On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 14:46 +0200, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Hey,
taking this to our list.
On 16.05.2011 11:48, Klaas Freitag wrote:
I think it took some time, but now we are really rocking.
Which is the time we should detach from the rocket. We are boosters and not the main engine! :) If I look at how the project nowadays runs events I see a huge influence of the Boosters. Organization, materials, DVDs, both equipment and setup, the atmosphere and the way we generally roll on events are things we have brought up to speed. We can be very proud about that.
But I also see that the usual suspect events don't hold much for us Boosters anymore. Yes it is important that the openSUSE Project is at LinuxTag, FROSCOM, SCALE or whatever but it's less and less important for us Boosters. So lets see how we take events to the next level and you know me, I already have an Idea how :)
From now on I would like us to concentrate on events that meet both of the following two conditions:
1. The main audience is not the FOSS community. 2. The topic is something you are not an expert in.
I don't want us to do the same, always. There are so many groups of people out there that are connected to technology and engineering that are FOSS-minded to some degree. I want Boosters to go to their events and connect with them. It's time we try to tap into other groups than the FOSS community for contributors.
The second thing is about that the Boosters get more out of the bucks we put into the events. From now on I want you to come home from an event with at least one new idea that you are excited about. Ideally with more ideas then you can act on. The world moves fast and there is tons of stuff where openSUSE still communicates, behaves, designs, develops and deploys like RMS and friends did in the 70s. It's time for us to go out and bring something of the new things back into openSUSE.
This doesn't mean that we shouldn't do things on those events for openSUSE. I still expect you to give talks, distribute materials, educate people and network if you have the chance. I just would like us to do that with new people on new topics.
What do you think? Do you maybe already have an event in mind for yourself or someone else?
Henne
-- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson
I find some of the tone of this thread rather disturbing. I do commend the Booster team for all their hard work promoting openSUSE at events, but there is a rather serious disconnect here. 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) and there is no collaboration with either teams to further enhance our activities worldwide. I'm seeing a rather long list of activities here that I have never even heard of happening. 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. How can we fix this problem? It's not much o a boost if everyone is working in their own separate corners here. Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help@opensuse.org