13:00:02 <RobinEd> #startmeeting 13:00:02 <bugbot> Meeting started Mon Mar 23 13:00:02 2015 UTC. The chair is RobinEd. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 13:00:02 <bugbot> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic. 13:00:02 <RobinEd> #topic length of meeting 13:00:02 <RobinEd> #info this meeting will be a 1/2 hour instead of the customary hour due to the amount to be discussed and other commitments 13:00:16 <RobinEd> #topic agenda 13:00:16 <RobinEd> #info NLLGG Meeting 13:00:16 <RobinEd> #info VISA application letters 13:00:16 <RobinEd> #info marketing 13:00:16 <RobinEd> #info Other points by participants 13:00:17 <RobinEd> #info Next meeting 13:01:36 <RobinEd> All OK with this? 13:01:59 <IngeSv> #agreed 13:03:59 <RobinEd> hi :) 13:04:09 <RobinEd> Then I'll go to the first point 13:04:12 <RobinEd> #topic NLLGG Meeting 13:04:12 <RobinEd> #info last Saturday 21 March Hans and Robin held a talk at the DSutch Unix Usergroup (NLLGG) annual conference to discuss and promote the conference. Around 20 people attended and seemed interested to come after our talk. 13:04:13 <DocB> morning all :-) 13:04:20 <RobinEd> hi! 13:05:04 <Dominian> Oh good.. people here 13:05:07 <RobinEd> so, that's a quick story, so if you're OK, I'll move on already 13:05:13 <RobinEd> wow, busy :) hi! 13:05:38 <Dominian> Well, I can't stick around, but the only thing I had to say since someone IS here... the project mailing list.. I keep seeing spam hit it... Someone looking into that? 13:06:09 <RobinEd> the most likely suspect for that seems to me to be henne 13:06:21 <RobinEd> but i don't see spam on the list myself... 13:06:29 <darix> Dominian: we will try to look at it with henne later 13:06:40 <Dominian> darix: thank you.. sorry for the interruption. 13:06:46 <RobinEd> no problem 13:06:50 <RobinEd> moving on 13:06:52 <RobinEd> #topic VISA Application letters 13:06:52 <RobinEd> #info A template has been made for the VISA application letters. Ask robined (robinedgar@gmail.com) for a copy, it will be sent to SUSE the Netherlands, put into a letterhead and returned. So far 3 applications have been sent in. 13:08:21 <darix> do i need one from germany? 13:08:33 <RobinEd> nope 13:08:43 <RobinEd> only people on a special list outside of Schengen area 13:09:02 <darix> oki 13:09:02 <darix> ^^ 13:09:06 <RobinEd> so until now it has been Indian people who need a VISA invitation letter 13:11:10 <RobinEd> so moving on to a more interactive point 13:11:18 <RobinEd> #topic marketing 13:11:18 <RobinEd> #info We need more of it. Anyone can help by posting to their own blogs, social media.etc. Please help! 13:12:12 <DocB> What kind of marketing? 13:12:19 <RobinEd> #info we have 102 registrations 13:12:38 <RobinEd> so we need more people to register 13:12:49 <RobinEd> We need to push people to attend the conference :) 13:13:01 <RobinEd> We have some really cool talks and workshops 13:13:17 <RobinEd> so we can use them (and are announcing them on social media) 13:13:30 <RobinEd> but we're not getting that much more mainstream media attention 13:13:42 <henne> the latest oSC article is from march 5... 13:13:50 <RobinEd> and at this point 102 attendees is not enough 13:13:57 <darix> also it would be cool to finalize the schedule 13:14:03 <DocB> understand... 13:14:08 <darix> i will hand in my ssh talk after this meeting as lars asked me to 13:14:14 <darix> but then we should really nail that down 13:14:23 <henne> the latest tweet about oSC15 march 6 13:14:41 <RobinEd> we have a list of talks on https://events.opensuse.org/conference/osc15/schedule 13:14:51 <henne> that's nearly 20 days without any activity on the two main openSUSE news outlets... 