Re: [opensuse-marketing] DVD Request

2013-07-24 Thread Sankar P
Where do you stay in India ?

It will usually cost more to send a CD than to download it. 

And why are you asking for this particular version ?

Sankar

>>> On 7/24/2013 at 07:33 PM, in message
, Anuraj
Pareek  wrote: 
> HI,
> 
> I stay in INDIA. I need your Opensuse 12.1 DVD shipped here. Due to
> cost issue,i cant download or purchase it. Can you please send me a
> coy of the DVD?
> 
> I would be happy to provide you my address if you can send it :)
 


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[opensuse-marketing] Publishing of openSUSE videos to youtube

2011-04-01 Thread Sankar P
Hi,

We have a youtube account opensusetv. Sadly not all the videos in 
blip.tv/opensuse are published to the youtube channel. For instance I dont see 
the hackweek videos yet. youtube has better viewability on various factors. Can 
someone publish these videos to the youtube channel also ? 

Thanks

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] help with news article, urgent!

2011-03-20 Thread Sankar P
> Hey guys I was distracted and hit 'publish' instead of 'save draft' on
> the Statistics news post. Straight away I changed it to 'private'
> since there doesn't seem to be any other kind of 'unpublish' button.
> 
> Very frustrating as the post is far from finished, I'm terribly sorry!!!
> 
> Can anyone please jump in and help fix (unpublish) and also finish writing 
> it.
> 
> Apologies again. I don't think I'll keep writing News, far too many
> ways for me to make very public mistakes!
 
I am sure you are convinced by now that you don't need to stop writing for just 
one small mistake :-)

For future, I suggest you write your blog posts in an offline editor like 
blogilo or blogtk so that you won't publish until you are sure you are done 
correctly.

All of us enjoy your writing and don't stop it. 

Sankar

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Request for DVDs

2011-03-14 Thread Sankar P
> Hi All
> 
> I plan to visit GNOME Asia Conf next month, I request for around 200
> 11.4 DVDs and a few goodies. I plan to distribute the DVDs at GNOME Asia
> Summit and my college both
> 

I am taking care of DVDs already for GNOME.Asia, thanks :-) 

I shall let you know the plans once they arrive.

Sankar

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[opensuse-marketing] Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] Annual Technical Festival 2011

2011-02-28 Thread Sankar P
>>> On 2/28/2011 at 02:46 PM, in message <201102281016.24243...@novell.com>,
Andreas Jaeger  wrote: 
> On Friday, February 25, 2011 17:35:02 Tanmaya Mahapatra wrote:
> > So I am requesting 600 opensuse PromoDVDS with atleast 5 T-shirts and
> > stickers any number feasible to meet my needs. opensuse DVDS may be of
> > 11.3 version.
> 
> We're out of openSUSE 11.3 media and it will take a few days to produce 11.4 
> 
> ones. I therefore cannot help at the moment,
> 

I have some openSUSE 11.3 DVDs with me. However, we have promised DVDs for an 
upcoming KDE.in event. Based on how many we distribute there, I can send the 
remaining to you. However, I don't think we can give 600 DVDs. 

Sankar 

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Will Stephenson in India

2011-02-09 Thread Sankar P
Hey Manu, 

>>> On 2/9/2011 at 08:02 PM, in message
<1297261949.2643.3.camel@sysbytes.sysbytes>, Manu Gupta 
wrote: 
> Hi All,
> 
> I was just wondering since Will Stephenson will be in India, maybe
> Sankar P can come to our college and give a talk or something for
> students here
> 
> Is it possible?
> 

Coincidence ? 

I and Will were just talking about a possible openSUSE ambassador meetup in 
Bangalore. Do you have some kind of programme in your college (FOSS Day, 
openSUSE Day, etc.) during that time frame (KDE.in conf timeframe) so that Will 
can come there ? I shall send you a different mail, involving some other people 
not in this list, regarding this topic.

Sankar

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] tube.opensuse.org and visibility of what we have!

2011-01-28 Thread Sankar P
> Yes, we have an openSUSE youtube account and any video uploaded to blip 
> automatically gets into the youtube account too so just use blip ;-)

There is something that I asked in #oS-boosters but somehow failed to keep 
track of it :(

The recent hackweek videos are available only in blip and not yet published to 
the opensusetv account (youtube). Can you ask the people to get this done at 
the earliest ? 

Thanks.

