Am Mittwoch 25 Mai 2011, 16:18:35 schrieb Bryen M. Yunashko: Hi Bryen,
I find some of the tone of this thread rather disturbing.
Which exactly?
The marketing and ambassador teams have been working hard to maintain presence and give talks at events globally as well, and yet. Yet, as one marketing team member very recently said to me, the separation o activities by your team is "alarming" (that's the exact word he used)
??? Please elaborate with a name and context. Otherwise I can neither understand nor take that comment for serious, sorry.
and there is no collaboration with either teams to further enhance our activities worldwide. The boosters are a team with an own identity, idea and roadmap. As most teams in openSUSE. We make things happen and maybe we sometimes could be more active to let more teams join. Not sure if other teams do that, but you're right, it would be better if all did. On the other hand I do not see that we try to lock somebody out. On the last three events I took part boosters _and_ other community members where on the booth and all other activities with big fun and good outcome.
I'm seeing a rather long list of activities here that I have never even heard of happening. http://news.opensuse.org/2011/05/03/linuxtag11/
Events that we could have helped you promote or shared ideas on how to make it better. Events that both sides could have learned and benefitted from so that we can create an even larger army of openSUSE evangelists around the world. Armies IMO can not do good ;-) Still for me the best way to create an openSUSE evangelist is to grab some stuff and GO to the event. We do that whenever we can, spending a high amount of personal time.
Please note that the boosters is not an event team on the first hand, we neither have the financial nor people resources for that. Dancing all stages is something in the job description of the community manager, so there is more need to sync with him. We more or less do that on top, but we want to do that with the biggest outcome for the project. That is what Hennes mail was heading to. Its not that he says we never will join an event any more.
How can we fix this problem? It's not much o a boost if everyone is working in their own separate corners here. Can you elaborate which specific problem you mean, I am still not sure if I understand correctly what the problem is.
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