On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 11:10 -0700, R. Tyler Ballance wrote: > On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Chuck Payne wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:34 PM, R. Tyler Ballance <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > One of the results of today's team meeting was the finalization of the > > > Marketing Liaison page: > > > http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Marketing_liaison > > > > > > I mentioned to AJ it would be helpful if we had the following > > > resources/guides > > > enumerated in the Marketing portal somewhere: > > > > > > * How-to interact with the Weekly Newsletter team regarding your > > > team/project > > > * Tips for announcing releases/submitting content to news.o.o > > > * ?? > > > > > > > > > Anything else I'm missing that would be helpful for those of us new to the > > > marketing team? > > > > So what is the difference between Ambassador and liason? Do you have > > to be a developer to be one? > > > From my understanding of the two initiatives: > > * Ambassadors help with events, LUGs and promote openSUSE in their > communities > > * Liaisons are part-time volunteers with the marketing team that work with > specific sub-projects inside the openSUSE project, such as Smeegol, OBS, > GNOME, LXDE, KDE, etc, helping get news and information to the broader > openSUSE user-base about "what's going on" with the specific project > > > I don't think they're mutually exclusive, but they're not the same thing > either > IMHO. > > Cheers, > -R. Tyler Ballance
RTyler is correct. It is a function within the marketing team in which someone volunteers to be a subject matter expert on some sub-group of the openSUSE Project. The fact of the matter is, none of us can be all-knowing about everything happening in the project. But if people volunteer to be the "eye" on specific projects, we can rely on that person to inform us when there is something important the Marketing Team should be promoting. Such as, a new release of OBS, or interesting things going on in the KDE team, or something like that. The Liaison is not exactly a public-facing role like the Ambassador program is. It is simply someone becoming subject matter expert in a specific field so that we have someone on our team we can rely on to give us information. I'll work to clarify this in the page in the coming days. Thanks for bringing this up! Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Marketing Team lead -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