Sankar

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[opensuse-marketing] Sankar's Platform for openSUSE Board Election 2010/11

2011-01-11 Thread Sankar P
Hi Listmates,

As you might know I am planning to stand in the board election for
openSUSE this time. My election manifesto is available at:

http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_2010_platform_psankar

It will be great if you can look at it and share your
opinions/comments about it to me (not in the list). If you want to see
some items that I should have added but missed, please email me.

Also, I use this opportunity to ask You to vote for me, in this year's election.

The manifestoes of other contestants are available at:
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_2010

Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks.

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE University/Campus/Acadamie

2011-01-11 Thread Sankar P
>>> On 1/10/2011 at 06:36 PM, in message
<4d2b207202d39...@vpn.id2.novell.com>, "Johann Els" 
wrote: 
> Hi All, 
> 
> I was referred to the Marketing list on an idea I had last year December :-) 
> 
> 
> The idea 
> 
> 
> I had seven delegates yesterday in a workshop installing and configuring 
> openSUSE 11.3, What happed was that the delegates was doing their A+ and N+ 
> certification... They told me that they got more information in the workshop 
> than in a regular training campus and they want more hands on workshops! 
> 
> 
> So this made me think is there a way we can create some sort of 
> University/Campus/Acadamie where School leavers and Graduates can do a 
> Certificate "Workshop" in openSUSE and from there they can springboard to a 
> CLA/CLP/CLE certification? 
> 
> These chaps that I trained wanted to work for free just to get experience!!! 
> "I would think it is the same in the world" They have "Book IT Knowledge" but 
> no practical experience. These workshops I believe will help. 
> 
> 
> What is your view? 
> 
> 


There are some Novell Certifications for Linux that are popular. (RHCE is also 
very popular).

However, running a certification system is very very expensive not just in 
terms of money but also in terms of people and time. You need marketing, course 
registration, exams, etc. With our current strength, I fear this may not be 
possible to do as a large scale official project. We could focus more on things 
like Evergreen and Tumbleweed which require more helping hands. 

Please note that this is my personal opinion and I don't want to kill a baby 
idea. If you want to go ahead with this idea and create an interested set of 
people around this, please do it. My best wishes :-)

Sankar

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] 11.4 release

2010-12-16 Thread Sankar P
>>> On 12/16/2010 at 03:19 PM, in message
<201012161049.23638.jospoortvl...@gmail.com>, Jos Poortvliet
 wrote: 
> We should indeed contact the teams, anyone up for a few mails and a 
> follow-up? 
> Go to http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Teams and pick one or more teams, then 
> try 
> to contact them. I know, not everything is there - at least I have no idea 
> where the Xorg ppl hang out. Any suggestions there are welcome. Psankar has 
> experience with this so feel free to ask him and others who've been around 
> for 
> a long time (eg henne) for contact details. Feel free to use either IRC, 
> mail 
> or both.
> 


I think it is better if you (or someone from Novell) takes this (for X/gcc 
etc.)  We just have to send a mail to the internal research mailing list and 
ask in #suse . For KDE, Meego, LXDE etc. and on the desktop side, it is easy to 
get the people on the openSUSE channels itself, where there are a lot of people 
who can provide info. For kernel, we can use the opensuse-ker...@opensuse.org 
mailing list. 

Sankar

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] 11.4 release

2010-12-15 Thread Sankar P
> >
> > In a few months we have a release. That means there is work to do.
> >
> > Take this bug for example: 
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659659 
> >
> > Yes, we need to come up with a list of top features for the 11.4 release. 
> This
> > ain't an easy task, taking up a serious amount of time and discussion. Once 
> it
> > is done, a draft announcement can be made as well as other things.
> 
> We need to come with the features? Why isn't this reported to us by
> the sub-projects?
> Example... KDE reports their features, GNOME reports their features,
> and so on...
> 

It is one of the agenda items in today's meeting to discuss about GNOME 
Features from openFATE. Also, we (try to) maintain a list at:
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GNOME_features for next release. 

During the 11.3 release, For the release notes, we gathered this "list of new 
things" from the individual team(s) via IRC itself. IIRC, I gave it for GNOME, 
Bille for KDE, and then we just got hold of some kernel people over irc. So, we 
can repeat the same this time. I believe we may not need a face-to-face meeting 
just for this. However, any face-to-face interaction will do more good than 
harm :-)  There are a lot of problems with travel like Visa, cost, accomodation 
etc. However, I am not against face-to-face meetings, I believe it is better to 
spend that money for something else like oSConference, instead of 
release-marketing-planning. (my 2 cents etc. no strong opinions on this)

I agreee with Jos that a PULL model is what will work best for Kernel, gcc etc. 
for getting the list of new features instead of expecting them to come and give 
us the features. It is just because of the nature/style of the work. 

