Hello,
Regarding the deadline, it's good to know when the event takes place for
the budget.
A question-note I have is this:
In Greece we know the big events we'll apply. We don't know the exact
day though. We discuss it at our first ambassadors meeting. So the
person who will create the page where we can enter the event, have to
make space for the month and not the exacd date of the month and also
how many will attend to the booth or talk.
What about smaller events that people invite us? An example here was the
event we went a day before Christmas in Florina. We decided to go about
a week before. So regarding the timelines you give us, we had to know
that on October 1st.
Regarding the type of the events or talks, I think more important is the
booth staff because we talk to people about our project.
My first thoughts
Stathis
Στις 28/07/2011 10:43 πμ, ο/η Kostas Koudaras έγραψε:
Well I have like 2.000 questions ;-)
I will start with a few that might answer many other questions.
1) When this program starts? If it already started we are a bit late
for the first deadline, should we arrange an ambassador meeting to
decide which events we will attend until the 31 of October?
2) Do we have a list of events that ambassadors MUST attend? We
probably need to create a list in the wiki with dates of future events
until May of 2012,right?
3) Priority is a great subject here, how do the team define who
ambassador has priority on going to events?
4) I suppose for an ambassador to attend on an event he/she should
apply for a talk about the community, right? Can ambassadors attend
events that won't be able to give a talk?
5) Timing is also another great subject, those who apply earlier for
an event have priority over others?
6) If we have to choose among 3 local events(that are cheaper) versus
1 global event, that have the same cost, what do we choose?
7) If one quarter we have fewer events and we don't spend the whole
budget can we use those money on the next quarter?
8) Are registration fee's included and is it possible for SUSE to give
ambassadors (if available) free access on events so that the whole
event will cost less?
1992 questions left for later ;-)
2011/7/28 Bryen M. Yunashko<susero...@bryen.com>:
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
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