- openSUSE Ambassadors

Ambassador programs research
by Barry Nichols 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

On 8 August 2010 22:31, Bryen M. Yunashko <suserocks(a)bryen.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 22:47 +0100, Barry Nichols wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> As discussed in the recent meeting, I have spent some time looking >> into other projects Ambassador programs, my findings are listed below: >> >> Fedora and GNOME both had a great deal of information regarding their >> Ambassadors and whilst I was unable to find Ambassador programs for >> other projects, many of them have had talk about starting one. Also QT >> has a fairly new Ambassador program. >> >> GNOME: >> - Business Cards >> - Ambassador shirts (uniform) >> - Event travel sponsorship >> - Banners, Posters & Flyers >> - Event box (everything needed to set up an event booth) >> - Presentation slides >> >> Fedora: >> - Business Cards >> - Ambassador shirts (uniform) >> - Event travel sponsorship >> - Banners, Posters & Flyers >> - Event box (everything needed to set up an event booth) >> - Presentation slides and slide templates >> - Mentors (Ambassadors who have been approved to mentor new and >> potential Ambassadors) >> - T-shirts, Stickers, Pens, etc. (and a list of local vendors who can >> produce them to save on shipping costs) >> >> QT: >> - Allowed to use the ambassador logo >> - Access to merchandise/giveaways >> - Ambassador shirt (uniform) >> - Must have proven QT skills >> >> Both Fedora and GNOME had good Ambassador web-pages which make the >> aforementioned resources very easy to apply for/download. >> >> >> -- >> Barry D. Nichols > > Barry! > > You did a great job doing homework. Really appreciated. > > I n otice all the programs you have looked at are "Ambassador" named > programs. Do you have any insight into other ambassador-type programs > like Ubuntu's LoCo program? I'd like to see a bit more. > > Anyone else have suggestions what programs to look at? > > Thanks, > Bryen > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org > > Hi, Good idea, I didn't know about 'Loco' I'll take a look at it and CentOS' promo team program at the weekend. Unless someone else has some free time and would like to check them out sooner. -- Regards, Barry D. Nichols openSUSE {Ambassador, Member} Email: Barry(a)openSUSE.org IRC: Barry-Nichols -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Welcome Siddarth P as ambassador to India
by Andreas Jaeger 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

Team, please welcome Siddarth warmly as new ambassador! Andreas ================================================================ Dear sir, I am very glad that you have given me a chance to join as an ambassador. I have answered your questions and those answers are given below * What have you done already for openSUSE? In our college i along with my friends have been running a free opensource community known as "SFOSS" for the past six months in order to create an awareness about free and opensource softwares. Lot of students were taking part in that campaign and i have promoted users to use openSUSE. I used to distribute copies of openSUSE among those people. Initially people hesitated to use openSUSE because of the absence of proprietary multimedia codecs in the official version of openSUSE. so one of the members of our community P.SIBI(psibi200(a)gmail.com) wrote a multimedia script to enable the proprietary multimedia codecs in openSUSE and i distributed the script all over my college. so many people started using opensuse. * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? As a part our community we are running a website "www.sfoss.in" to promote the usage of opensource softwares and to spread the awareness about opensource. In future i planned to publish articles about the openSUSE and its elegance so as to make more people aware of openSUSE and to promote more people to use openSUSE. * What do you need to start promoting openSUSE? My aim is spread to spread the usage of openSUSE throughout my region. so I need some more members to join in our community inorder to spread campaign about openSUSE and to promote openSUSE. And i am working to increse the population of our community. * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? The elegance and the user-friendliness of openSUSE keeps it apart from other linux distributions. The way the openSUSE linux distribution is configured is really mind-boggling. This is the best kept secret of openSUSE. * Why do you love to do this? I love to do this because i really love openSUSE. I want to spread the knowledge and happiness gained from using openSUSE to all over the world. so i love to do this. The above answers are really true to my knowledge and if i am given a chance to work as an ambassador i will work with my soul to promote openSUSE. I will be waiting for your kind consideration. ----------------------------------------- -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){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

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Our Ambassador Meeting today! Reports, logs and next steps
by Carlos Ribeiro 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

