On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Andreas Jaeger<aj@suse.de> wrote:
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
Although I'm not an Ambassador yet, I'm interested in this program from the beginning and hope it will be of help both in promoting openSUSE and motivating contributors all over the world (why I haven't become an Ambassador is another story for another day). I know IRC meeting sometimes is an effective and efficient way for discussing and brainstorming and it might be worthwhile to share the time with other members, but it is not always the best way to collaborate. * It is very difficult to find the convenient time for everyone. When we have a project meeting, for example, most of the *important* persons live in Europe or America and they are employees of Novell, so that they can join the meeting during the daytime on weekdays. But Ambassadors live in different timezones and I suppose most of them are volunteers and it would be difficult to join the meeting during the daytime on weekdays due to their own jobs or schools. * How much a person can commit the IRC meeting depends on his/her English skill. Discussions on IRC meeting go along in real time, that is, those wishing to commit the meeting must have certain English skill. There is a very high bar for those who are not good at English - like me ;-) - to take part in discussions. I don't mean to deny having Ambassador IRC meeting itself. But time and language are always the problems when we really want to bring up a global community. So, I'd propose to have bi-weekly regular *global* meetings and separate meetings for regions or languages as appropriate. * Each region and/or language will have its facilitator(s), who are good at English. * The facilitators are going to translate the meeting agenda and what we need to discuss to their languages and organize region/language specific meetings (not limited to IRC meeting - mailing lists or other channels would be OK) if needed. * Once the region/language specific meetings would be held, the facilitators will feed back the result of those meetings to *global* meeting. You may think this is too much bother, but I think this will be helpful in solving time and language problems. Best, -- _/_/ Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/ _/_/ Marketing/Weekly News/openFATE Screening Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: helios_reds_at_gmx.net / irc: HeliosReds _/_/ _/_/ http://blog.zaq.ne.jp/opensuse/ _/_/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org