On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 5:19 PM Richard Brown <rbrown@suse.de> wrote:
On Mon, 2020-01-27 at 08:12 +0100, Sarah Julia Kriesch wrote:
You are living in China. We don't have many Contributors in China and therefore our Chinese list with Advovates at open-source events is not really long[0] with 1 Advocate. That is what I meant that we need more Advocates at open-source events.
There may not be many Chinese people listed on that old crusty wiki page but as a champion of the openSUSE Asia community I have to strongly object to any suggestion that "we don't have many Contributors in China"
We have a lot, and I hope none of them are insulted by the suggestion from a Board candidate that they don't exist.
One of my most exhilerating times as a community member was meeting so many of them in Bejing in 2014 (Group photo linked below).
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3928/15378270997_b59755f92a_b.jpg
While I haven't been able to see them as often as I'd have linked in the years since, I see evidence of the fine work of our Chinese contributors in every openSUSE Asia conference since and their fingerprints all over our project, from code, to creating art, to helping conference booths across the world.
You may be quiet and unassuming enough for Sarah to have missed you but I want this public record to show that I know you exist, love the work you are doing, and I'm sure you'll help us welcome Ariez to the community with open arms.
Thank you Richard! I'm usually a bit quiet on this ML but I'm also an openSUSE Member and contributor [1] from Hong Kong. I will help Ariez in anyway I can :). About about the "We don't have many Contributors in China" I also find it to be untrue. Our openSUSE Discord server has 2 moderators from China (including myself) and there are other openSUSE chat groups in Chinese language using IRC and other platforms. Also, having been to openSUSE Asia and COScon myself, I had the pleasure to meet openSUSE Board members and many openSUSE contributors from China and other countries in Asia. I case there is doubt because we maybe don't participate much in ML discussions, we do exist :) Have a lot of fun! [1] https://en.opensuse.org/User:Mauriziogalli -- Maurizio Galli (MauG) Xfce Team https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Xfce https://en.opensuse.org/User:Mauriziogalli -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org