I volunteer to get the new features list (for gnome atleast), screenshots, 
review of  announce mail, spreading of the release link to reddit, digg, etc. , 
just like last time. I will work with everyone who have volunteered in the 
wiki. I think we as a team did an excellent job last time for the 11.3 release 
compared with the previous releases. It looks we will be making a even better 
release for 11.4 :)


[snip]
> > To do this, Bryen and me propose to have a meeting in the beginning of
> > Februari (either shortly before, during or just after FOSDEM).
> 
> That means we have 1 month (the shorter of the year, February) and
> barelly 1 week and half. Ain't this too late, considering the first
> part of your email where we still have to dig the features ?
> 
> > Bryen has set up a wiki page here:
> > http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:11.4_Marketing_Hackfest 
> >

Looks Good.

Sankar
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[opensuse-ambassadors] Re: [opensuse-marketing] Attachmate and openSUSE / open source community.

2010-11-24 Thread Sankar P
>>> On 11/24/2010 at 10:27 PM, in message
, Koushik Kumar
Nundy  wrote: 
> To tell the truth, what I'm most scared about is bugzilla. Maybe
> funding, branding, etc can get messed up, maybe they won't.
> 
> But if Novell and SUSE are separated, how would bugzilla.n.c, a very
> 'Novell site', remain functional? All bug links are dead. Instantly.
> 
> On a smaller scale, it created a temporary bit of havoc on wiki.o.o.
> In this case, it is potentially huge.
> 
> Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> 

No need to panic. Nothiing changes in Novell until the first quarter of next 
year. And no service will be dropped overnight without prior handoff plans. 

Sankar

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] OpenSuse Promo materials

2010-11-23 Thread Sankar P
>>> On 11/23/2010 at 10:18 PM, in message
, Strainu
 wrote: 
> 2010/11/23, Matt Hayes :
> > On 11/23/2010 11:09 AM, Alexandre Meirelles de Moura wrote:
> >> Hello People
> >>
> >> How I can get promo materials of OpenSuse for propagate this distro in
> >> my region ?
> >>
> >
> > Hello Alexandre!
> >
> > Please take a look at: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassador_kit 
> >
> 
> 
> Quote from there:
> 
> 
> If you need promo DVDs and other promotional material
> 
> * Contact xyz(as and when Aj lets us know) or send a mail to the
> Marketing ML
> * Promotional materials are DVDs and laptop stickers. We can also
> send tshirts based on availability. But please do not hesitate to ask
> for stuff. You may land up with your own geeko :D
> 
> No idea who xyz or Aj is, so... this ML looks like a great idea. :)
> 

xyz = Jacqueline Junghans at: promod...@opensuse.org 

http://lizards.opensuse.org/2010/11/22/please-note/

I will probably ask her to subscribe to the marketing, ambassadors and project 
mailing lists alone. 

Sankar

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[opensuse-marketing] Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] Invitation - FOSS User magazine

2010-11-14 Thread Sankar P
>>> On 11/13/2010 at 12:48 AM, in message
, Buddhika Kurera
 wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> I am the editor of the FOSS User magazine, in Sri Lanka, the first
> FOSS related magazine. ISSN 2012-7650.
> 
> I am planing to promote openSUSE through the magazine as well.
> So i created a new feature in the next issue in December.
> 
> I need one person who knows openSUSE from the beginning for a
> interview kinda thing.
> Please get me if you are ok with this requirement.
> 
> Please :)
> 

I have been with openSUSE since its inception, from our part of the world. 
However, on what lines will this interview be ? If it will be related to 
release, processes etc., I would say, it is better to interview someone else 
more officially responsible like Board members, AJ, Coolo etc. I will be ready 
for interview as a backup, based on your need. Thanks.

