Re: [opensuse-marketing] SCALE and NELF

On Tuesday 04 October 2011 11:50:42 Kostas Koudaras wrote:

2011/10/3 Bryen M. Yunashko :

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On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 14:43 -0400, Chuck Payne wrote:

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Guys,

I need to know what we will be doing for both. I heard that some people might have already started planning stuff for SCALE. Since they reached out to me, I like to go again, but I before I step into anything I like to know what has been talked about.

Chuck,

There is no formal organizing going on at the moment for SCaLE. The only things were that Manu was going to send out a notice to others a month ago to send in their papers, and at the last meeting on Thursday, SCaLE was included in a list mentioning upcoming events we want to attend.

One thing I want to point out. We spent a boatload of money going to SCaLE last year, and one of the reasons for that was to shore up support for openSUSE in Southern California. When Jos and I initially planned the SCaLE budget, we viewed it as an investment and one that hopefully meant we would not have to continue shipping people to SCaLE and can rely on local ground support. I'm glad to know now that we have 4 people in the region who can support SCaLE and give openSUSE awesome recognition once again. This is an improvement over the past several years when we continually shipped people to SCaLE.

I would strongly encourage reaching out to these people, Tony Su already indicated he would go there, and asking them to organize the booth. This would keep our expenses to a minimum (just put them up in a hotel since they all live at least 90 minutes drive away) and our investment would effectively have paid for itself.

However, anyone and everyone is free to go as well. But in terms of funding, if anyone requires it, will need to be approved through the Ambassador Travel Sponsorship program. Granted this particular program needs to be ironed out a bit, but I guarantee you it will within the next few weeks.

Well the terms of funding are a bit stuck in who can get this funding and in what terms, but my opinion is that Chuck and Tony (I don't know who the other guys are) fill the requirments since they have proven to the community and the ambassador program that they are hard working men. So my proposal is, and that is only if Manu has no problem with that, to get those guys the funding they need, so that this reason won't delay their effords, so on my side they should make a budget and send it to Jos. Because the Funding program in not over yet that does not mean in any way that people who want to do something can't apply for it.

Yup. The formal Ambassador Travel Sponsorship program called for a PLAN to be delivered before a quarter. As this isn't likely to happen in time etc etc, we keep doing it 'the old way', eg via me, until we've got this on the rails :D