12:08:48 <suseROCKs> #startmeeting 12:08:48 <bugbot> Meeting started Thu Jun 17 12:08:48 2010 UTC. The chair is suseROCKs. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 12:08:48 <bugbot> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic. 12:08:58 <suseROCKs> #chair AJaeger 12:08:58 <bugbot> Current chairs: AJaeger suseROCKs 12:09:01 * michl woke up 12:09:11 <suseROCKs> AJaeger, am I getting better at this? :-) 12:09:35 <michl> suseROCKs: even you get better after years of excercises 12:09:39 <suseROCKs> #topic openSUSE Marketing Team meeting in progress | Topic openSUSE Conference marketing status 12:10:03 <suseROCKs> Alrighty, let's get to it folks... 12:10:27 <suseROCKs> First of all, as I was on the road frequently recently, michl did we announce RFP to any media yet? 12:10:52 <michl> suseROCKs: help me - RFP ? 12:11:06 <suseROCKs> Request for Participation (papers) for the conference 12:11:32 <michl> a) the media reads news.o.o 12:11:38 <suseROCKs> You had the AI to let media know about it and get it published in some calendars 12:12:00 <michl> b) I had a conversation with LinuxNewMedia at LinuxTag, they want to become Media Partner for the conference 12:12:05 <AJaeger> btw. do we speak on www.opensuse.org about the conference yet? 12:12:34 <michl> and yes, I'll contact other media as well 12:12:57 <SJ> is LinuxNewMedia 's reach good ? 12:13:05 <SJ> (Curious) . 12:13:14 <michl> in Germany way more then good 12:13:18 <suseROCKs> let's make sure we are published in LWN's community calendar and umm I think its called calendardulibre is another one? 12:13:21 <michl> I'd say in Europe good 12:13:31 <michl> and they distribute their magazines word wide 12:13:37 <SJ> michl, cool :-) . 12:13:47 * suseROCKs high-fives michl for engaging LinuxNewMedia 12:13:54 <michl> and have now for 2 years or so an office in NA to push their magazines there as well 12:14:20 <suseROCKs> Guess I better buy their magazine then :-) 12:14:32 <SJ> and post a report :) 12:14:58 <suseROCKs> AJaeger, I think if the conf committee feels their conf page is ready, we should definitely put a banner or something on www. to point people to it. 12:15:51 <suseROCKs> michl, What do we need to do to work with LNM? 12:16:21 <suseROCKs> Could we get free adspace for the oonference in their magazines? 12:16:27 <michl> exchange emails, feed them with content 12:16:34 <michl> so they can write about the conference 12:16:41 <michl> suseROCKs: yes 12:17:13 <suseROCKs> ok so a) we need to make sure Klass feeds us information regularly about conference updates, and b) we need someone to design adspace material to give to LMN 12:17:27 <suseROCKs> This is good. I'm glad to hear all this. 12:17:53 <gnokii_> so now I am her but it isnt 12 UTC 12:18:16 <suseROCKs> It isn't? 12:18:43 <gnokii_> michl "the media" reads not all news.o.o its funny Hilzinger doesnt 12:19:44 <gnokii_> second LNM did wrote in LC and is mostly that LM print it online too, and they did 12:20:17 <suseROCKs> gnokii_ has a point. We can't completely rely on news.o.o. We should draft up a press release to send to media announcing the RFP 12:21:17 <michl> did I say that I love abbrevations? 12:21:37 <michl> we shouldn't and don't rely on news.o.o 12:21:57 <gnokii_> michl LC == Linux-community.de, LNM == Linux New Media 12:22:08 <gnokii_> LM == Linux Magazin 12:22:11 <michl> yes, we need to reach out to multipliers of any kind directly 12:22:38 <suseROCKs> (which means we need to start developing our own database of multipliers) 12:23:01 <michl> suseROCKs: hah, you said the bad word - database 12:23:17 <suseROCKs> ok paper and pen. Better? :-D 12:23:31 <gnokii_> means multipliers journalists? 