Well, this is not about technical stuff. Just an intermezzo ;-). Last week (October 27, 2007), the Indonesian Blogger created their event called PestaBlogger 2007 (Blogger Party, http://pestablogger.com). This is the first and biggest national blogger events in Indonesia.
After short discussion with my friend of mine in Indonesian OpenSUSE Community (http://www.opensuse.or.id), we get a plans to take this event as an opportunity to promote OpenSUSE by providing CDs and brochure. I contacted one company based on Bandung, Indonesia (Paris van Java :-) ) and got their support by providing 1000 CDs OpenSUSE with pre-printed Geeko logo. What's the interesting point is the party list of sponsors. PestaBlogger chairman told me that one of the main sponsors is Microsoft Indonesia. He said that the committee would not be accepted our request to attached the CD as one of the audience gifts but he provided another way, distributed CD without officially attached. We (me and some OpenSUSE-ID member) tried plan B. We brings the CDs onto the party. I met some bloggers (about 500 bloggers around of Indonesia) and the mission getting started, distributed the CD with one or two introduction words. The mission completed successfully with a good response. We got another advantages because Microsoft provided only about 10 DVD of Windows Vista and Office 2007 compares to 1000 CD of OpenSUSE 10.3 :-). Maybe in the next blogger party, OpenSUSE-ID and Indonesian Linux Community receive the equal opportunity to get listed as main sponsors :-). Next event is Bandung Comtech and Indonesia Linux Conference in the end of November 2007. Indonesian OpenSUSE Community officially invited by the committee and we hope we get better idea to promote this nice distro. I posted this story at my personal blog : http://www.vavai.net/index.php?/archives/22-PestaBlogger-2007-Blogger-Party,-OpenSUSE-and-Celebrity-Violin-Player.html Note : Indonesian OpenSUSE Community launched at July 23, 2007. Best Regards, Vavai -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
