On Fri, 10 May 2013 18:43:02 +0100
Richard Brown
- Our openSUSE Ambassadors are being renamed to 'openSUSE Advocates', and the process is opened up so anyone can volunteer themselves as an Advocate without needing to be vetted by the Ambassador Welcome Team
I can see in the thread that renaming is the only controversy in your decision. Do we have some problems that Ambassadors program created in a public view of the project that should be alleviated by renaming? If not, then going back to Ambassadors, could be simpler then forcing name change. Word "ambassador", in any context than international politics, is used for more or less unofficial representatives. Word "advocate" could be better suited for (American) English to point out unofficial capacity, but it presents problems to translators that term "ambassador" did not have. Note also that word "ambassador" is the same word with slightly different pronunciation, or spelling, for the most of the world. We lose that with "advocate" as majority of translations will be different and not always recognizable by non-native speakers. Even openSUSE insiders will need dictionary to inform themselves. Besides, openSUSE is not recognized as legal entity in any jurisdiction. What can be official for one unofficial entity? I was part of one not so well thought out change (wiki) and after so much time it seems that some problems are removed, and other created, just as it may happen with renaming Ambassadors. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org