We had around 26 lapel pins left and a lady came round was
>>>> quite upset about wifi microwaves and while discussing with us took a
>>>> handful of pins, we were dumbed because she had no computers at home …
>>>> Is she going to promote us or going to sell them?
>>>>
>>>> g. A bit deceived with openSUSE on Raspberry PI 2, this is not
>>>> trivial compared to other distributions …
>>>>
>>>> We distributed to professional potential users SLED/S and 100 openSUSE
>>>> 13.2 DVDs that we burned ourselves over the weeks prior to SFD. Apart
>>>> from that, we happily gave away stickers, SUSE key rings.
>>>>
>>>> We showed Tumbleweed on a dedicated machine and Leap in Beta state,
>>>> openSUSE 13.2 of course, explained tens of times the various
>>>> differences also with other distributions.
>>>>
>>>> After talking to several hundreds of visitors all day, we did indulge
>>>> in liters of Coca-Cola, coffee and lunch was very frugal as we were
>>>> quite busy.
>>>>
>>>> We all ended at my place for dinner.
>>>>
>>>> In a nutshell: Very positive day, met people from all around Normandy.
>>>> Discovered some other associations eager to go in at the deep end with
>>>> openSUSE, and our ARM version for Raspberry needs to become foolproof…
>>>> We will do it again next year!
>>>>
>>>> Photos: not a lot, uploading soon.
>>>>
>>>> Event 21 October
>>>>
>>>> Here, this was the normal monthly SFD, but there were 6 people who
>>>> made appointments for particular questions/issues.
>>>>
>>>> Total visitors 30
>>>>
>>>> Here are the workshops (pre booked) that were held:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Installation of LAMP, then Wordpress and other stuff. All done
>>>> OK!
>>>>
>>>> 2. Recovery of root password. We failed, probably because
>>>> openSUSE is well armored J So reinstalled Tumbleweed, VGA card gave us
>>>> grief. So, we ended with openSUSE 13.2
>>>>
>>>> 3. The President of an association in North East of Normandy,
>>>> drove all the way to Rouen, he himself had tons of questions. The most
>>>> important issue was about transition from Windows to openSUSE, then
>>>> which desktop KDE/Gnome. So the full works: installation of openSUSE
>>>> 13.2 and some labs with LibreOffice, Firefox, Insets on ssh, ftp…
>>>>
>>>> 4. A young man had some doubts about using Linux, I personally
>>>> spent time with him and he will start to come every month in order to
>>>> better himself.
>>>>
>>>> 5. A person weary of Linux wanted an installation with a dual
>>>> boot *with* Windows 7
>>>>
>>>> 6. The best is yet to come! A guy walked in and wanted openSUSE
>>>> installed, (he phoned weeks ago) He already made a backup of “My
>>>> Documents” and wanted a new beginning.
>>>>
>>>> OpenStreetMap was present (as usual) and they trained people on using
>>>> OSM. The other visitors came to have a first encounter with Linux and
>>>> some wanted information. A few were also already running other flavors
>>>> like Ubuntu and came to see what’s new.
>>>>
>>>> In a nutshell: Very rich day indeed, now getting ready for 12th
>>>> December and would like to play father Xmas J Please clean/clear your
>>>> drawers and send me what you can spare J
>>>>
>>>> What the competition is doing
>>>>
>>>> It seems to me that someone got in touch with me in April last year on
>>>> LinkedIn and might have been monitoring the way we operate.
>>>> Someoneelse came in August last year and starting to help voluntarily
>>>> a bit when there were too many visitors. He started at the same time a
>>>> site with SPIP and has been mingling with other LUGs in Normandy and
>>>> complained that he did not get the passwords to directly input their
>>>> sites. So, I found him very much involved with a particular LUG
>>>> (purist of Linux) and that they were accepted at RMLL. Since then, he
>>>> stopped visiting us. He was present on the stand of the other LUG last
>>>> September and has a domain name now instead of hosting his SPIP site
>>>> with his Internet provider.
