WOW my gosh! My prayers are being heard, and isn't it really cool! We are growing in numbers, quality and efficiency - I believe ;-) This new one Ambassador sounds like a kind of a good tool for our Brazilian Ambassadors engine in my ears, and of course for the entirely Ambassadors Team too :D. (as everyone can see inside his lines - I recommend it). Alexandre, or should I say Rasta? Welcome to this outstanding team, we believe that working together in a organized and collaborative way we can help each other to build openSUSE as showed bellow: * Make openSUSE Linux distribution the most widely used open source platform. * Provide an atmosphere for open source collaboration that makes openSUSE the world's best Linux distribution for new Linux users and experienced too. * Dramatically simplify and open the development process and packaging in order to make openSUSE the platform of choice for experienced users and programmers. To help us to better achieve our mission, we have a bunch of tools already waiting for us to use it. * Planet openSUSE - http://planet.opensuse.org/global/ or portguese version http://planet.opensuse.org/pt/ * openSUSE Map - http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Map * Presentations - http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Presentations or Portuguese version http://pt.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Presentations * openSUSE Tube - http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Tube * suse Art - http://suse-art.org/ Also we are waiting for you in #openSUSE-marketing to send you our warm welcome message and share with you everything you may needs to know about your first-steps inside and around openSUSE ecosystem as a new Ambassador. http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors By the way, we have a planned meeting next 03-August-2010, we will be so proud if you got the chance to join us at #openSUSE-marketing channel at 15:00 UTC http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_meeting As a support resources we have: * Support Portal - http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Support * openSUSE Video Channel - http://opensuse.blip.tv/ * openSUSE Forums - http://forums.opensuse.org/ * openSUSE Mailing Lists - http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_lists * openSUSE IRC channels - http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:IRC_list I hope this message could be useful for you in your "zero" steps ;-), anyway your need something else, send us a message as soon as you are able to do Now that you have a little idea about what our community implies for us, can you share what do you fell more comfortable to do as a new openSUSE Ambassador? As my last words, Thank you so much Alexandre for join us and help to change the world for a better place for everyone, technical and non-technical, students and teachers, engineers and doctors, just using our openSUSE as our main tool and NEVER forgetting to ... Have a lot fun! Welcome again CarlosRibeiro
Em 29/07/2010 às 05:08 PM, na mensagem <AANLkTinhNbDJhtuJ=iiifJubP3N_x8vzUX3W9jRTYZ-k@mail.gmail.com>, Kayo Hamid <kayohf@gmail.com> gravou: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj@novell.com> wrote: I'd like to give a warm welcome to Alexandre as Brasilian Ambassador!
Alexandre, welcome! Please join us to talk about our work here in Brazil.
#opensuse-pt @ Freenode http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-pt
Andreas Jaeger <aj@novell.com> 29 Julho, 2010 >>> I'd like to give a warm welcome to Alexandre as Brasilian Ambassador
I'm appending as introduction his interview, Andreas * What have you done already for openSUSE? In my state (Bahia/Brazil) i have a big case of implantation Opensuse. In 2 years are installed 1400 desktops. These desktops are migrated from Windows (in varios versions like 95, 98 and XP). In sequence, I instruct many employees how to use this distribution in many cities of this state, including Salvador, Jequié, Alagoinhas and Vitória da Conquista. * What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Distribution of medias, presentation in Foruns and other events and participation in FLISOL (Festival Latinoamericano de Instalação de Software Livre - Latinamerica festival of Free Software Installation). In this events, installations are realized in desktops from people with interest in use of linux. * Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE Yes, a have participate from other events, but not in legal representation. I observe that Opensuse is a great distribution, with advantages and disadvantages in comparison with other distributions, like ubuntu and fedora, but, in general, Opensuse have very many features. However, I expect migrate windows users to linux, because I believe that is more easy convert other linux users to Opensuse only showing advantages from our desktop. * What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? The powerfull and stability. Desktops must be easy and have more funcionalities without forget the stability, confiability and speed. Opensuse is only linux desktop that have all of this features. * Why do you love to do this I believe in free software and in a near future proprietary software will be extinct. I want make part from this history. * How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of experienc. I am a Infrastrutucre Support Analist. I have 10 years from experience with Linux like a System Administrator * 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. All right. No problem * 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. My region have some people working with FOSS, and like I said, Opensuse is the best linux distribution, however, many other peoples dont know. I want contribute to disseminate this distribution. The more needs is materials to publish Opensuse distribution and support to make events. A wiki with documentation in my main language (pt-br) is very important too -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org