On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Strainu wrote:

Hi,

At the openSUSE Conference, Zonker said that he wishes for the community to help him decide what events will be financed from the Marketing budget in 2010.

I wanted to know if you guys have decided when and how will we be able to submit proposals for this selection process?

Thanks,   Andrei --

Hi! What events will be financed, does that mean covering air/bus/etc tickets, disks, t-shirts, all of them?...not easy to answer but I believe the Marketing Budget could be primarley divided into regions. So as for South America, there are a few events such as FLISOL, FISL, or the Gnome LA Tour that I am pretty interested. And of course I am interested in attending OSC 2010 ;), just wishing air tickets are not that expensive next year. Bests, -- Ricardo Varas Santana openSUSE Member http://ricardovs.wordpress.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Ricardo Varas Santana wrote:

Hi!

What events will be financed, does that mean covering air/bus/etc tickets, disks, t-shirts, all of them?...not easy to answer but I believe the Marketing Budget could be primarley divided into regions. So as for South America, there are a few events such as FLISOL, FISL, or the Gnome LA Tour that I am pretty interested. And of course I am interested in attending OSC 2010 ;), just wishing air tickets are not that expensive next year.

I've asked that at the conf and from what I understood, transport costs for the speakers will come from the transport budget of each Novell employee. I have no idea if transport costs for external speakers will be covered from this budget. I also think that we should try to cover as many regions/countries of the world as we can. Andrei -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org

On 10/02/2009 12:10 PM, Strainu wrote:

I wanted to know if you guys have decided when and how will we be able to submit proposals for this selection process?

When, probably another week. How, not decided yet. I should know by next week how much money we'll actually have to allocate strictly to the ambassadors program. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier openSUSE Community Manager http://zonker.opensuse.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org

Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:

To quote Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Good news everybody!

Definitely! Thanks an awful lot for your effort.

My budget is now locked and I have insight into what we're allocated for ambassadors next year. So, we need to come up with a proposal for how to use that money.

Some notes:

* We don't have a foundation, so this money will still be handled by Novell (me) for the time being. So, basically I'm going to be the CFO for the ambassadors until further notice. (That's "Chief Financial Officer")

* This isn't entirely open ended. What I'm looking for is a steering committee of the most active ambassadors to work together on a plan and be accountable for the budget.

I have to apologize because the attempt at improving Ambassadors program is held up. So, it might be the time to make a fresh start now. If I understand correctly, the tasks for the members of the 'steering committee' are differ from the ones for other normal Ambassadors and need to be clearly specified. In addition, since the members of the 'steering committee' will deal in the money-involved issues, they have to be much more responsible than other Ambassadors. If the tasks and responsibilities are not clear, who can be determined to be a part of the 'steering committee'? And, as far as I can see, this issue will be divided into 2 sub issues and we have to consider both of them. #1 On what we should spend money #2 How to manage the budget Each issue need to be broken down in order to clarify what are needed to be done. For example: #1 On what we should spend money - What do Ambassadors need exactly? -- Do we need to survey? - How many events, which openSUSE Ambassadors and/or community members are going to organize/participate in, will take place for the next year? -- How many attendees are expected for each events? - Who can/How we can decide the priority for those needs? - How much will they be expected to cost? -- e.g. If we think about making t-shirts for promotion, how many t-shirts are needed for 1 year? How much is the unit price of them? - Should/Can we cover actual cost (e.g. transportation expenses, the cost of printing posters, leaflets, etc. for events) for Ambassadors? -- In that case, we need some criteria, assumptions and procedure. How should they be? #2 How to manage the budget - How we can bring decisions and evidences into view for both Novell and community? -- Who will preserve the records and how? - Who should be responsible for managing promotional stuffs? -- Who will receive the requests from Ambassadors, send them stuffs and manage inventory? --- Once those are clearly defined, the procedure how Ambassadors can request stuffs for events should be written clearly somewhere on the Wiki, so that Zonker don't need to respond to each of the questions again and again. ;-) - How we can send money and get a receipt for that, in case we need to send Ambassadors actual cost for some reasons? Those are just my wild ass guesses and need to be examined. However, every particular items should be discussed and decided, and IMHO, those are the tasks for members of the 'steering committee'. Comments are welcomed. Best, -- _/_/ Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/ _/_/ Marketing/Weekly News/openFATE Screening Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: helios_reds_at_gmx.net / irc: HeliosReds _/_/ _/_/ http://blog.geeko.jp/author/heliosreds _/_/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org