Hi All Please welcome Paulo, he is from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil and give him a warm welcome to the openSUSE Ambassadors Team :) For people that wishes to have a little bit more information about him, please see his answers bellow. Paulo welcome aboard to this amazing team! As you may seeing during you steps to became an openSUSE Ambassador, we have some materials and resources that may help you during your early days within the ambassadors program, so I would like to share a quickly review of the most important links. Ambassadors Portal http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Ambassadors Ambassadors meeting http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_meeting Ambassadors events http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_events openSUSE:Presentations http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Presentations openSUSE:Product demo http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Product_demo openSUSE:Marketing materials http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_materials Marketing Portal http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Marketing Paulo, anything you need, please fell free to find one of us on the openSUSE-ambassadors mailing list, or in #opensuse-marketing on Freenode. Best "geeko" regards CarlosRibeiro 2011/5/13 Paulo Motta <prmottajr@gmail.com>
Hello Carlos,
I will copy the questions up here to answer them :)
* What have you done already for openSUSE?
I have recommended it for many people and recently I have started promoting it as a platform for Java and Compilers disciplines that I teach at the University. I have also contributed with a guide to make bluetooth work on OpenSuse 11.1 and have posted many articles on my website (www.paulomotta.pro.br) about OpenSuse and Linux.
* What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Please tell us what you want to do the next 6 months.
I have made a "virtual" install fest via the University's forum but I intend to promote a presential install fest. I will try to get some sponsorship from the University for that.
* Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE?
I am just on the verge of completing my PhD so, for this month I am a little off-line, but besides that, I am ready
* What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE?
OpenSuse is the most distro that was able to put together easy-of-use and stability, I really like the whole system. (Although some months ago I have complained a lot about the repositories that were offline)
* Why do you love to do this?
Because I like to see open systems running and since I teach software development I try to promote the idea that you need to either use open source software and contribute with it or you should buy some licensed software but do not use pirate copies!
* How did you start with Linux/openSUSE? What is your level of experience?
My first experience was back in 1997 when I first compiled the kernel of a Slackware system, after that I have tried some stuff but at that time didn't move exclusively. I still used it in a 50/50 proportion with Windows most during the 2002-2005 period when I was completing my Master, and then in 2006 I began moving exclusively to OpenSuse which happened in 2007. I consider myself an experienced user although I prefer the GUI interface over the text.
Best regards Paulo
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Carlos Ribeiro <carlosalberto.net@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Paulo,
My name is Carlos and like you I work to help to spread openSUSE in Brazil. Working together with Manu and Kostas 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?
Best "paulista" regards We hope to see you soon.
CarlosRibeiro
2011/5/13 Paulo Motta <prmottajr@gmail.com>
Greetings from Rio de Janeiro Brazil!
I have configured all the steps listed on the Ambassadors page and I am willing to be part of the team.
I've been using OpenSuSE regularly as main OS since 2007 and after helping promoting informally I would like to become official :)
Cheers -- Paulo Motta -- "Qualquer tecnologia suficientemente avançada é indistinguível da mágica" - Arthur C. Clarke
-- Paulo Motta -- "Qualquer tecnologia suficientemente avançada é indistinguível da mágica" - Arthur C. Clarke
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