2012/6/17 Carlos Ribeiro :

Hello Geraldo,

In respect of all members of this list, I will answer to you in english, because as well said by our friend Luiz Machado, the official and welcome language in this mail list is english, so as part of a collaboration team, we need to follow some rules to try to make our communication better.

For portugues language we have our portuguese mail list, also some others that you may wish to participate, take a look at our Mailing lists portal [1].

Also we have other ways of communications that you may be interested in your early days of interaction in openSUSE Project [2].

Well, about your request for be part of openSUSE Ambassadors Team

Pretty nice that you already have received and answered the questionnaire by mail from ambassadors-welcome team, now you need to have a little patience and wait the final feedback and approve from ambassador-welcome team. In general lines they will decide if  right now is the best time to bring you to the ambassadors team or if you need more involvement and contributions to the project, also if you need to spend a little bit more time working closer with the actual ambassadors, specially the ones that are near to you, helping them with all activities that they are already involved, getting experience and know-how to be ambassadors and help and guide new volunteers and contributors, in the future, just like I'm trying to do with you right now. As the days are coming and you get more involvement with the entirely project [3] overview of the Project [4], the strategy of the project [5], and so you will start to understand the main openSUSE Concepts [6], so you will ready to became part of the Ambassadors team [7]

I like to remember you that this such approve does not have nothing related with indications or relationships, but instead of that, the approve process is completely based on contributions and activities that the requested person has already made for the openSUSE Project, so I always say that the ambassadors team are built and consolidated on meritocracy.

Also a good point is that to be an openSUSE contributor, does not need to have titles like be ambassadors, boosters [8], or any other title inside and around openSUSE universe.  We can help and contribute in several ways and levels of responsibility, take a look at how to collaborate [9]

I like to assure you that be openSUSE Ambassador is a big resposability, going even further than do presentations and participate in events, we also care a lot about how to guide and introduce new users, contributors, enthusiasts  into the project, to make sure that the new "geekos" are having fun, are in fact contributing, and reach their expectations being part of the project. And to make us able to do all of this of course we need to me familiar and have some experience with the project, channels, teams, and project limitations, so sometimes take time to be approved as an Ambassador

Inside the project we have several portals and teams that I believe is a great way to start to understand the project and how it works, as example, we have translations, developers, artwork, marketing, testers, boosters, ambassadors, ... [10]

For the ending, I like to say that there is no rules that make anyone in this world be impossible to be part or integrate any of the openSUSE Project Teams. So we are here to guide and help you to achieve your objectives and wishes with openSUSE Project.

And please, any doubts that could remain in your mind, don't waste your time, contact one of us, we wil be more than happy to help you to have fun and contribute with the project.

Tenha um bom domingo Atenciosamente CarlosRibeiro

[1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_lists [2] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Communication_channels [3] http://pt.opensuse.org/Portal:Projeto [4] http://pt.opensuse.org/Project_overview [5] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Strategy [6] http://pt.opensuse.org/Concepts [7] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors_list [8] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Boosters_team [9] http://pt.opensuse.org/Como_Participar [10] http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Teams

Em 16 de junho de 2012 09:36, Luiz Augusto Machado escreveu:

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Olá Geraldo,

Eu acho que seria melhor enviar um e-mail diretamente ao Kostas se tiver alguma dúvida com relação ao prazo e não se esqueça que essa lista é para comunicação em Inglês. Se tiver algum assunto que você queira tratar em português use a lista para falantes da língua Portuguesa: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-pt/

2012/6/15 Geraldo Barros :

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Olá Comunidade,

Por meio deste venho solicitar ao responsável pela inserção de embaixadores, que já enviei ao Kostas e para o e-mail ambassador-welcome@opensuse.org as questões que foram me perguntadas, porém ainda eu não fui colocado na lista de embaixadores.

Atenciosamente,

Geraldo Barros E-mail: geraldoweb@gmail.com Contato: +55 (19) 9508-7962

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Hey Geraldo Since I kindly asked you to be a bit patient 2 days ago I went up to the Greek mountains were we had a lot of fires. I spend 24 hours there working fighting fires and the rest I spent it on sleeping. I am telling you that in order to understand that ambassador welcome team in not my work but I do this entiely volunteer. Now I find your attitude insulting to me and to other ambassadors and far from what an openSUSE ambassador should be like, also being so impatient makes me suspicious for the reasons you want to be an ambassador. Me and Richard are not here to just approve and give guidance to ambassadors but also to guard the ambassador program so that nobody will take advantage of it the wrong way. Also I received concerns about you from other people within the Brazilian community, people I deeply respect and have worked a lot for the Brazilian openSUSE community. Now in order to find the best possible solution for the openSUSE Project and the local Brazilian community that so far have offered the best to the project I ask you 3 things. Firstly is to be patient until we come up with a decision, second to be more polite with people since this is mandatory in order to work with other people and go along with the rest of the wonderful community you guys have there in Brazil and third is to stop using the ambassador title since you are not yet an ambassador. Of course you should feel free and continue any actions you are doing for the openSUSE community. Of course it is needless to say that I have nothing personal with you since I don’t know you at all and as everybody knows I am really happy welcoming and guiding new ambassadors. Have fun Kostas Koudaras -- --- \m/ --- http://opensuse.gr      http://os-el.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr   http://www.kde.gr http://warlordfff.tk --- \m/ --- me I am not I --- \m/ --- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+owner@opensuse.org