[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Ambassador's Purpose
Robert 'Bob' Jensen
marketing-list at fedoralinks.org
Fri Mar 10 04:35:13 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 22:49 -0500, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> My comments inline.
>
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Robert 'Bob' Jensen wrote:
>
> > After 4 months in the ambassador project I have several questions and
> > also some opinions. I will answer my own questions so you know where I
> > am coming from.
> >
> > Why are we ambassadors?
> >
> > I am an ambassador so I can better present Fedora to groups of people
> > through Slides and structured content.
> >
> > Do small events count?
> >
> > I do not think our current format lends itself to discussing general
> > ideas of bringing Fedora to the masses. I get the feeling that our
> > leadership is of the opinion that large high profile events are the ones
> > that count. Everything else is just filler.
>
> Perhaps this is a problem with how we structure the meetings. It's an
> hour of "talking about upcoming events" and sometimes not much else. I
> think this is largely a problem of scalability.
>
> > Should ambassadors be members of the marketing list?
> >
> > I think they should. Many ideas that have been posted to the PRIVATE
> > Ambassadors list should have been posted to the PUBLIC Marketing list
> > for greater input.
>
> I agree.
>
> > What should the ambassadors project and list focus on?
> >
> > They should focus on supporting Ambassadors and events no matter how
> > small.
>
> I strongly agree. This was the initial charter for the Ambassadors
> project.
>
> > Where did the Ambassadors project come from?
> >
> > For more information on this you will have to look at the Oct 2005
> > archives of the marketing list.
> >
> > What happened to the Marketing project?
> >
> > It would seem that leadership lost focus, the Ambassadors project was
> > created from this lack of focus as a subproject and the general
> > marketing project was allowed to die.
>
> The Ambassadors project is strongly focused on clear action: get people in
> front of other people to talk about Fedora, with the tools required to
> do so intelligently.
>
> > Why is the Ambassadors list private?
> >
> > The Ambassadors list was made private as I remember to prevent people
> > from signing up just to get free stuff and promo items.
>
> Do we need to revisit this? I honestly don't even remember if the
> archives are public or private.
>
> > What can we do to make things better?
> >
> > I think we need to re-ignite the Marketing project as the driving force
> > of Fedora Marketing. Bring Marketing Tasks back in to the Public view,
> > part of this will be to Focus the Ambassadors project on supporting
> > Ambassadors in getting to events and related items including giveaway
> > "stuff" and keep Marketing in the marketing list.
>
> There's a natural bleed-over, and because I'm on both lists, I don't even
> notice when that bleed-over has occured.
>
> Marketing is a good place for generating ideas. The still-open question:
> is it a good place for generating action? Not without strong leadership.
> Possibly even fairly autocratic leadership.
>
> The problem with marketing is that "the right path" is usually not nearly
> as clear as in engineering matters.
>
> --g
>
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I personally do not think this needs to change as long as we ask
Ambassadors to be members of the public marketing list and discuss
community items there.
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Robert 'Bob' Jensen <marketing-list at fedoralinks.org>
Fedora Marketing Projects
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