Team, I'd like you to welcome Bruno Friedmann as our first Ambassador from Switzerland! I'm appending his interview so that you get to know him a little bit better, Andreas ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
I have a couple of questions for you:
I think my opensuse member page at http://en.opensuse.org/User:Bruno_friedmann already answer a bit thoses questions already
* What have you done already for openSUSE? Last 2 weeks spending lot of time on irc ( tigerfoot ) to help users. And build the lizard page about the ATI RPM http://lizards.opensuse.org/2010/07/15/ati-hd57xxx-flgrx-drivers-under-11-3/ and also maintaining those rpm ( today upgrade to 10.7 and rewrite of the page ) Also it's should be easy to find me in bugzilla (bruno_friedmann)
* What are your plans for promoting openSUSE? Continuing to maintain at any cost the computers based on opensuse at my customers. (Ubuntu pressure was hard to fight those two last years) but we have a so nice distribution for server. ( I was migrating an old 10.3 to 11.3 at one of my customer this week-end) Build necessary binary rpm when needed by users. Be honest, be able to say when,what,how we failed, and proud when we success.
* Are you ready to start promoting openSUSE? Ready to Take a more important (visible) part in that. That's why when gnokii ask for Zurich I said yes.
* What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE? My first reaction about that question, was ok ask it to Geeko [21:26] <tigerfoot> !8ball what are you best kept secret ? [21:26] <SUSEhelp> tigerfoot: As I see it, yes. [21:27] <tigerfoot> !8ball don't play with me, it's a serious question coming from aj [21:27] <SUSEhelp> tigerfoot: Concentrate and ask again. [21:27] <tigerfoot> ok I will quote it ... [21:28] <tigerfoot> !8ball What do you think is the best kept secret of openSUSE ? [21:28] <SUSEhelp> tigerfoot: Don't count on it.
but it seems not very cooperative on it. So I think people doesn't know how cool is openSUSE acting as a server. They tend to think it's a desktop distribution. True, but also a nice one as server. And I will fight to keep it at this level, even if we can go a bit futher.
* Why do you love to do this? One of the best thing in opensource, is how everybody take a place, act & react. I've seen too much pretty thing happening day after day. 11.3 named (bind9) not starting due to wrong mount rebind of /proc in the chroot I've take 10 minutes, analyze why ntp start, get the line of it put them on named work nice. Open the bugzilla, submit request and patch. Now it will be published on next update .... and lot's like this.
* How did you start with with Linux/openSUSE? Well after playing 10 years as an MCSE under NT3 & 4, I was already playing with opensource software on windows (apache, mysql, php, perl) Time has come to use full opensource. Also at those time I've get an RS6000 PowerPC IBM on which I installed the SuSE 7.3. After fights, cry, education, brain format : we are using full opensource based product in my society from 2003.
What is your level of experience? Excellent administrator Love to get things done. Free software lover ( also heard the philosophy behind it ) No so good marketing guy (If i was i would already be full of money :-) Educate myself to start explaining things to newbee irc is an excellent way of doing it.
The ambassador program is currently pretty informal and we expect the ambassadors to organize themselves. So, please coordinate with other ambassadors on the opensuse-marketing mailing list:
* share with them what you like to do
* share what you did, e.g. what kind of event did you organize, how many people joined One thing I wouldn't do here ( too small place ) but looking around to participate with the help of others in open-source events (Most of them are in german part of switzerland... bad for a french native guy )
* share what you learned, explain what was great at your event, what you want to improve
My first experience in frOSCamp as exhibitor should help me to detect what we need to improve
* create material that is usefull for you and other ambassadors as well oh, how could you know that I want to propose a session for OSC. But I don't success to find the best interesting area for audience. I've seen last year very nice conf but we are only 5 guys ( those of accessibility )
Also, as an ambassador, you're the expert on your country/region, so please share on the opensuse-marketing mailing list a bit about the openSUSE and the FOSS community in your country/region, e.g. what are their needs. No you don't want to know what they want around here, they have been intoxicated by U propaganda. Me, I'm just acting, put opensuse server on customer site, maintaining them in good shape ( sometimes too much as some customer run a 10.2 serveur in production :-)
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