Sankar

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Hello - Newly Joined Ambassador

2010-11-08 Thread Sankar P
>>> On 11/8/2010 at 10:08 PM, in message
, Buddhika
Chandradeepa Kurera  wrote: 
> Hi All,
> 
> I am going to be added as a new ambassador for openSUSE. I am Buddhika 
> Kurera
> from Sri Lanka (Asia Pacific).
> 
> I am using SUSE in 2006 when it was know as SUSE Linux. I used Fedora too.
> In our country Ubuntu is the famous and then fedora.
> 
> I spread openSUSE in the university and love to do that because I am
> the only one
> who promote openSUSE. I was the president of the Computer Society in
> 2009, therefore
> I gave enough support and chance to promote openSUSE.
> 
> I am the editor of the FOSS User Magazine (the first FOSS related magazine
> ISSN 2012-7650) in Sri Lanka therefore most of plans are related to the
> magazine. I am planing to start a series on openSUSE. How to install and so 
> on.
> With parallel to this scheme I am planing to have a contest and
> deliver some fixed
> amount of nicely printed CDs to the readers. Then in the events
> organized by the
> magazine I am planing to concentrate more on openSUSE.
> 
> I am having experience with FOSS related work since my childhood. In
> numbers it is
> about 5 years now. I am an IT undergraduate where I see possible
> opportunities to promote
> openSUSE and as the editor of the leading magazine I have enough 
> opportunities.
> Therefore I would like to be an ambassador and get maximum support
> from the openSUSE
> and be little official with the project.
> 
> My user page on openSUSE is http://en.opensuse.org/User:Bckurera 
> Region - Asia Pacific
> Country - Sri Lanka
> City - Negombo
> 
> Hope you all help with me, please send any idea you having that ll
> help me to make this
> effort easy. And i like to have some interview with people who worked
> har to make openSUSE better,
> so please contact me I can arrange an interview. See you all.

Personally, Good to see someone new from APAC :-)   Welcome.  

I participate from India. There is an event FOSS.in (1) which will be happening 
in India in another month and if you can afford to travel, you can get to meet 
some of the openSUSE contributors in person, who are working from Bangalore, 
India.

Sankar


(1) - http://foss.in/

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Goodies / Stuff For FOSS.in

2010-11-08 Thread Sankar P
>>> On 11/4/2010 at 05:01 PM, in message
<1288870302.8370.10.ca...@sysbyte.sysbytes>, Manu Gupta 
wrote: 
> Hi All
> 
> I am Manu. I will be attending FOSS.in which will be held at Bangalore,
> India next month from 15th December to 17th December. I would like to
> distribute few openSUSE goodies like openSUSE DVDs, tshirts, laptop
> stickers or whatever it is possible for us ( I really dont know what, so
> its best if you guys decide)
> 
> My address is 
> Manu Gupta
> Room 4242, Xth Block
> MIT Hostels
> Manipal 
> Karnataka -576104
> 
> It would be better if someone in Bangalore can recieve the stuff and I
> can collect it from them as I will have other luggage to carry with me
> too, I will be travelling and have loads of luggage with me. If anyone
> wishes to, its good for me  
> 

I have few stickers but have already distributed all the DVDs. so if AJ/michl 
can send DVDs and other goodies to me, I can get it distributed to FOSS.in 

Sankar

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] blog

2010-10-27 Thread Sankar P
>>> On 10/28/2010 at 06:50 AM, in message
<1288228831.6413.8.ca...@magtheridon.opensurvey.it>, Nelson Marques
 wrote: 
> I've mailed Pascal to remove my feeds from the planet.
> 
> I'll take the blame for what happened. Won't happen again ;)

Have labels in your blog and subscribe only a label to the feed. That way, it 
wont be a either-all-or-none type subscription. You can label certain posts of 
yours alone to be subscribed to the planet like this. 

For instance, my planetsuse feed url is: 
http://psankar.blogspot.com/search/label/suse 

My 2 cents.

Sankar

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE conference

2010-10-23 Thread Sankar P
> Hi All,
> 
> Like some talks have already been there on lizards, can we have minutes
> of some more talks at osc. 
> 
> Thanks Andreas a lot for tweeting about some of the talks

I would say it is a little difficult to send mails or write blogs in the middle 
of a conference. The mood will be too meet and socialize with people and learn 
new things, visit places etc. As you said, AJ is doing a splendid job 
live-tweeting. I would say, let us wait for next week, when everyone has 
returned to their homes and then have a meeting in the respective channels 
(#marketing, #wiki etc.), to know what happened :-) 

Let the participants enjoy the week without hassles :-)

Just my personal opinion.

Sankar 

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Session at Manipal

2010-10-12 Thread Sankar P
>>> On 10/12/2010 at 10:15 PM, in message
<1286901945.5826.0.ca...@sysbytes.sysbytes>, Manu Gupta 
wrote: 
> Hi Guys
> 
> http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Manipal_session 
> 
> Have a look at the session I had in Manipal(India)
> 

Congrats. No photoes / videos ? 

