On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Jos Poortvliet <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey marketing team, > > Based on our IRC discussion yesterday a more extensive proposal, > connected to the mail I just send to the boosters with you in CC: > > Our ambassadors are often local (many don't even speak English, or > barely); so what we do with/for them has to be translatable, easy to > read or in their hands. They often spend not a huge amount of time on > openSUSE; so what we do for/with them should not take much time. And the > fact they are ambassador gives them some credibility; so we should make > that clear. > > Currently, we have an ambassador mailinglist. Some ambassadors are on > there; many are not (like most of the active people in Brazil or Greece > - despite those countries being among the most active for us, as far as > we know). They usually have a local mailinglist (not on openSUSE > infrastructure) which they use for planning and discussing. > > First, I would like to propose to bring such mailinglists to openSUSE > infrastructure. That means - let ambassadors ask for a language/region > specific mailinglist. Not too many rules, if they feel they need one for > something, give it. But there should be one limitation: at least one or > two active people on that list should be on the international ambassador > mailinglist; and we need a one-way, moderated mailinglist to reach ALL > ambassador lists at once for things that concern everybody. > > Second, let them create a localized ambassador team page on the wiki (or > on connect.opensuse.org, dunno what makes most sense). Actually, it'd be > great if they had an English page which is translated - so each team > (the Greek team, Brazil team etc) has a page on the wiki; and it is > translated in their language(s). They can have links there to the > mailinglist and the forum place they hang out, as well as their IRC > channel(s). > > This will allow countries/regions to build their own team. Yet, due to > the requirement of having 1-2 ppl on the international list, we are > connected. > > Now we need to make sure there is communication as much as possible. The > ambassadors should get the word out on what they do - that's what the > ambassador report stuff is for, which I mailed to the Boosters team. I > hope we can make that happen. > > Cheers, > Jos >
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