Re: [opensuse-marketing] Novell sponsored training for Ambassadors?

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On 5/13/2011 at 12:10 PM, in message <4DCD7407.8080805@gmail.com>, Roger Luedecke wrote: I think it might be a good move if training and certification were offered free to Ambassadors. Something like the Certified Linux Administrator. I think it would be a huge boon to assuring competent and helpful community. Thoughts? Can we harass Novell about this idea?

Roger, I'm intrigued with this idea. I think that offering something like this to our Ambassadors is a great idea, and ask for your help to make this idea feasible. Here's my concern. Since the process to become an Ambassador is very simple [1], we don't want people signing up as Ambassadors simply as a free mechanism to get their CLA. This would create work, clutter and noise to our community. People would sign up and then we would never hear from them again. It would also create extra expense (as in real $) to our community and/or SUSE as a sponsor; money expended without benefit to our community. Help me come up with a workable proposal. How can we offer this to "real" Ambassadors and filter out those who would just abuse the benefit? As you pointed out " it would be a huge boon to assuring competent and helpful community", it would be a great incentive to become an Ambassador and a great personal benefit to the Ambassador (aka resume item). Also by the way thanks for being willing to post the idea. Alan [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors#How_do_I_join.3F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org