>>>>
>>>> Surprise, surprise, the other LUG, Ubuntu (France) and this gentleman
>>>> made a coalition and created ubuntu-rouen.org and now attempting to
>>>> organize install parties in Rouen (Rouen capital of Normandy). The
>>>> first one was planned last Saturday and cancelled because of the
>>>> events in France.
>>>>
>>>> RSS issue
>>>>
>>>> Here is what I wrote on the 6th September, I had a couple of answers
>>>> (thanks by the way) but I need that done so that I can use my talent
>>>> on other matters:
>>>>
>>>> QUOTE “I do not master the python and I have asked for help very
>>>> kindly and even opened two cases with support. They stayed opened a
>>>> few months then got closed. No way to enter this RSS
>>>> http://planet.opensuse.org” UNQUOTE
>>>>
>>>> There is enough visibility on the web, but this one is missing.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> @Douglas
>>>>
>>>> A few bits and pieces for Xmas if you can of course :D
>>>>
>>>> 1. * Table cloth?
>>>>
>>>> 2. * DVDs?
>>>>
>>>> 3. * Leap Tshirts?
>>>>
>>>> 4. * Goodies?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best wishes,
>>>>
>>>> Jimmy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 6 September 2015 at 13:23, <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Sunday 06th September, 2015.
>>>>>
>>>>> Greetings All,
>>>>>
>>>>> When I asked Novell about the future of NUI, I was given Kim as
>>>>> contact.
>>>>> Yes, I will pursue the path of French Forum with Kim on a separate
>>>>> thread
>>>>> now and not bother Kim with the running of NUI.fr
>>>>>
>>>>> Having said that, I have been cc you all and was sinserely expecting
>>>>> someone
>>>>> to come forward. The tam-tam is alive and well on Social networks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Three quickies:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. As per attached letter, the City is asking us to pay special
>>>>> attention to our stand.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. I do not master the python and I have asked for help very
>>>>> kindly
>>>>> and even opened two cases with support. They stayed opended a few
>>>>> months
>>>>> then got closed. No way to enter this RSS http://planet.opensuse.org
>>>>>
>>>>> 3. We do need goodies and some form of “uniform”
>>>>>
>>>>> In the light of the above, I will leave it to your goodwill to make
>>>>> these
>>>>> events for 2015 and 2016 great successes indeed. For your easy
>>>>> reference:
>>>>>
>>>>> 19 septembe rSFD - Journée Mondiale du LL
>>>>>
>>>>> 31 October 2015 – Monthly event
>>>>>
>>>>> 21 November 2015 – Monthly event
>>>>>
>>>>> 12 December 2015 – Monthly event
>>>>>
>>>>> Best wishes,
>>>>>
>>>>> Jimmy
>>>>>
>>>>> From: Kim Groneman [mailto:[email protected]]
>>>>> Sent: 06 August 2015 16:04
>>>>> To: PIERRE, Jimmy
>>>>> Cc: Schweikert, Robert; [email protected]; Brown, Richard;
>>>>> DeMaio,
>>>>> Douglas
>>>>> Subject: Re: Novell Users International French Chapter
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Jimmy,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am not in a position to help with meetings and events or marketing
>>>>> material. The only thing I'm in a position to do is to create a French
>>>>> online community for the French speaking user group. I can install a
>>>>> French
>>>>> language pack on our forums and create a forum for French language
>>>>> discussion. If that online community becomes viable and strong, then
>>>>> we
>>>>> would have a chance to show management and perhaps get more attention.
>>>>> Is
>>>>> that what you would like me to do?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Kim Groneman
>>>>> Micro Focus/SUSE Digital Marketing
>>>>>
>>>>> Forums, Wiki, & Corporate Search
>>>>>
>>>>> EMAIL: [email protected]
>>>>> PHONE: 801-861-7652
>>>>>
>>>>> ________________________________
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Jimmy PIERRE <[email protected]> 7/30/2015 4:29 AM
>>>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Kim,
>>>>>
>>>>> I was glad to read you last week but we had a family reunion and I
>>>>> could not
>>>>> isolate to get back to you. This obviously gave me more time for
>>>>> thoughts.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> There were some events which brought me to take contact with you. So
>>>>> let me
>>>>> start sequentially so that we get to an understanding of where I stand.