Hello Ambassadors and friends. First, I'm so glad about our meeting today, we have a good quality in numbers of participants and contents. Thanks for everyone! Just for formalizations and to let everyone able to understand what we are planning to do for the openSUSE Ambassadors Program, I updated our Ambassadors Meeting page with a link to the meeting log. See the bottom lines of the page http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_meeting http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-marketing/2010/opensuse-mar… Really thanks for Bryen, Andreas for help us to make this meeting happens. Thanks again for the VERY GOOD contributions sent by lupinstein, sakana, HelioReds, alexbariv, Barry-Ni, kknundy, kkemenczy, rtyler, oprea_luci, manugupt1 and gnokii. Sure, all of you had sent very valuable contributions and points to the table. Some action that we got are listed bellow: * CarlosRibeiro help to define/purpose a better plan for Ambassadors reports * Every ambassador should aggregate her/his blog on planet.opensuse.org * Carlos, lupinstein and sakana will work as volunteers to help running the ambassador program smoothly * CarlosRibeiro sends a mail to the Ambassadors ML, asking about what is missing on Welcome page * Barry-Ni` to research other Ambassador programs for comparative purposes, and if possible find volunteers to help him with research * Carlos will publish topics for the next Ambassadors meeting at Aug. 17th, same hour. and some good points and infos that we talked about and we need to take care about it: * Not enough Media to distribute during events for 11.2 * Install fest works great but needs more attention * We decided that more interactions between Ambassadors is needed. * Need more than one method of channel to communicate with ambassadors * Not enough Media to distribute during events for 11.2 * Lack of reports after Ambassadors attend events * Next meeting - August, 17 sounds good for most part of the Ambassadors Team ? Some fellows said that we have no votes up there, then... I would like to invite everyone on this list to vote some topics to help with directions for the next meeting, please we only need "Yes" or "No" as answers, letting more details about topics that WE pickup as valid for the next meeting, because next meeting will not be if "does we need or not" will be "how to be do it" * Does we need to create templates for productive and collaborative reports? * Does we need to develop Ambassadors welcome and first steps landing page? * Does we need to take a look any free and available collaboration tool for Ambassadors program? * Does we like to have Ambassadors Uniform? * Does we believe is necessary to look around and have a brief idea of how other distros are working with similar Ambassadors program? * Does we need to know who is using openSUSE (corporations). Is this kind of information important for us? Last but not least, I would like to invite all Ambassadors to update their respective Users page, with a little introduction about them selfs to help us to know a little bit more about each other ;-) and be more productive next meeting. Best regards for everyone CarlosRibeiro -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Budapest release party from ambassador pov
by Kálmán Kéménczy 09 Aug '10

