Re: [opensuse-marketing] Question about bureaucracy

2010-09-29 Thread Rajko M.
On Monday 27 September 2010 05:09:00 Henne Vogelsang wrote: > We have a status like that: Membership. What do you think needs to be > improved to make this more recognizable for the outside world? Speed up creation of foundation, please. Then, all that I see as need for source of credibility for

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Question about bureaucracy

2010-09-28 Thread Kostas Boukouvalas
On 28 September 2010 15:41, Jos Poortvliet wrote: > On Sunday 26 September 2010 01:27:43 Kostas Boukouvalas wrote: >> On 25 September 2010 20:21, Nelson Marques wrote: >> > >> >  I don't know how things work in other places, but a smile and a bold >> > attitude usually does the thing.This is main

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Question about bureaucracy

2010-09-28 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Sunday 26 September 2010 01:27:43 Kostas Boukouvalas wrote: > On 25 September 2010 20:21, Nelson Marques 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. > > > >

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Question about bureaucracy

2010-09-28 Thread Henne Vogelsang
Hi Kostas, On 27.09.2010 17:45, Kostas Boukouvalas wrote: > On 27 September 2010 13:09, Henne Vogelsang wrote: >> Can you tell us in which situation you would need a signature for >> what? This is the first time we hear about something like that. Please >> elaborate. > > The relationship between

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Question about bureaucracy

2010-09-27 Thread Kostas Boukouvalas
I apologise for the FW, I messed up with HTML denial. On 27 September 2010 18:45, Kostas Boukouvalas wrote: > On 27 September 2010 13:09, Henne Vogelsang wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> openSUSE is no official organization. It's an open source project. The board >> is working on making an official "f

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Question about bureaucracy

2010-09-27 Thread Henne Vogelsang
Hi, On 9/26/10 1:48 AM, Rajko M. wrote: On Saturday 25 September 2010 12:09:06 Kostas Boukouvalas wrote: *In case of need* because - as Stathis mentioned - many times we' ll probably have the opportunity to present openSUSE in schools and other organizations that may be somewhat suspicious abo

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Question about bureaucracy

2010-09-25 Thread Rajko M.
On Saturday 25 September 2010 12:09:06 Kostas Boukouvalas wrote: > Hi, > > *In case of need* because - as Stathis mentioned - many times we' ll > probably have the opportunity to present openSUSE in schools and other > organizations that may be somewhat suspicious about "the 'hacker' in > front",

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Question about bureaucracy

2010-09-25 Thread Kostas Boukouvalas
On 25 September 2010 20:21, Nelson Marques 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 aski

Re: [opensuse-marketing] Question about bureaucracy

2010-09-25 Thread Nelson Marques
Hi, I'm running a similar case and I'm going to do a workshop in my former high school. They have been pretty cool, but I am a former student from that institution and I know many people there, so I get some credibility. Last year I've also contacted the City Hall of Aveiro and the City Hall of

[opensuse-marketing] Question about bureaucracy

2010-09-25 Thread Kostas Boukouvalas
Hi, *In case of need* because - as Stathis mentioned - many times we' ll probably have the opportunity to present openSUSE in schools and other organizations that may be somewhat suspicious about "the 'hacker' in front", what is the official bureau of the openSUSE community, recognized by law in t