Team, I'd like all of you to give a friendly welcome to Marco. I let him introduce himself with the answers to the questions I gave him... He also has a question for all of us on writing an article (see below), Andreas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have a couple of questions for you: * What have you done already for openSUSE? I started to help in the italian wiki. I found a lot of pages to be translated and some others to be fixed and again others to be reviewed. A lot of works to do there. And a solid and translated wiki will help a lot. Joyned marketing and wiki mailing list. I started to explain a first approach to openSUSE in my courses and presentations and promoting it. * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? I collaborate for a big community(lifetech.org) of specialists searching new systems to help the rehab of disabled people. My work is to find new ways based on Open source/Linux program/systems. I often present Linux new approaches in our meetings. Next step will be OpenSUSE. Improving the use of OpenSUSE in my regional LUG. You can't believe that but we have sometimes some old people. Connect it more with the FOSS Community. I would like to ask you and someone of the staff to write an article for our web free magazine published by infomedia about openSUSE, and better some specific use of it. Improve the connection with other italian magazines. Listen the experiences and new ideas of the other ambassador. I'm in the marketing mailing list. * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? Yeah, i'm doing that any time i can. * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? In one second i would say The quality of yours work. * Why do you love to do this? For some reasons but basically for the love of Open Source and the quality of OpenSUSE' project. * How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of experience? I started to use Linux about 8 years ago trying Gentoo, Mandriva, Ubuntu, and finally openSUSE near 2 years ago. Recently i started helping at wisearth project and helping translate it. Don't read this: I was asked to help in the translation and promoting of Linux Mint...i received other requests. I will study more OpenSUSE and want to approach next level. The ambassador program is currently pretty informal and we expect the ambassadors to organize themselves. So, please coordinate with other ambassadors on the opensuse-marketing mailing list: * share with them what you like to do * share what you did, e.g. what kind of event did you organize, how many people joined * share what you learned, explain what was great at your event, what you want to improve * create material that is usefull for you and other ambassadors as well *****I'll listen and read all theyr planes, but with all my activities sincerely i can't be online with the mailing list like the other guys, but i read all the emails . Also, as an ambassador, you're the expert on your country/region, so please share on the opensuse-marketing mailing list a bit about the openSUSE and the FOSS community in your country/region, e.g. what are their needs. *****I'll do that. We partecipate often at the Linux meeting, but instead of seat near the speakers we would love to seat shoulder to shoulder with the people that listen the speak. Seating there permits us to listen the pulse of the Foss Community. Gadgets help yes but we can't base our program only of that. Some days after the meeting gadgets can be forgotten. I listen often from the guru of Linux that working more on the culture of LINUX/FOSS will help more. *****Beyond the marketing mailing list i would need an email of someone of you i case i need some specific info about the project, like i said for example for that article that i would publish. For adding you to the ambassador list at http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_list, please tell me: your country, region/city and your user page in the wiki. ****My country is Italy, my region Veneto and my page opensuse.org/user:incjsp. I'm the user incjsp. ***Please i'm here in case you have other questions and wait with pleasure. Marco -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126