On Saturday 25 September 2010 12:09:06 Kostas Boukouvalas wrote: > Hi, > > *In case of need* because - as Stathis mentioned - many times we' ll > probably have the opportunity to present openSUSE in schools and other > organizations that may be somewhat suspicious about "the 'hacker' in > front", what is the official bureau of the openSUSE community, > recognized by law in the European Union by which we could have a > signature over a piece of paper? > > In case there is not one, at who do we go for this? Novell? > > Thank you
Thank you for starting this topic. The same case was mentioned as a problem in some places in India, during meeting that was organized around that topic, on IRC #opensuse-in channel. They think that it would be much easier to approach people in charge to approve event in school or college, when person has some formal recognition by openSUSE. The gist of whole discussion was that despite prevalent meritocracy in FOSS where people that are active and productive are recognized as leaders, there is also outside world that has no time to dive into FOSS projects and learn who is who after hours or days of reading. That world needs simple ways to check who is the person approaching them and asking for their time. If we would have some formal recognition to help outside people check credentials, potential to present openSUSE will be drastically improved. We would not have to search for people inclined to FOSS in order to get time to present openSUSE, but actively advertise our presence to schools and colleges. It is much easier to locate school then FOSS inclined person within school. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
