Am 20.05.2011 20:30, schrieb jdd:
* after one year of ambassador, we could offer for the said 10 most active ones (may be one or two in each continent) a free LPI exam.
How would you define "most active"? Yeah, you can say: "Okay. X participated in 94 events this year, he´d done a lot for openSUSE as an ambassador." But at the same point, X just talked to 388 people on this 94 events. Whereas Y participated in only 2 events but talked to more people, let us say, 2441. Which one do you want to give a free LPI exam? Of course, you could say, X, because his work is bigger (traveling, organisation so on....) But at the same point, Y spread the word out better, because he simply get more people on his side by talking to a bigger crowd of new and old users. From my point of view, the question isn´t "Which ambassador deserve such a exam the most?" It´s just "For which ambassador we should pay for such an exam to being secure, that we (as SUSE and openSUSE) will get back something?" And what´s with the ambassador who doesn´t go to conferences or to an user group because he hates to talking face to face to people, but spreads the word out every time he gets the chance too on the internet? By thinking about this, you have to face several issues. But except from my points, I really agree with your idea, because it´s one of the easiest and fairest methodes to forgive such things Kim -- Kim-Dennis Leyendecker openSUSE Ambassador / openSUSE Wiki Team DE HAVE A LOT OF FUN! http://www.opensuse.org | http://www.suse.de Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD, an app you want to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE Studio a try. www.susestudio.com. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org