>>>>> I
>>>>> will copy Doug, Mary, Robert the same.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> There were the RMLL in Montpelier last year. NUI attended the last 5 in
>>>>> a
>>>>> row (Including Belgium and Switzerland), so as usual, I requested some
>>>>> goodies to drive down there 860 KM one way. Nothing left and also kits
>>>>> were
>>>>> given to other ambassadors including for that event. I was told to try
>>>>> to
>>>>> get some of these for the show. After releasing chocolate to kids, any
>>>>> hope
>>>>> of getting some back? I then started as previous years to get hold of a
>>>>> stand, no luck this time, they tried to put us with people we never did
>>>>> business before. In the light of this, I gave up! And sadly, no
>>>>> openSUSE was
>>>>> present. Sic.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> NUI carried out our monthly thing in the City Hall venue rooms.
>>>>> Business as
>>>>> usual. Of course, I personally work for Corporates and evey opportunity
>>>>> I
>>>>> get, I put SUSE and openSUSE on the table v/s other solutions (MS
>>>>> and/or
>>>>> RedHat or whatever).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> First Semester of 2016 is done and we had a lot of fun, new faces, new
>>>>> comers, new engagements. The City Hall closed theses activities for the
>>>>> Summer Holidays, no staff and no money (as well). We did not go to RMLL
>>>>> 2015
>>>>> in July because again, no stand, no goodies :(
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> A little bit of background on French culture. Last Sunday ended the
>>>>> Annual
>>>>> Tour de France of cycling. On the 3 000 KMs journey, there are Pom Pom
>>>>> girls
>>>>> throwing, yes throwing goodies at "spectators". But few of these
>>>>> "spectators" came for the race, only for goodies. What I am trying to
>>>>> say,
>>>>> it's not economically sound to supply goodies by thousands.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Most people nowadays buy PCs that are not equipped with a DVD player. I
>>>>> received an email last Sunday on a how-to. OK, I managed this one. I
>>>>> did
>>>>> look out for getting DVDs, pressed by some professionals but bank
>>>>> account
>>>>> would not follow. So the least that we can reasonably be able to do
>>>>> business
>>>>> as usual is a USB stick. I had a few quotes for stands kits, but the
>>>>> banker
>>>>> won't be happy neither . So in terms of branding, we are doing as Mac
>>>>> Gyver
>>>>> :)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Coming to a forum, if nothing exists in French, please go ahead and
>>>>> create
>>>>> one. I will either direct link from NUI.fr or URL rewriting, but in the
>>>>> end
>>>>> it will be found very quickly and SEO will work like a charm.
>>>>>
>>>>> However, we might need some training on what each product does and used
>>>>> for.
