[Ambassadors] [Fwd: [Fwd: Re: Tasks and followup]]

[rafael liu]

The idea was to embed info in the URLs?.. that would require some pretty
lengthy URLs and would be more difficult to register.. Other than that:

(1) would be cool to know where we get most of our new members

(2) something I really would like to see happening.. I've already exposed my
concern about new members being lost once they get join the community. A
mentoring or something would be helpful in that case

Rafael Liu



2008/8/12 Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com>

> Forwarded from fedora-infrastructure-list.  More below...
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > From: Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com>
> > To: Fedora Infrastructure <fedora-infrastructure-list at redhat.com>
> > Subject: [Fwd: Re: Tasks and followup]
> > Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:43:44 -0400
> >
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 15:52 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Apologies for this being an idea with no code attached.  I'm
> hoping that
> > > > > > > some of the able folks are on this list and will see something
> > > > > > > achievable.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Something the Community Architecture folks and I have
> discovered is that
> > > > > > > when we sign up new folks for an account, there's not any way
> to mark
> > > > > > > them for follow up or to indicate a note for where they did it.
>  A
> > > > > > > couple methods for doing this come to mind:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > 1.  Simple but effective -- a way to tag account holders
> arbitrarily.
> > > > > > > This might help with a number of things, like skill sets,
> karma, and so
> > > > > > > forth.  In this case, the tag would allow Ambassadors to follow
> up on
> > > > > > > particular shows by listing everyone with "FooCon 2008" in
> their tag
> > > > > > > list.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > 2.  More complicated but possibly more predictable -- A plugin
> for FAS
> > > > > > > that would allow ambassadors to request or create a special
> signup
> > > > > > > portal, and use it at a show to help visitors sign up (e.g.
> > > > > > > join.fp.o/foocon2008 or foocon2008.join.fp.o).
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'd say 2 is pretty easy in a plugin.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/promo/sign-up/MyPromo
> > > > > >
> > > > > > where MyPromo could just be arbitrary.  It'd get flagged
> somewhere that we
> > > > > > could get it later.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The point of this is so users can sign up with some sort of flag
> on how
> > > > > > they found out about Fedora, and then run stats on it later?
> > > > >
> > > > > Not just stats, but also to get people "assigned" geographically to
> > > > > Ambassadors or some other mentor group, in a way that makes sense
> and
> > > > > maximizes stickiness.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > So something more exact then timezone, locale and country or could
> this
> > > > metric bet completely independent of those values?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Another note on that, if we split up the ambassadors into regions (I
> > > suspect they already are) would it be better to just create a group for
> > > each region managed by the ambassadors?
> >
> > We could create FAS groups for regions, sure.  But there's also
> > particular ambassadors to consider -- for example, an Ambassador who
> > works on Websites might target a new signup for helping with Websites,
> > even though that new person lives in a different country.
> >
> > Maybe groups plus the portal plugin would do the trick.  I'll ask around
> > with the Ambassadors.
>
> And so... Ambassadors, would this work for you?  Let's try not to extend
> this idea in too many directions at once.  The goal is simply to make
> sure that when you are at a show, and someone signs up for Fedora, you
> have a way of (1) capturing the fact that they signed up at that
> particular show, and (2) having some way of connecting them to yourself
> or another Ambassador (as appopriate) to help find them a way to help in
> Fedora that makes them happy.
>
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