On Thursday 01 July 2010 07:05:10 Satoru Matsumoto wrote:
(2010/06/30 5:43), Koushik Kumar Nundy wrote:
I can only speak for myself. In the past year or so - -I have done and personally overseen over 100 individual oS installs. -Handled openSUSE in two installfests. -Taken introductory classes for primary school teachers, albeit as part of a larger group -provided round the year support for around 50 users at town/institute -guided new users -gave several impassioned 'Why openSUSE' speeches to groups and individuals alike. -Ran word-of-mouth as well as DVD distribution campaigns in Mukti, a LUG symposium with over 1000 registrations. -followed strict openSUSE oriented policy in our startup despite disgruntled associates -tried to help on the social media visibility front, mostly twitter.
Excellent !
As you may know, we have 'From Ambassadors' corner in our Weekly News. Example: http://wiki.opensuse.org/Archive:Weekly_news_121#From_Ambassadors
The corner is aimed at introducing activities of Ambassadors and we, Weekly News Team, hope as many Ambassadors as possible will report their efforts to promote openSUSE in their regions/countries/cities, so that we can share knowledge, experiences and ideas with each other.
So, if you {do|did|are going to do} something as an Ambassador, please post blog entry about that and drop us a note.
It is not necessary to write the article in English, if you are not good at writing sentences in English. In that case, just post blog entry in your native language and drop us a note with a short summary in English, for example: "I attended $LOCAL_EVENT_NAME as an openSUSE Ambassador. Here's my report on that event in $YOUR_LANGUAGE..."
Even if you are not good at writing actually, you can still report your activities by taking pictures at local events and uploading them to online photo sharing service like Flickr.
I know there's a proverb "Silence is golden" - but at least in marketing area, that's not true. If you are an Ambassador, don't hesitate to be big-mouthed. ;-)
Best,
I took the liberty to copy & paste from the above text and from Sascha's and create a new section in the new ambassador page with this contents: http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors#Sharing_and_Talking thanks, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126