>>>>> Either via webminars or similar. There is always room in extending the
>>>>> community and build demos, insets or whatever.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Marketing
>>>>>
>>>>> We have an old French say: To make an omelet, you need eggs! This is
>>>>> not
>>>>> happening these days. I am not complaining, mind you. I have asked for
>>>>> a few
>>>>> t-shirts and SUSE SLE/SLES from SUSE for months now and nothing much
>>>>> happened. On the other end, I received some brochures, a handful of usb
>>>>> openSUSE and a few pens, etc. from Douglas DeMaio of openSUSE. First
>>>>> venue
>>>>> and our stock was on the minus side.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Have you noticed the propaganda on Windows 10? I have been following
>>>>> Marketing ideas for openSUSE on the ML. I do not know about other
>>>>> countries,
>>>>> but in order to captivate and motivate the troups, you need something
>>>>> spectacular. Leap 42.1 being *the* milestone for openSUSE, needs some
>>>>> particular attention. Milestone 1 is too early for demos, but in a
>>>>> couple of
>>>>> months, things would have moved forward a lot and it will be time to
>>>>> make a
>>>>> *joint* party everywhere we can in France on Leap 42.1. Ubuntu,
>>>>> Feudora,
>>>>> Mageia end others do this some informal, some very formal, but it's
>>>>> broadcasted and hammered down.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What I use for promotion: Twitter, newspapers, Google+, Facebook,
>>>>> Linkedin,
>>>>> Viadeo, NUI Blog, dedicated domain (jmll.fr), OVS, Agenda du Libre,
>>>>> etc. The
>>>>> only "media" that I have attempted to use: planet openSUSE. Despite my
>>>>> Ph.D,
>>>>> I still do have difficulties and for the last couple of years or more,
>>>>> I
>>>>> opened a case with the lads at openSUSE and it got sort of closed and
>>>>> therefore our events never appear there!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> So if this gets malleable, here we go...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Now, when people come to see, hear, feel Leap 42.1 what do they take
>>>>> away
>>>>> with them?
>>>>>
>>>>> How to decorate the stands?
>>>>>
>>>>> How ambassadors will be dressed?
>>>>>
>>>>> Backup from openSUSE Press people as we need some contacts to promote
>>>>> the
>>>>> event.
>>>>>
>>>>> What goodies will be available?
>>>>>
>>>>> Several programs exist for MS: MVP as Most Valuable Person and they
>>>>> meet
>>>>> yearly. Yes, Kim, we had BrainShare. SUSECon could be an alternative
>>>>> for
>>>>> Ambassadors?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Our next dates are as follows:
>>>>>
>>>>> 19 Septembre 2015 - Software Freedom Day (doing big this year outside
>>>>> in the
>>>>> City center)
>>>>>
>>>>> 31 Octobre 2015
>>>>>
>>>>> 21 Novembre 2015
>>>>>
>>>>> 12 Décembre 2015
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Finally, we need a backoffice support on translation. I am bilingual so
>>>>> any
>>>>> documentation in English or French is fine. Translation must be part of
>>>>> "the
>>>>> package" a release and all docs in native languages. Many Corporates do
>>>>> get
>>>>> transalation outsourced, it's cheap and they deliver the goods.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Just my two cents :)
>>>>>
>>>>> Best wishes,
>>>>>
>>>>> Jimmy
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 23 July 2015 at 16:00, Kim Groneman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Jimmy.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm glad to hear your group is doing well. I wish there was another
>>>>> BrainShare so I could meet up with you again. This reply may be a
>>>>> little
>>>>> long winded, but bear with me and I think it will help you understand
>>>>> where
>>>>> we (Micro Focus) are in relation to you. Maybe we can help each other
>>>>> out.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> HISTORY:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The NUI Program, as you know, was started years ago. NetWare Users
>>>>> International to Novell Users International. It never had great backing
>>>>> or
>>>>> funding from Novell, but for a while people thought it worthwhile so
>>>>> threw
>>>>> some resources at it. Mike Morgan, director of the Novell Corporate
>>>>> Events
>>>>> team was the last "owner" of NUI. As Novell's user base started to
>>>>> decline
>>>>> and Mike's funding was reduced, this was one of the things he decided
>>>>> to
>>>>> drop completely. Novell never announced it, just walked out and left
>>>>> existing NUI chapters on their own. I think Mary Mathews from Michigan
>>>>> still
>>>>> runs a user group too (I'm copying her on this email).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> About 5 years ago, I emailed the chapter presidents I knew of to see
>>>>> what
>>>>> interest there was. A few, like you, were interested in maintaining the
>>>>> relationship. Unfortunately, I couldn't get anyone else inside the
>>>>> company
>>>>> interested enough to support it at the time.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> COMMUNITY STATUS TODAY:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> When TAG merged with Micro Focus, the management expressed interest in
>>>>> giving a little more support to "community". To that end, they created
>>>>> a
>>>>> community focused group of employees in the Marketing organization. I
>>>>> manage
>>>>> our online support forums. There are a couple of guys that manage our
>>>>> social
>>>>> media accounts. A gal that manages the Cool Solutions stuff. A guy that
>>>>> runs
>>>>> our Academic focused community. We don't have a single community
>>>>> manager,
>>>>> but we've all been brought together as a team to establish and foster
>>>>> community. As Micro Focus management is making valiant efforts to
>>>>> improve
>>>>> things for customers and at the company, we're still at a point of
>>>>> tight
>>>>> budgets and personnel. What I'm hearing is that it may take a couple of
>>>>> years before we're headed in the direction we want to go. The
>>>>> shareholders
>>>>> believe in the vision thank goodness!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> OK, LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUR NUI CHAPTER
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> First of all, I'd like you to tell me what you'd like to see happen.