09 Aug '10

Hi All, Short report from the openSUSE 11.3 release party Budapest, Hungary from an ambassador point of view. organize - used doodle for registration and best schedule: http://tinyurl.com/opensuse-113 - from 21 registration 16 people came (good ratio), one of them traveled 400 km from Slovakia and one of them from London (don't ask me how or why :) but it was great - talked to Novell Hungary marketing and they gave me a room in Novell office (attendees liked it, they talked about it as a sanctuary:) and paid the food and drink (with 2 barrels of party beer) - all of them about 100 EUR - talked to a pizza delivery company that I will order and asked them the highest piority for my forthcoming order (this is a kind of on-demand food - no worries about too much or not enough food (arrived within 35 minutes) - created a menu card to help me about the order: http://picasaweb.google.hu/lh/photo/xlSoEVmnPdZOckeEpLMusQ?feat=directlink (printed at home on my pixma) - requested some marketing gifts from novell... they gave me balls - http://picasaweb.google.hu/lh/photo/PTOC5gkKamlNxZorLOwGgg?feat=directlink , pens http://picasaweb.google.hu/lh/photo/9gvovkMqWYc0v19lYINApg?feat=directlink and 8GB pendrives! http://picasaweb.google.hu/lh/photo/7s0So8mTiiBp3vXHZPlKJw?feat=directlink - unfortunately DVDs haven't arrived so we copied a specialized openSUSE 11.3 install kit (starts in Hungarian and you can install it from the pendrive without any further settings). There was 11 + 1(dot) + 3 = 15 pen drive and it was enough http://picasaweb.google.hu/lh/photo/bWVbJDm9TC-15GubAzL_pg?feat=directlink. - took pictures by my phone http://picasaweb.google.hu/kkemenczy/OpenSUSE113OsszejovetelBudapest - it was not a good idea, few pictures not so good quality, next time I will ask someone to take care of this talk - we did not talked about openSUSE 11.3 features (well know thing), but about development and localization process - we agreed we continue the Reference guide translation as soon as it will release for 11.3 (11.2 was a big success: http://hu.opensuse.org/11.2/Dokument%C3%A1ci%C3%B3 - no other distributions has that big book in our language) - we would like to release the 11.3 Reference guide as a book (on-demand printing) with installation media - imho box with small box is not the right direction... big book could sell openSUSE (imho this is a very intresting idea) - we agreed that free ship it program (sponsored by Novell Hungary) should continue (last year we posted about 200 DVDs around the country - we are waiting for the 11.3 DVDs to relaunch the ship it program - we will to add openSUSE 11.3 and (sled 11 sp1 with Novell) as official operating system for high-school graduation (10.3 was the last one: http://www.oh.gov.hu/kozoktatas/altalanos-tajekoztatas/opensuse-erettsegi-1… and other distributions not work on that). One school will start to use this from September and we will release case study and we plan to release a screencast about how should solve the high-school graduation exercises on openSUSE - we would like to release very soon a course book for adults that meets ECDL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Computer_Driving_Licence (already work on it with ECDL teachers) - this is not the same as Start-Up guide this will be a real coursebook (an example: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2556976/openSUSE_start_gnome_final.pdf ) - we agreed to use openscope.org project to gather Hungarian localization issues http://bug.openscope.org - this is an umbrella project for Hungarian l10n volunteers (users don't like bugzilla, this is more easier and volunteers will do the rest) - we will looking for the opportunities to create install media Hungarian edition (starts Hungarian, update every 3 months, contains updates and multimedia support) - maybe with Studio - we will looking for the opportunities to step into the retail stores (one of the attendees works in Media Markt) to give DVDs to the computers that sells without any operating systems - we will contact to newspapers (PCWORLD and CHIP) to add DVDs to the newspapers aftershock - one of my friend (fsf.hu activist) wrote a nice article about the event: http://blog.fsf.hu/2010/08/07/opensuse-11-3-osszejovetel/ it was better than I wrote as openSUSE ambassador (more authentic), and he spread this article on buzz, twitter, portals sorry, this report is little bit messy, but let me know if you have questions about it best kalman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Communication
by Okuro Oikawa 06 Aug '10

06 Aug '10

Hello, once again, we recently had a discussion at the Marketing mailinglist about communication via skype for a better communication between the ambassadors. My account is okuro.oikawa. Please tell all the other ambassadors your account! Thanks! -- Best wishes, Okuro Oikawa aka Thomas Hofstätter ### openSUSE Member ### ### openSUSE Ambassador ### ### Member of the openSUSE Marketing Team ### ### Translator of the openSUSE Weekly News ### ### Writer of the openSUSE News (Event-Editor) ### ### http://en.opensuse.org/User:Okuro ### ### http://linuxokuro.wordpress.com/ ### ### Private Website: http://hidden-space.at.tf ### -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Events for Weekly News
by Okuro Oikawa 06 Aug '10

06 Aug '10

Hello all together, while collecting the events for the next openSUSE Weekly News, I once again recognized that the event list for ambassadors is not complete. I would be glad if you all would add your events including a link to the website to the list here: http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_events Moreover, please send me a short email to okuro (at) opensuse (dot) org where you notify me of the event. Thanks for that! -- Best wishes, Okuro Oikawa aka Thomas Hofstätter ### openSUSE Member ### ### openSUSE Ambassador ### ### Member of the openSUSE Marketing Team ### ### Translator of the openSUSE Weekly News ### ### Writer of the openSUSE News (Event-Editor) ### ### http://en.opensuse.org/User:Okuro ### ### http://linuxokuro.wordpress.com/ ### ### Private Website: http://hidden-space.at.tf ### -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-ambassadors] About the use of social networks
by Alex Barrios 05 Aug '10

05 Aug '10

Well... As I say in the first place, I first had to get away all my encounter feelings to that network. I'm of the ones that think that maybe its not as open as should be, with his privacy problems and stuff, but like Bryen say: "So, if you feel that in your region/market, Facebook works well, GO FOR IT!" Thats exactly the reason why I chose FB for this, because here in my country almost everybody its a heavy user of FB, and its the common way to call for meetings, and just get together. So, my intention its boost openSUSE and GoSVe taking advantage of the platform, because the common use here its to enter on that net at least 4 times per week, or at least that was the result of a quick marketing survey that I did. So, I GO FOR IT! Thank you for your thoughts! :D Cheers! :D -- Alex Barrios ----------------------------------------- Descubre! Disfruta! Comparte! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- Embajador openSUSE > http://en.opensuse.org/User:Alexbariv Blog > http://blog.alexbariv.com/ Twitter > http://twitter.com/alexbariv Linux User > 383172 GPG Pkey > 5AB7D408 "Be free, Think Linux, Be smart, Think openSUSE" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Quck survey for Conference attendees
by Bryen M. Yunashko 05 Aug '10

