On Thursday 26 May 2011 19:27:53 Pavol Rusnak wrote:
On 05/26/2011 07:09 PM, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
I think he meant that conferences and such are discussed by the ambassadors on the ambassador list. The events boosters go to are discussed elsewhere.
I think this is correct, right? Boosters are not ambassadors and ambassadors are not boosters. BUT ambassadors can discuss things on -boosters ML and boosters on -ambassadors ML. Or are you suggesting that we should discuss all events we go to on ambassadors list?
Well, at least let them know, I guess. It's true that the two are different and I think the whole thing isn't really worth more than 2 mails (hehe) but Bryen was probably also talking in more generic terms. The boosters are doing quite a bit of marketingy and ambassadory work - and frankly, I think our ambassadors can learn from what you guys set up at LinuxTag and Fosdem. The selling of beer which was done at FOSDEM we took to SCALE (but with t-shirts, those silly americans have a problem selling booze at a conference) and it was greatly appreciated, to give an example. And I'm sure it is good if you guys see what some of our ambassadors are doing - with far less resources in terms of materials esp, by the way. Moreover, YOU guys know the talk - the details, the reasons-for-openSUSE. That are things our ambassadors sometimes lack. Again an area where you could help. The boosters have a bit of a special position as it's your *explicit* goal to work on 'boosting' openSUSE. Now if you want to 'boost' packaging, you'd join the factory list too, right? I just think our ambassadors would profit from some of the things you guys do. And we in marketing in general. But I also realize that extra mail is probably not what you look for. Then again, I suppose you have a good mail client which can handle that, yes? ;-) cheers, Jos