Hi Everybody I thought I had replied to this once but maybe i missed something off so I will do so again :) What have I done already for openSUSE? Oh my goodness what a question :) Well I have been supporting openSUSE in IRC since 2005, every christmas I give the gift of Linux - specifically openSUSE to friends and family. I also help out in Mailing Lists and on the forum. I run training courses for students at the University of Bolton showing them how everything that the University doesn't show them :) KDE, Gnome, LXDE. You see the university believe Linux like Unix should be consigned to the Server stack and never be allowed on Desktop Computers. Everyday I show them this is wrong. I am one man fighting a war against non believers. What are your plans to promote opensuse? Recently I started promoting openSUSE through Retail boxes trying the approach of getting openSUSE out onto the high street. I attend local computer markets each weekend: Sheffield, Leeds, Blackpool, Wigan, St Helens. Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? Have been doing it for 5 years What do I think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? openSUSE is the best kept secret of openSUSE - it has so many features and options but nobody has heard of it - and those that have even heard of Linux are all Ubuntu. We need to promote the distribution - all the focus seems to be on this "Project" or Build Service". Why do I love to do this? Several reasons, I love to help people I am kind and caring and this is something I am good at. Everyday people have problems with Windows, if they switch to openSUSE most of their problems would just vanish. How did I start with Linux? I was introduced to it through a friend back in the '90's (Debian) but it was before package management and auto resolution of dependencies and you had to compile everything from scratch and the desktop environments were just not what they are today. I returned to Linux through openSUSE iin 2005. Through retail, i was looking for accounts software in PC World, I picked up a copy SuSE Linux Professional. I looked at the desktop environment, I looked at the cost and the list of software that was included and I thought i would give it a try. I have never looked back 6 years later and still going strong. My level is higher than that of most university lecturers. They may be a wizz with bash - but put them infront of kde and they wouldn't have a clue. It annoys me that the university don't even give us a small unix network with desktop computers for us to demonstrate. All they give us is simply "ssh from windows into linux command line", students never get the true linux experience and are put off before they even start. Stuart On Thursday 10 Feb 2011 01:53:13 Manu Gupta wrote:
Hi Stuart I am Manu and along with Bhaskar and Carlos we are the Ambassador Welcome team we are glad that you like to join openSUSE as an ambassador to promote openSUSE.
We have a couple of questions for you: * What have you done already for openSUSE? * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Please tell us what you want to do the next 6 months. * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? * Why do you love to do this? * How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of experience?
The ambassador program is currently pretty informal and we expect the ambassadors to organize themselves. So, please coordinate with other ambassadors on the opensuse-marketing 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
Also, as an ambassador, you're the expert on your country/region, so please share on the opensuse-marketing mailing list a bit about the openSUSE and the FOSS community in your country/region, e.g. what are their needs.
We'd like to send your answers to the opensuse-ambassadors list and thus introduce you as our ambassador and people get to know you more. Please keep this in mind when answering and if you don't agree, please tell us!
For adding you to the ambassador list at http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_list, please tell me: your country, region/city and your user page in the wiki.
For details of creating a user page, see: http://news.opensuse.org/2010/07/12/new-wiki-what-now/
We know that openSUSE is very special to you and you might be tempted to give it a capital "O" but that's wrong, so please remember openSUSE is always spelled "openSUSE".
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 00:12 +0000, Stuart Tanner wrote:
Could you add me to the list please? IRC Nick SatManUK have been supporting openSUSE now into my 6th year and now also marketing openSUSE through retail channels.
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