On Sunday 26 September 2010 01:27:43 Kostas Boukouvalas wrote: > On 25 September 2010 20:21, Nelson Marques <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I don't know how things work in other places, but a smile and a bold > > attitude usually does the thing.This is mainly my experience in > > Portugal, dunno abroad. > > > > nelson > > > > Yes, this is right, but this is my generic situation when I go asking > something. Usually the combination of a damn paper with a signature on > it is the "something more" you need in order to go to the same place > for a second time and to have a "generic prehistory" in case the > administration there changes. > > On the other hand when we have to do with schools, always there will > be the fear of the parent who is suspicious to the man who gives a > talk to his child - and in my opinion this is fully understandable.
Henne wrote something about legal mumbojumbo - I know little about that and like to keep it that way. He's right in that the openSUSE Foundation should be of big help in this area, creating a legal entity which represents us. However, you can introduce yourself as an official openSUSE ambassador - you're on the list after all. If they ask for any credentials, how about your refer them to someone here who has? You could abuse the Board for this: just put suseROCKs in CC and say he's a member of the openSUSE Board. When you contact them, for example, you can CC him and say "hey and this is an openSUSE Board Member, he doesn't speak Greek but I just let him know I contacted you". He will probably just move the mail to trash or something but it might give them the impression that there is something official going on... I am sure Bryen would love to get more mails, especially if he can't read them :D Or you can use me, I have 'manager' in my title and while that doesn't count for much to us here, it might be just what they want to hear ;-) A final option would be to make up a new title. Let's say we make Carlos our Ambassador Manager so you can spam HIM :D Would any of that be helpful?
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