Dear awesome Ambassadors and Marketeers, We are very excited to announce a new program for our Ambassadors to be able to travel to important events in their regions and promote openSUSE. Over the past few months, Jos and I lobbied and recently received approval from Attachmate to create this program. Each quarter, the Ambassador Team will be allowed to reimburse up to $5,000 (USD) for transportation/hotel expenses.
How it works: * At least one month prior to the start of each quarter, ambassadors discuss and make a proposal for expenses to events and other promotion opportunities globally. * The Ambassadors will determine the long term event strategy; deciding which events should be supported with these funds. Jos and I will provide any advice or encouragement needed throughout the process. * Jos has final approval of any expenses. Ambassadors will be reimbursed up to 80% of their personal expenses. * Each quarter is as follows: August 1 - October 31 (Proposal Deadline - July 1) November 1 - Jan 31 (Proposal Deadline - October 1) February 1 - April 30 (Proposal Deadline - Jan 1) May 1 - July 31 (Proposal Deadline - April 1) Why we are doing this? We have two purposes here: A) Tto empower the Ambassador Team to strategically develop a plan of action and determine for itself where it can make the most successes. B) To develop a long-term strategy and schedule. This will improve the flow of funding in a quick manner and also help us to determine what materials and other preparations are needed for the entire year. While this is a quarterly program, we encourage the Ambassadors to think long term (up to 1 year) and identify as many potential events globally. This will help us to better allocate our limited resources. (For example, we are already out of Promo DVDs currently. Long-term planning would help us better anticipate our printing needs.) It will be up to you to determine how best to discuss/document/propose actions. Thanks and feel free to ask any questions you may have! Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Marketing Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
