Ambassador/Brainstorming

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Proposals, opinions and questions about Ambassador program and prevent those discussions from being scattered and lost. All in this page are just drafts that are expected to be discussed further and implemented. So, feel free to add your comments and improve this page. ;-) }}

What are the tasks and commissions of Ambassadors ?

Tasks

• All Ambassadors must ...
  • Sign the Guiding Principles.
  • Subscribe to the Mailing List (marketing, announce & project). --Sascha Manns 22:15, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

• All Ambassadors should ...
  • Have a fair amount of knowledge about openSUSE. --Zonker
  • Report local events they participated to -marketing list or in their blogs. --HeliosReds 04:44, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
  • Actively participate the meeting for Ambassadors and discussions about this program in -marketing list. --HeliosReds 04:44, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
  • Provide templates, artworks and so on which they used for their local events or presentations so that other Ambassadors can share and reuse them. --HeliosReds 04:44, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

• All Ambassadors are recommended to ...
  • Speak at local events like Linuxfests, Linux User Group meetings, and other gatherings where people may be interested in learning about Linux, open source, and the openSUSE Project.
  • Help out in the openSUSE booth at events.
  • Plan events, installfests, and openSUSE Launch parties in your area.
  • Be a friendly "face" on openSUSE mailing lists, forums, and IRC channels, answer questions about use of openSUSE and contribution to the openSUSE Project.
  • Help manage social media groups related to openSUSE.
  • Show your coworkers, friends, and family members how to switch to openSUSE from Windows or Mac OS X.
  • Come up with new and creative ways to promote openSUSE locally and globally.
  • Serve as a regional contact for openSUSE.
  • Help distribute openSUSE DVDs/media to other Ambassadors.
    • --those are citations from Ambassadors page

Benefits and rights

• All Ambassadors can ...

• All Ampassadors are permitted to ...

What are needed for Ambassador program ?

Infrastructure

• Social Network

I was watching this list's activities from morning and was silently
working to bring something to this community which will make it more
alive! A mailing list and wiki are not always enough. From my long
experience I know what are the needs of new ambassadors :)

I think finally after the whole day's long effort I am finally ready
to announce our very own community website where we can share
videos/images. We can write blogs, create groups, discuss in forums,
listen to music and many more things. This is OpenSUSE Global
Community for you my friends :) hope you like it. I also request you
to collaborate and improve it.

[snip]

Join OpenSUSE Global Community here :
http://opensuse.ning.com/main/authorization/signUp

                  --ADM

• Please create an online order place where our community members will be able to order SWAGs for events (That's what SUN community does). --ADM
• Calendar that can be filled in by Ambassadors with schedules of their openSUSE and FOSS related local events. --HeliosReds 07:46, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Structure/Organization

• Regional Coordinators

In the weekly News, we have one representant for each Translation Team.
The so called "Coordinators" are managing their local Needs, and give us
( Jan & me) an Feedback.
So my proposal is, that we can break the Earth in some Zones. Maybe
North, Middle and Southamerica, Europe Middle East, and so far.
So we can declare some Ambassadors as Coordinators for one Zone. Every
Ambassador works for this Zone, and hold Contact to the local
Ambassadors.
                  --Sascha Manns

Wiki improvements

• Ambassador List
  • Proposal from Sascha and gnokii
  • Proposal from HeliosReds
  • Proposal from Rajko and Marcus Moeller
  • Would it be possible to install the MediaWiki Google Map plugin, so that the wiki page data can be used to generate the map instead of registering on a separate site? --James Mason
• Events page
  • There we can place Events, that are supported by Ambassadors, and an second List for Events who are looking for Support. So we have an good Overview, which Ambassador is present, or needs help.

Budgets

• A little budget (elementary) for benzine/petrol/gasoline for traveling --aliks-os
• A little budget for printing posters in print shop on native language --aliks-os

Materials

For local events

• Promotional DVDs
  • Can we order DVDs from this web form ?
• Polos
  • How can we order them ?
    • Polos are not cheap, the fedora ambassadors buy them! Everey shirt costs 20€ -- gnoki
• Business cards
  • We will probably make a template available so that people can make their own cards. --Zonker
    • Who will make the template ?
• A special guide/howto to make it easier and better organized.
  • Who can make them actually ?
• Laptop for demonstrating openSUSE at the booth.
• Event Box
  • What do YOU expect to be in this box ?
    • Banners
    • Flags
    • Posters
    • Power strip
    • Electrical transformer
    • LAN cables
    • Switching hub
    • White board and felt pens
• Give aways
  • Buttons - like this on http://purebuttons.com/ we can provide, a template for printing -- gnokii
  • Stickers -- gnokii

Templates

• A template file of posters, which will be translated on my native language (by myself) --aliks-os
• a template file for computer presentation --aliks-os
  • Are those enough ? Or, We have to make other new ones ? --HeliosReds 04:44, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
  • We probably should have presentations and materials aimed at specific market groups such as Education, New Users, Developers etc. --Yorick 04:06, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

• Leaflets for introducing openSUSE to the visitors and for FAQ.
  • Who can make them actually ?
• Letter-Templates
  • OpenOffice Writer Templates for Correspodending --Sascha Manns 15:53, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Other stuffs

Misc. ideas and proposals

• It will be nice if openSUSE can start sponsoring events too (That's what Fedora community does). --ADM
• How about having Ambassadors Meeting regulary ?
  • Monthly, bi-weekly or weekly ?
  • How can we find out the convenient time for all Ambassadors ?

Passed QA check: Fsundermeyer 10:57, 15 June 2009 (UTC)