good point, we also need a name for it! :-)
Martin Lasarsch wrote: lizard +1 from my side, although i also like andreas's evangelist
We already have openSUSE supporters who are doing an awesome job of building a community locally. We want to find ways to assist those members, and make the most of their experience to expand to new local communities.
+1
Here is a list, this is a rough draft and feedback is highly appreciated/wanted.
*Who can be a spokesperson
- everybody who signed the guiding principles and is an openSUSE member Q: is this necessary?
imho yes, the "spokesperson" should be contributer and member
- everbody who likes to communicate with other people
+1 very important
Q: How to organize this? Is it "everbody can join", do we need a "master" spokesperson for the territory, how will it be decided? Of course we support: "do and you are it", but we probably can't support 50 people for Germany for example.
Difficult to decide, i think two maybe three per region (maybe make it dependent on people living there)
Q: is there something "below" or "above" a spokespersons? Do we need a (quite flat) hierarchy like country spokesperson - local spokesperson - assistant - helper? If yes there should be a definition of these terms.
There should be something like that imho.
Q: do we need a spokesperson council which makes decision if problems can't be resolved otherwise? Is the board responsible for that?
Would be a good point for the board, manage the spokespersons
*What does Novell provide? (since there is no decision on the budget so far, please don't nail us on that ... use them as ideas ...) public anyway to get feedback)
- welcome box (t-shirts, caps, Promo DVDs), to be resend with each new release
- special business cards (template or real)
- special t-shirt
- a special guide/howto to make it easier and better organized
- event box (portable booth, signage, banner, flyer, poster etc.)
- give-aways, spiffs
- certain budget for travel
- create a spokesperson day parallel or a day prior to the openSUSE conference
- single point of contact to drive the program and manage travel, DVD shipment, events etc.
- exclusive mailinglist for spokespersons to allign our efforts (albeit it's
+1 Generally i like the idea of a "spokesperson" program Cheers Jan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org