News: openSUSE Membership; Community Manager Joe Brockmeier
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Apart from the openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2 release coming this Thursday, there are a couple of exciting things happening in the openSUSE world:
openSUSE Membership
For a long time the openSUSE project had no fully defined way of distinguishing active and continuously helpful people in the openSUSE project. If you’re in the project then it becomes quite palpable quickly who is doing a lot of great stuff and whatnot, but many people in the project echoed a need for better processes of handling, for example, @opensuse.org email addresses and IRC cloaks.
The result of this can be seen by what we think of as openSUSE Members (see the page for all the details). So, if you are doing great stuff for openSUSE, please do apply and let us know! 
At the moment only the board members are listed, but during our next meeting I hope to publish a much longer list of openSUSE members. If you are an openSUSE member, please try to provide a wiki page or at least a page where you can specify your contributions so anyone else can easily find out about you.
openSUSE Community Manager: Joe Brockmeier
It’s great to see that after many months of interviews and work for a Chief openSUSE Linux Evangelist, openSUSE has a new community manager: Joe Brockmeier. One thing that has sorely been needed in the openSUSE project is extra marketing and community management. It’s wonderful to see both of these very key and essential issues being tackled and I’m confident now that Joe will do remarkable things for openSUSE.
If you want to find out a little more, take a look at a few of his recent interviews or articles about the new job-position:
- CIO.com: Interview: OpenSUSE’s New Tech Evangelist
- DownloadSquad: Interview: openSUSE’s new Community Manager, Joe Brockmeier
- ComputerWorldUK: OpenSUSE’s new tech evangelist spells it out
- Bruce Byfield: Zonker Brockmeier, openSUSE Community Manager
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