>>>>> I'm not
>>>>> in any position to help you out a lot but I'm willing to help you where
>>>>> I
>>>>> can. If you look at the Novell forums at http://forums.novell.com
>>>>> you'll see
>>>>> I'm trying to put together communities of vertical markets (government,
>>>>> healthcare, small business, etc.) That's still in it's infancy and
>>>>> struggling, for good reason and probably will continue to struggle
>>>>> until we
>>>>> can combine all Micro Focus community into one location, which is
>>>>> planned.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> One thing I could do for you immediately is create a private forum for
>>>>> your
>>>>> group. A place for French speaking users of Micro Focus products.
>>>>> Forums are
>>>>> searchable, sticky, and can be subscribed to so you get email
>>>>> notification
>>>>> of discussions. I don't know if that's something you'd be interested in
>>>>> or
>>>>> not. Another thing that could be done is to create a wiki sub page on
>>>>> http://wiki.novell.com for you to use to store information.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> We have a good working academic focused community and I've found that
>>>>> once
>>>>> such a community gets established, that community has clout with the
>>>>> company. Our executive management are willing to listen to the voice of
>>>>> a
>>>>> strong community, they're just not ready to throw a lot of resources at
>>>>> it
>>>>> right now.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> My personal opinion is that it once made a lot of sense to have just
>>>>> local
>>>>> community groups. I think with technology and the value in multiple
>>>>> heads,
>>>>> it now makes more sense to focus more on idea, industry, or language
>>>>> based
>>>>> community groups. That's not to say that local groups aren't of value,
>>>>> they
>>>>> are. I think they would work better as part of a larger focus group
>>>>> though.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm kind of rambling here, but again, let me know what you would like
>>>>> to see
>>>>> happen and I'll see if I/we can do anything to help. I have no idea the
>>>>> infrastructure you have going and what I'm offering may not even be
>>>>> needed.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Kim Groneman
>>>>> Micro Focus/SUSE Digital Marketing
>>>>>
>>>>> Forums, Wiki, & Corporate Search
>>>>>
>>>>> EMAIL: [email protected]
>>>>> PHONE: 801-861-7652
>>>>>
>>>>> ________________________________
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Jimmy PIERRE <[email protected]> 7/23/2015 3:21 AM
>>>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Greetings,
>>>>>
>>>>> Our association NUI.fr founded in 2001 is still doing fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> We were wondering how we can fit in the picture liaising with
>>>>> MICROFOCUS Community Manager.
>>>>>
>>>>> We operate on a voluntary basis, that is, members buy cakes,
>>>>> tea/coffee/soft drinks at our venues (monthly).
>>>>>
>>>>> If NUI is not convenient as name, do you have any suggestions? And, as
>>>>> NUI seems to have been dissolved, maybe all agreement with Novell are
>>>>> off now :(
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am totally bilingual and would love to have a quick chat with you.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best wishes,
>>>>> Jimmy Pierre
>>>>> President
>>>>> NUI.fr
>>>>>
>>>>>
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