* What have you done already for openSUSE? 1) Packager and upstream developer of the following OBS packages: a) ovaldi - Open Vulnerability Definition Intrepreter b) xmlsec1 - XML Security Library 2) Author of 2,214 source code definition files in the OVAL XML language. I have submitted them to National Institute of Standards and Technology. All accepted by peers and are available for use by general public. Completed. 3) Author of 6,000+ source code definition files in the OVAL XML language. I have queued them for submission to National Institute of Standards and Technology. Currently, re-engineering update process for all files processed internally; then forward to NIST/Mitre. 40%. 4) Currently developing an United States Department of Defense 5015.2-STD Recordkeeping Compliant Documentation Server located in the Amazon EC2 Cloud. This DMS is intended to be the next generation XML repository to generate, store and transmit security-oriented data files pertaining to openSUSE and the entire suite of Novell products. 80% - Backend Finished, 15% - End-User Interface. * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Please tell us what you want to do the next 6 months. 1) Local marketing. I have partnered with the local Starbucks for 3 events in the near future highlighting openSUSE. 2) Local Deployment. Currently utilize openSUSE-based system for deployment of educational resources for Institute for Security and Open Methodology training classes for elementary, middle school and high school students entitiled "Hacker Highschool". These training classes are preemptive introductions for the Local School System to openSUSE. 3) Local/Remote Marketing. Two openSUSE derivatives are planned for deployment and marketing within the next 2 months. * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? Yes, as an elected Official openSUSE Member; i believe it is my responsiblity to do so. I have requested promotional DVDs from openSUSE Promotions already and have began developing high-quality presentation slides highlighting the features and benefits that coincide with my target market. I dabble in the Infosec area of openSUSE. It's what I enjoy. So I figured why not promote the distribution that I enjoy as well. I would like for everyone to enjoy the freedom and relief I receive by utilizing the wonderful openSUSE Linux distribution. * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? The terminal or the getsysinfo() scripts. * Why do you love to do this? I like to have control of my system. openSUSE allows me to do just that---and it looks good doing so. * How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of experience? I began studying Linux while earning my Microsoft Networking Engineering certificate 10 years ago. I ditched Microsoft Windows; and have been using Linux ever since. Bought Boxed Packages of the following releases: 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3. I still have the packages and proudly keep them well beyond their end-of-lifecycle! ;) I then took a hiatus and dabbled with ubuntu for awhile. Ubuntu 9.10, 10.04 LTS. Then returned to openSUSE right before release of 11.2. Cheers. Thomas R. Jones -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org