Recently, I came up with 2 ideas to attract and motivate contributers and activate our community. Although they are still rough drafts, I'd like to share them with list mates and hear your opinions. * openSUSE Awards This is literally aimed at recognizing significant contributions of community mates. - Every team will select and endorse candidates for 'Most Valuable Contributer (MVC) of the year' and 'Rookie of the year' from its members and introduce how and what they contribute the team. - If there is a local openSUSE community which has its own communication channel in your country and there are several Ambassadors, that community can select and endorse a candidate for 'Most Valuable Ambassador (MVA) of the year' and introduce how and what (s)he contribute your local community. - Everyone in our community can vote for those candidates. - Candidates who received the highest number of votes will be given awards as 'MVC of the year', 'Rookie of the year' and 'MVA of the year' - it would be great if they can get testimonials or commemorative gifts. ;-) * openSUSE Certification Program This program is aimed at certifying persons who have a fair amount of knowledge on openSUSE Project, Community and distribution. Note, it is not aimed at certificating technical skills on openSUSE or Linux. People who want to be certificated should take an exam such as Novell Certified Linux Engineer or LPIC. - Person who want to become an 'openSUSE Master' can take an exam. # Questions in the exam which I have in my mind are as follows: Q. Choose the correct mention on openSUSE board. a. The openSUSE board consists of one chairman who is appointed by Novell and 4 Non-Novell-Employee members who are elected by the community. b. The openSUSE board consists of one chairman who is appointed by Novell, 2 Novell-Employee members and 3 Non-Novell- Employee members. Board members except chairman are elected by the community. c. All the members of the openSUSE board are appointed by Novell. Q. What is the name of the mascot of openSUSE? a. Geego b. Susie c. Geeko Q. What is the default CUI tool for package management in openSUSE? a. yum b. zypper c. apt Q. What is the official domain for openSUSE? a. opensuse.com b. opensuse.net c. opensuse.org - Once (s)he get a passing score, (s)he will be certified as an 'openSUSE Master' and allowed to use 'openSUSE Master Emblem (I'm sure gnokii will design a good emblem for that. ;-))' on his(her) web site or name cards. As you may remember, all the Ambassador should have a fair amount of knowledge on openSUSE, but ATM there's no way to confirm that. I think this program can solve the problem. When someone want to become an Ambassador, (s)he has to take and get through the exam first. Note, this program is not only for Ambassadors but also for users who just want to be certificated as an 'openSUSE Master'. We don't need to set the difficulty level of the certification high - the main purpose of this program is to provide good opportunities to learn about openSUSE. I'm waiting for your comments. ;-) Best, -- _/_/ Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/ _/_/ Marketing/Weekly News/openFATE Screening Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: helios_reds_at_gmx.net / irc: HeliosReds _/_/ _/_/ http://blog.zaq.ne.jp/opensuse/ _/_/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org