12:23:44 <michl> in michl's dream there is a database which is accesible for a defined group of people to add contacts 12:23:50 <suseROCKs> multipliers = journalists and anyone else who has ability to spread the word 12:24:24 <michl> from interested users, to contact persons at events/universities etc, key people in our community to press people 12:24:29 <michl> all flagged 12:24:37 <gnokii_> michl do u know such things like pressebox? 12:24:40 <suseROCKs> not flogged? :-) 12:25:02 <michl> gnokii_: I hardly now anyhting 12:25:07 <michl> gnokii_: what's pressebox 12:25:08 <michl> ? 12:25:49 <gnokii_> pressebox is a service for journalists and press relation manager, u have a PM so pu it in there 12:26:05 <gnokii_> http://www.pressebox.de/ 12:26:18 <michl> looks like pretty German, right 12:26:18 <gnokii_> http://www.openpr.de/ 12:26:19 <michl> ? 12:26:33 <gnokii_> yes thre are lot mor of such services 12:26:44 <suseROCKs> and there is linuxpr.com 12:26:44 <michl> but for Germany AND the openSUSE conference definitely very good 12:27:27 <suseROCKs> gnokii_, what about calendars? There is lwn and dulibre (sp?) Do you know of other critical calendars we can add to? 12:27:49 <gnokii_> yes linux-events.de e.g 12:28:00 <gnokii_> its driven from LNM 12:28:08 <suseROCKs> great! 12:28:51 <suseROCKs> ok so let's shift for a moment to gnokii_ You had a number of things you wanted to cover as well. What can we do to help you? 12:29:21 <gnokii_> make an event on linkedin because I am not well connected there 12:29:35 <suseROCKs> ok I will do that this weekend for sure 12:29:47 <suseROCKs> #action suseROCKs to create linkedin event for openSUSE conference 12:30:21 <suseROCKs> What else? 12:30:21 <gnokii_> second join the events on xing, fb whatever that ur contacs see u go there 12:30:47 <suseROCKs> ok, good advice 12:31:41 <gnokii_> third follo @openSUSEConf, and give him tomorrow FOLLOW 12:32:01 <suseROCKs> him who? 12:32:31 <gnokii_> tommorrow is friday I thaught u are specialist of "social media marketing" 12:32:55 <suseROCKs> no I was just asking who "him" is. I'm not sure who you are talking about. 12:33:15 <gnokii_> the account openSUSECOnf 12:33:20 <suseROCKs> oh 12:33:43 <SJ> gnokii_, do you handle openSUSEConf account ? 12:33:47 <suseROCKs> just some grammar advice, if its not a person, you should call it "it" if you call it him or her, it gets confusing. 12:34:52 <AJaeger> @openSUSE will tweet tomorrow: "Follow @openSUSEconf to keep updated about the openSUSE Conference #FF ^AJ" 12:35:00 <suseROCKs> gnokii_, ok so any more items? 12:35:03 <gnokii_> no not #FF 12:35:13 <AJaeger> What else? 12:35:19 <gnokii_> use FOLLOW because behind that is a bot ;) 12:36:00 <AJaeger> #followfriday ? 12:36:29 <gnokii_> I have no more ideas right now as fill the conference in every calendar u find 12:37:01 <suseROCKs> gnokii_, Tell you what. I have a small window of time later today that I might be able to do the linkedin event 12:37:21 <suseROCKs> if I do that, do you want to send email to the ML with your listed items above? So more people are aware to spread the word? 12:39:24 <gnokii_> next thing we need before the call ends a really good keynotspeaker so that we have an new press message 12:39:57 <suseROCKs> is that for us to work on or is that something for the conference committee to work on? 12:40:26 <michl> I'd say anyone with an idea should speak up 12:40:50 <suseROCKs> yes but is it a marketing team task specifically is all I'm asking. i don't want any toe-stepping here. :-) 12:40:52 <michl> I know Klaas has some ideas but he's on vacation this and the following week 12:41:26 <SJ> who do we focus ? (inside Novell or outside Novell) 12:41:38 <SJ> or openSUSE ? 