13:14:51 <RobinEd> these have been accepted already 13:15:11 <henne> if you're wondering where you can do something 13:15:16 <RobinEd> agreed henne 13:15:26 <RobinEd> more needs to happen there 13:15:32 <darix> henne: you can do something for it too! 13:15:33 <henne> yes 13:15:37 <RobinEd> and it's not happening, so we need everyone to pitch in 13:15:48 <henne> everyone is no one 13:15:59 <henne> we need to find people who really drive this 13:16:11 <henne> who post once a day 13:16:38 <RobinEd> yes that would be ideal :) 13:16:51 <darix> henne: so you will do it! 13:16:52 <henne> so the question is how to find them 13:16:58 <henne> darix: no I wont 13:17:24 <henne> we have made several calls into the wild 13:17:29 <henne> with no outcome whatsoever 13:17:38 <RobinEd> several people have tried to pick it up 13:17:39 <henne> I guess it's time to change the approach 13:17:55 <RobinEd> but i think no one has enough time to pick it up on a daily basis 13:18:08 <RobinEd> so yes, new approach is needed 13:18:11 <henne> who tried to pick it up? 13:18:25 <RobinEd> but the old approach - giving it to one person - didn't work :( 13:18:57 <henne> the only one I have seen do something in this direction is ddmaio 13:19:10 <RobinEd> and he is on holiday 13:19:17 <henne> there you go... 13:19:35 <RobinEd> and then nothing happens, so it's a problem 13:19:52 <RobinEd> which is why we can't just have one person doing it all 13:20:14 <RobinEd> and which is why i'm asking people to help out as a more crowdfunded approach 13:20:33 <RobinEd> if you have a better idea, i'd like to hear it 13:21:03 <henne> find someone else 13:21:32 <henne> not crowdfunded 13:21:41 <henne> someone responsible while doug is away 13:21:46 <RobinEd> ok, so does someone else want to do this then? 13:23:19 <darix> sorry i will be busy enough with a full day workshop + infrastructure + video 13:24:36 <RobinEd> #action we need more people involved in marketing 13:24:43 <RobinEd> #action find them 13:24:48 <henne> From reading the news.o.o archives I would suggest Manu, Nenad or Kostas 13:25:44 <henne> George (etern4l) 13:25:48 <RobinEd> thank you. Kostas is helping out already but also doesn't have much time - he's very busy. We will ask others. 13:26:02 <RobinEd> I don't know George 13:26:22 <henne> nevermind. just ask him :) 13:26:26 <RobinEd> I will ask him too. 13:26:27 <RobinEd> :) 13:26:41 <RobinEd> Douglas will be back soon though and remain the "lead" on this 13:26:50 <henne> other than those I would directly approach people 13:26:56 <henne> not send mails to mailinglists 13:27:03 <henne> go to people and ask them for help personally 13:27:04 <RobinEd> yes 13:27:12 <Amey_India> If I can get raw data inputs from some1, I can help with writing draft version of news related to openSUSEconf. The person who has access to news.openssue can review my draft,modify it [if required] & upload it. 13:27:40 <henne> there you go 13:28:13 <RobinEd> The raw data usually comes from Doug 13:28:25 <RobinEd> We appreciate any help we can get though 13:28:29 <RobinEd> so thanks Amey 13:28:42 <RobinEd> In the interests of time, I would like to continue to the next point 13:28:56 <RobinEd> #topic Other points by participants 13:28:56 <Amey_India> No prob. 13:29:05 <IngeSv> I wonder when i will get a bit rate with my wireless ASUS USB-N13 of more than 150 Mb/s in openSUSE 13:29:17 <darix> IngeSv: wrong time wrong channel 13:29:45 <DocB> right place to talk about SUSE Studio? 13:29:47 <RobinEd> This is conference related 13:30:04 <RobinEd> if no other points, I will continue to the last point 13:30:12 <henne> this is the IRC meeting about organizing the openSUSE Conference 2015 :) 13:30:13 <RobinEd> #topic Next meeting 13:30:13 <RobinEd> #info The next meeting will be Monday 30th March 14 CEST / 13 UTC. 13:30:30 <RobinEd> Thank you all for your input 13:30:36 <RobinEd> See you next time! 13:30:39 <RobinEd> #endmeeting