This belongs more on the lizards.o.o imho ;)

Sankar

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] A review on our Marketing Strategies

2010-10-12 Thread Sankar P
>>> On 10/12/2010 at 02:36 PM, in message <201010121106.13500.co...@suse.de>,
Stephan Kulow  wrote: 
> Am Tuesday 12 October 2010 schrieb Andreas Jaeger:
> > On Tuesday 12 October 2010 07:19:49 Sankar P wrote:
> > > What packages does the promo DVD miss ? I would suggest, For download, we
> > 
> > Coolo, do you have a list?
> Sure.
> 
> > 
> > > should give isos of only:
> > > 
> > > 1) Live CDs of GNOME & KDE
> > > 2) Promo DVD (also acts as a Live DVD)
> The promo DVD is not a live DVD, it contains the two live CD images you have 
> 
> to choose from. A live DVD would mean no rpm packages and extra config to 
> choose the desktops live - and they would be installed in parallel, which 
> gives a less than optimial user experience as you have all tools duplicated.
> 

Ah okay. Thanks for the explanation.  Got it clear now. 

Sankar

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] A review on our Marketing Strategies

2010-10-11 Thread Sankar P
>>> On 10/12/2010 at 01:47 AM, in message
<201010112217.31444.jospoortvl...@gmail.com>, Jos Poortvliet
 wrote: 
> On Monday 11 October 2010 21:06:09 Manu Gupta wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I have noticed a couple of things during the past few days which I
> > will like to share with you all
> > 
> > Point 1 is
> > The way we write articles on release, its not as catchy as either
> > fedora or ubuntu or even mint
> > While ubuntu picks up small things like small buttons that are
> > available and stuff like that and fedora 13 has come with a lot of
> > more security tools, we dont have something special to say after all
> > how long can we survive by writing about YaST and OBS. Also YaST is
> > taken as a very difficult thing by most of the people even though it
> > is one of the easiest. We need to take an approach where we avoid
> > words like advanced and invite words like simplicity. This is missing
> > on almost every article I have come across. I think we can think of an
> > approach as and when our strategy is completed
> 
> I kind'a agree, we can be a bit more enthousiastic. It's probably our German 
> 
> roots making us a wee bit too modest :D
> 
> > Point 2 is a meager one but the Promo DVDs which are distributed to
> > ambassadors can be used to replace the dvds. The only reason I suggest
> > is that openSUSE Promo DVD = installation + Live GNOME + Live KDE
> > whereas openSUSE DVD at net = installation
> 
> So as we discussed on IRC, the promo DVD has less software in the normal 
> installer than the currently available installation DVD. It might be 
> interesting to offer the promo DVD as a download as well, especially for our 
> 
> ambassadors, but not as default.
> 
> So the question is:
> - what do others think
> - and provided others think it's a good plan, who can put that promo DVD 
> somewhere up?
> 

What packages does the promo DVD miss ? I would suggest, For download, we 
should give isos of only:

1) Live CDs of GNOME & KDE 
2) Promo DVD (also acts as a Live DVD)

Until now, I was of the opinion that the promo DVD and the DVD iso on the 
downloads site contains the same set of packages.

Sankar 

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Thanks for DVDs

2010-08-24 Thread Sankar P
>>> On 8/24/2010 at 04:23 PM, in message <201008241253.09950...@novell.com>,
Andreas Jaeger  wrote: 
> On Monday 16 August 2010 14:09:14 Kálmán Kéménczy wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > Thanks for the 11.3 DVDs!
> > Free delivery within Hungary is available from now.
> 
> How should we announce this in the best way for both Hungary and India?
> 

For india, I will send a mail opensuse-india google group that we have. Also, 
openSUSE 11.3 is given along with one of the leading linux magazines in India. 
Also, I watch for any DVD requests from India on twitter/marketing mails. 
Cyebrorg is doing an excellent job with marketing in India.  I believe what we 
do should be good enough already, may be we can add one more page in wiki. 

Sankar 
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Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Launch Party - Peru 2010

2010-08-17 Thread Sankar P
>>> On 8/17/2010 at 04:45 PM, in message <4c6a6f46.8080...@freemail.gr>, 
>>> "Stathis
Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr)"  wrote: 
> **** 17/08/2010 12:23 **, O/H Sankar P **:
>>>>> On 8/17/2010 at 12:56 PM, in message
>>>>>  
> > , Andres Linares
> >   wrote:
> >
> >> PD: I found this http://tora-no-andoresu.deviantart.com/#/d2qzgto and I
> >> posted there, could be a funny way to publish openSUSE.
> >>  
> > The PDF there does not seem to work for me. Anybody able to get a high res 
> image of gecko origami ?
> >
> > Sankar
> >
> >
> You must cut the pdf to the 2 sides. I made a mistake and tried it 
> without cut the paper.
> But after I cut it, it's perfect. I didn't use green colour but I will soon.
> 

I probably should have explained clearly. I wanted a high-res image of the 
already completed origami gecko. I dont want to practice doing it. I just want 
to set it as my wallpaper. 