12:41:41 <suseROCKs> SJ, most likely outside 12:41:47 <SJ> okay !. 12:41:51 <michl> the program committee should know it and at the end I'd say they should do the contact and assemble it to the conference where it fits 12:41:56 <suseROCKs> no there's no one in openSUSE right now that can be a major attractor to the world for a keynote speaker :-) 12:42:10 <SJ> :) 12:42:12 <suseROCKs> michl, perfect, that's what I wanted to clear up. 12:42:49 <SJ> one can ask the LM's or LNM's to provide some contacts ? (building some good relationships :) ) 12:42:57 <gnokii_> michl +1 for speak up 12:43:12 <SJ> contact person from LM's or LNM's * 12:43:30 <suseROCKs> SJ, no that makes us look needy 12:43:48 <SJ> ohk . 12:43:52 <suseROCKs> There's plenty of good well known people in the FOSS community we can think of without needing LNM's help 12:44:05 <suseROCKs> or even Bill Gates. :-D 12:44:13 <SJ> great :-) 12:44:25 <michl> or James Utzschneider 12:44:25 <suseROCKs> ok so the only conference wiki page we have is the RFP one, we don't have a general conference page yet? 12:44:37 <gnokii_> michl u talked with that M$ guy utzschneider? 12:44:53 <michl> gnokii_: no, just visited the key note 12:45:29 <michl> and see a) he's a good talker and b) there are relations between his department and the Linux Community 12:45:55 <michl> FYI - james is heading the open source department at Microsoft 12:46:31 <suseROCKs> Do we want a banner yet on www.opensuse.org? We have no general conference page yet (afaict) 12:46:33 <gnokii_> michl u saw prof. riehle? 12:46:50 <michl> gnokii_: this brother as well, yes 12:47:43 <michl> suseROCKs: yes, even without a good or even no conference page a banner will tell the world there is a conference and the date 12:48:03 <michl> currently we even could just link to the call for papers page 12:48:11 <gnokii_> think I fit very well Education & Science 12:48:11 <suseROCKs> michl, which is good, but I'm only concerned people will be frustrated that they can't learn more 12:48:11 <michl> as this is what we're currently looking for 12:48:17 <gnokii_> he I menat 12:48:23 <suseROCKs> but yeah linking to RFP should be fine 12:48:25 <suseROCKs> or CFP I guess 12:48:49 <gnokii_> there are banner, I made a lot of them and send them to dragotin 12:49:08 <suseROCKs> any place we can look at them? 12:49:34 <suseROCKs> what about adspace for LNM? Who can design that? 12:50:22 <gnokii_> designing it isnt the problem I did that very often just get the space first ;) 12:50:31 <suseROCKs> (Note to everyone: I have to leave for another meeting in 10 minutes, but do keep talking if you all feel like it. Great job all!) 12:50:42 <gnokii_> mostly they like to called "Media Partner" for it 12:50:57 <suseROCKs> gnokii_, As michl already said, they will give us the space so I interpret that as already gotten. 12:51:21 <michl> suseROCKs: lets say, on its way 12:51:27 <suseROCKs> ok 12:51:57 <suseROCKs> so michl You'll update us on any new information with LNM 12:52:17 <suseROCKs> I will do the LinkedIn Event 12:52:40 <suseROCKs> gnokii_, will send email to the ML annoucing the different social media creatures. 12:52:50 <suseROCKs> SJ, will clean his room. 12:52:59 <suseROCKs> anything else? 12:53:04 <SJ> like always :) 12:53:37 <SJ> nope 12:54:32 <gnokii_> I think thats all what we can do right now 12:54:39 <suseROCKs> ok great. 12:54:50 <suseROCKs> And thanks gnokii_ for your leadership on the conference stuff. 12:55:05 <suseROCKs> I will end the meeting now 12:55:08 <suseROCKs> #endmeeting