On Sunday 26 September 2010 01:27:43 Kostas Boukouvalas wrote:

On 25 September 2010 20:21, Nelson Marques wrote:

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I don't know how things work in other places, but a smile and a bold attitude usually does the thing.This is mainly my experience in Portugal, dunno abroad.

nelson

Yes, this is right, but this is my generic situation when I go asking something. Usually the combination of a damn paper with a signature on it is the "something more" you need in order to go to the same place for a second time and to have a "generic prehistory" in case the administration there changes.

On the other hand when we have to do with schools, always there will be the fear of the parent who is suspicious to the man who gives a talk to his child - and in my opinion this is fully understandable.

Henne wrote something about legal mumbojumbo - I know little about that and like to keep it that way. He's right in that the openSUSE Foundation should be of big help in this area, creating a legal entity which represents us. However, you can introduce yourself as an official openSUSE ambassador - you're on the list after all. If they ask for any credentials, how about your refer them to someone here who has? You could abuse the Board for this: just put suseROCKs in CC and say he's a member of the openSUSE Board. When you contact them, for example, you can CC him and say "hey and this is an openSUSE Board Member, he doesn't speak Greek but I just let him know I contacted you". He will probably just move the mail to trash or something but it might give them the impression that there is something official going on... I am sure Bryen would love to get more mails, especially if he can't read them :D Or you can use me, I have 'manager' in my title and while that doesn't count for much to us here, it might be just what they want to hear ;-) A final option would be to make up a new title. Let's say we make Carlos our Ambassador Manager so you can spam HIM :D Would any of that be helpful?

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Hi, On 9/26/10 1:48 AM, Rajko M. wrote:

On Saturday 25 September 2010 12:09:06 Kostas Boukouvalas wrote:

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*In case of need* because - as Stathis mentioned - many times we' ll probably have the opportunity to present openSUSE in schools and other organizations that may be somewhat suspicious about "the 'hacker' in front", what is the official bureau of the openSUSE community, recognized by law in the European Union by which we could have a signature over a piece of paper?

openSUSE is no official organization. It's an open source project. The board is working on making an official "foundation" that represents the project but this is not done yet. Can you tell us in which situation you would need a signature for what? This is the first time we hear about something like that. Please elaborate.

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In case there is not one, at who do we go for this? Novell?

If we would have some formal recognition to help outside people check credentials, potential to present openSUSE will be drastically improved.

We have a status like that: Membership. What do you think needs to be improved to make this more recognizable for the outside world? Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE http://www.opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org