Sankar
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Re: [opensuse-marketing] openSUSE Launch Party - Peru 2010

2010-08-17 Thread Sankar P
>>> On 8/17/2010 at 12:56 PM, in message
, Andres Linares
 wrote: 
> PD: I found this http://tora-no-andoresu.deviantart.com/#/d2qzgto and I 
> posted there, could be a funny way to publish openSUSE.

The PDF there does not seem to work for me. Anybody able to get a high res 
image of gecko origami ? 

Sankar

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Sending out DVD's in India and the rest of the world!

2010-07-27 Thread Sankar P
>>> On 7/27/2010 at 07:59 PM, in message
<1280240963.3085.281.ca...@linux-vpc2.site>, "Bryen M. Yunashko"
 wrote: 
> On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 14:02 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 July 2010 13:58:21 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > Me and some others received a request from Remya Reghu to send him a
> > > DVD with openSUSE. Now I'd love to do that, but afaik nothing is
> > > organized for this and sending it from the Netherlands is a wee bit
> > > expensive.
> > > 
> > > So I have two questions for yah ambasadors:
> > > - Does the Indian Ambassador team have something arranged for this?
> > > 
> > > In that case I can send one or more of you the address of dear Remya
> > > so you can send him a DVD. I have, btw, already asked him if it is
> > > possible to download and burn it or put it on a USB drive.
> > > 
> > > - do we, in general, have something arranged for this? Should we?
> > 
> > We're right now producing openSUSE DVDs to give away - but due to the 
> overhead 
> > of shipping and the cost of shipping and customs for a small amount, we 
> only 
> > send these out to events or to people that really share.
> > 
> > So, if somebody wants to send single DVDs in a single country for 
> individuals, 
> > we can send e.g. 100 DVDs for distribution.
> > 
> > > We *could* set this up, maybe find sponsors for it - either local or
> > > international. In some countries with bad network it might be worth
> > > the effort, however, in that case I would immediately add a couple of
> > > other things like a DVD with sources (so they can develop! Very doable
> > > with Git especially) and possibly additional software (eg codecs, if
> > > it's legal in said country).
> > 
> > Andreas
> 
> It's my understanding that some countries have a vendor that burns and
> ships openSUSE media for a nominal fee.  India included.  Perhaps we
> should set up a page listing these vendors or individual contacts in
> regions that people can reference?  Just an idea.
> 

There may be some problems with using Novell brand. The re-sellers might 
advertise themselves saying: 

Novell approved openSUSE re-seller. 

When in practice they are not. However, it may be just that I am being 
paranoid. 

Sankar  - Wearing my skeptical hat  - P

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Sending out DVD's in India and the rest of the world!

2010-07-27 Thread Sankar P
Yes. If the person is in India, I can get it distributed. Ask her to ping me 
(psan...@novell.com)

Sankar

>>> On 7/27/2010 at 06:03 PM, in message
<1280233996.787.85.ca...@bonsai.teegee.firma>, "S.Kemter"
 wrote: 
> Hi Jos,
> 
> psankar made the offer to distribute the media in India. So connect the
> guy to him.
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Me and some others received a request from Remya Reghu to send him a
> > DVD with openSUSE. Now I'd love to do that, but afaik nothing is
> > organized for this and sending it from the Netherlands is a wee bit
> > expensive.
> > 
> > So I have two questions for yah ambasadors:
> > - Does the Indian Ambassador team have something arranged for this?
> > 
> > In that case I can send one or more of you the address of dear Remya
> > so you can send him a DVD. I have, btw, already asked him if it is
> > possible to download and burn it or put it on a USB drive.
> > 
> > - do we, in general, have something arranged for this? Should we?
> > 
> > We *could* set this up, maybe find sponsors for it - either local or
> > international. In some countries with bad network it might be worth
> > the effort, however, in that case I would immediately add a couple of
> > other things like a DVD with sources (so they can develop! Very doable
> > with Git especially) and possibly additional software (eg codecs, if
> > it's legal in said country).
> 
> 
> br gnokii
> 
> 
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