Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (281 mails)

[Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2011-03-15 Chuck wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Jos Poortvliet
>
> <jospoortvliet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hey marketing team,
> >
> > Based on our IRC discussion yesterday a more extensive proposal,
> > connected to the mail I just send to the boosters with you in CC:
> >
> > Our ambassadors are often local (many don't even speak English, or
> > barely); so what we do with/for them has to be translatable, easy
> > to read or in their hands. They often spend not a huge amount of
> > time on openSUSE; so what we do for/with them should not take much
> > time. And the fact they are ambassador gives them some
> > credibility; so we should make that clear.
> >
> > Currently, we have an ambassador mailinglist. Some ambassadors are
> > on there; many are not (like most of the active people in Brazil
> > or Greece - despite those countries being among the most active
> > for us, as far as we know). They usually have a local mailinglist
> > (not on openSUSE infrastructure) which they use for planning and
> > discussing.
> >
> > First, I would like to propose to bring such mailinglists to
> > openSUSE infrastructure. That means - let ambassadors ask for a
> > language/region specific mailinglist. Not too many rules, if they
> > feel they need one for something, give it. But there should be one
> > limitation: at least one or two active people on that list should
> > be on the international ambassador mailinglist; and we need a
> > one-way, moderated mailinglist to reach ALL ambassador lists at
> > once for things that concern everybody.
> >
> > Second, let them create a localized ambassador team page on the
> > wiki (or on connect.opensuse.org, dunno what makes most sense).
> > Actually, it'd be great if they had an English page which is
> > translated - so each team (the Greek team, Brazil team etc) has a
> > page on the wiki; and it is translated in their language(s). They
> > can have links there to the mailinglist and the forum place they
> > hang out, as well as their IRC channel(s).
> >
> > This will allow countries/regions to build their own team. Yet, due
> > to the requirement of having 1-2 ppl on the international list, we
> > are connected.
> >
> > Now we need to make sure there is communication as much as
> > possible. The ambassadors should get the word out on what they do
> > - that's what the ambassador report stuff is for, which I mailed
> > to the Boosters team. I hope we can make that happen.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jos
>
> Jos,
>
> Who is on the booster team. I like to join.

? you know the opensuse boosters, the 13 guys incl henne, klaas, pavol 
etc? google it :D

> Pup