openSUSE Welcomes Zonker - The New Community Manager

FYI - I posted the following on news.opensuse.org and I consider it
important enough to share it with those that don't read news.o.o
regulary (you should anyway ;-):

I? like to give a warm welcome to Joe ?Zonker?Brockmeier who joins the
openSUSE project as ?openSUSE community manager?. You can reach him
directly at zonker@opensuse.org. He has his own openSUSE blog at
http://zonker.opensuse.org, I advise to go over and see what he has to
say himself!

He is a long time Linux user and does a lot of writing about Linux and
open source for several publications and conributed to books as
well. Prior to his new role as community manager for openSUSE he served
Linux Magazine as Editor-in-Chief. His personal webpage is
http://www.dissociatedpress.net.

The openSUSE community manager will act as community advocate and
ombudsman thus relaying openSUSE community and users needs back to
Novell. Therefore you will find Zonker on many community events. He will
also drive marketing programs around openSUSE to make the project more
successful and attract more developers and users.

Zonker will be travelling the next weeks and you can meet him and other
openSUSE members at these two venues:

    * at SCALE from 8th to 10th February
    * at FOSDEM from 23th to 24th February

For those that wonder what happened with the ?openSUSE Chief evangelist?
position that was opened in October: This is exactly the position, we
just found it more suitable to change the title of Joe.

I have talked a lot with Zonker through the last weeks and look forward
to work with him - and look forward meeting him soon in person here in
Nürnberg!


Andreas
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