05 Aug '10

As some of us get ready to prepare for upcoming openSUSE Conference in Nuremberg (October 20-23, 2010), I'm looking for a quick headcount of who will be there. 2 questions: 1) If you are a participant in openSUSE's Marketing Team or Ambassador Program, do you intend to be at openSUSE Conference? 2) If yes to 1), we are *thinking* about a Marketing hackfest day, the day before the Conference starts. (Tuesday, October 19). It would be an all-day event. Would you go? Getting some headcounts will help us to decide if there's enough people interested to make it happen. Then we can make arrangements for the resources needed. Thanks, Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Marketing Team lead -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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About the use of social networks
by Alex Barrios 04 Aug '10

04 Aug '10

Hi people. Welly, happily I'm gaining more power and voice here in my country, small but at least the openSUSE word its now in the mouths of a lot of LUG's here, so because that I'm trying to get more in touch with the users and newbies around using the IRC, my blog and Twitter. Besides the encounter feelings about Facebook, I create a group [1] for all the people come together and take advantage of the platform options like forums and that. My question is, its ok to use FB?, or there is another way to accomplish this? The idea: - Put events - Send messages to members from while to while - A forum - Pictures and stuff If there is another option (more open, i think), or best way to get this please let me know. [1] http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=114845975234320 -- Alex Barrios ----------------------------------------- Descubre! Disfruta! Comparte! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- Embajador openSUSE > http://en.opensuse.org/User:Alexbariv Blog > http://blog.alexbariv.com/ Twitter > http://twitter.com/alexbariv Linux User > 383172 GPG Pkey > 5AB7D408 "Be free, Think Linux, Be smart, Think openSUSE" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: Important openSUSE Ambassador information
by Marco ''AlpVonKri'' Flores 02 Aug '10

02 Aug '10

Confirmed my subscription. Best regards. On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)suse.de> wrote: > Dear openSUSE Ambassador, > > we have now created a mailing list just for ambassadors, it's called > opensuse-ambassadors(a)opensuse.org and I'd like to invite you to join > the list (send an email to > opensuse-ambassadors+subscribe(a)opensuse.org). I expect every > ambassador to subscribe to keep updated about the ambassador program. > > The ambassador program is currently pretty informal and we expect the > ambassadors to organize themselves. So, please coordinate with other > ambassadors on the new opensuse-ambassador 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 > > We have recently changed the openSUSE wiki and now user pages need to > be transferred. Could you please check that your user page is > created? Some details on what to do is available in this blog post: > http://news.opensuse.org/2010/07/12/new-wiki-what-now/ > Please update your user page in the new wiki! > > For user pages, please add an email address to it so that others can > reach you. We plan on removing at the end of August those ambassadors > from the ambassador list without a user page - or without an email > contact on their users page. > > We will have a first ambassador IRC meeting on the #opensuse-marketing > IRC channel on freenode on the 3rd of August at 15:00 UTC. You're > invited to join this meeting. Details of the meeting are at > http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_meeting > > We plan to ship some openSUSE PromoDVDs and some info material to you. > Please send me your address (incl. telephone number) so that we can > ship this to you. Gnokii (Sirko Kemter) has already contacted some of > you, so feel free to tell me as well that Gnoki has the address > already. > > Feel free to contact me, or better use the ambassador mailing list for > any questions. > > Note that I plan not to email you any more directly in this kind, > instead let's use the opensuse-ambassadors mailing list for that. > > Have a lot of fun! > Andreas > -- > Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj(a){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 > -- Marco "AlpVonKri" Flores Computer Systems Engineer Ing. Sistemas Computacionales http://www.alpvonkri.co.cc alpvonkri(a)alpvonkri.co.cc openSUSE Member ~ Ambassador ~ Weekly News Miembro ~ Embajador ~ Noticias Semanales http://wiki.opensuse.org/User:Alpvonkri alpvonkri(a)opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help(a)opensuse.org

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