2011/3/15 Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet@gmail.com>:
Hey marketing team,
Based on our IRC discussion yesterday a more extensive proposal, connected to the mail I just send to the boosters with you in CC:
Our ambassadors are often local (many don't even speak English, or barely); so what we do with/for them has to be translatable, easy to read or in their hands. They often spend not a huge amount of time on openSUSE; so what we do for/with them should not take much time. And the fact they are ambassador gives them some credibility; so we should make that clear.
Currently, we have an ambassador mailinglist. Some ambassadors are on there; many are not (like most of the active people in Brazil or Greece - despite those countries being among the most active for us, as far as we know). They usually have a local mailinglist (not on openSUSE infrastructure) which they use for planning and discussing.
Jos here in Greece we use the opensuse-el for ambassador things(which is in the openSUSE infrastructure) , in rare cases that we need to talk only the ambassadors(a rare thing and happened only once or twise so far) we just CC all the ambassadors in a simple mail. Generally I am not against on doing local ambassador lists but so far at least here in Greece we find no reason to add another ML.
First, I would like to propose to bring such mailinglists to openSUSE infrastructure. That means - let ambassadors ask for a language/region specific mailinglist. Not too many rules, if they feel they need one for something, give it. But there should be one limitation: at least one or two active people on that list should be on the international ambassador mailinglist; and we need a one-way, moderated mailinglist to reach ALL ambassador lists at once for things that concern everybody.
+ 1 I just need to know how a moderated ML works
Second, let them create a localized ambassador team page on the wiki (or on connect.opensuse.org, dunno what makes most sense). Actually, it'd be great if they had an English page which is translated - so each team (the Greek team, Brazil team etc) has a page on the wiki; and it is translated in their language(s). They can have links there to the mailinglist and the forum place they hang out, as well as their IRC channel(s).
That is something we(the Greek ambassadors) never thought and I find that interesting and we will make a discussion about it the following days
This will allow countries/regions to build their own team. Yet, due to the requirement of having 1-2 ppl on the international list, we are connected.
Now we need to make sure there is communication as much as possible. The ambassadors should get the word out on what they do - that's what the ambassador report stuff is for, which I mailed to the Boosters team. I hope we can make that happen.
Cheers, Jos
I think that the base of your proposal is to support and deploy(not sure if is the correct word) local communities and I am 100% with you on that since I truly believe that strong local communities can really give the global community the strength to grow even more and make a better stand to the global FOSS community. What we must all be careful though is while planning and discussing how to do that,to try not to make things too complicated for the people. I would be very interested to hear Nelsons opinion about all that since he is starting also a local community and he probably examines all those carefully too. That's it for now Kostas Koudaras -- http://opensuse.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr http://own.opensuse.gr http://warlordfff.tk me I am not me ------- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help@opensuse.org