RES: [Ambassadors] inactive ambassadors, a proposed solution

Thu Feb 19 19:20:51 UTC 2009

I wanted to be an active member of fedora and able to participate in events
such as an installer or help you see the configuration of servers and users
.... is little English but I'm looking for it

2009/2/19 Charly Manjarrez <charlymanja at yahoo.com.mx>

> This is true, not all Ambassadors works with the list, i work with the
> people in my city with my own resources providing DVDs and help!!! maybe i
> am not a very active in the list, but there are to many who works!!!
>
> I think we have to ask to the Ambassadors if they want been part of this
> project or make a list to re-subscribe on the FAS
>
> regards!!!
>
>
> Rodrigo Menezes wrote:
>
>> María,
>>
>> How can you identify a Ambassador who really works for the Project?
>>
>> Contribute as an Ambassador doesn't mean that you need to work in a
>> upstream
>> Project. If I produce lectures in my city (a small city in South Brazil),
>> I'm contributing, and this work will never be noticed by you. How can you
>> define if I'm working or not?
>>
>> How can you assign task for some Ambassador who use all of his free time
>> to
>> distribute DVDs, produce lectures? You cannot.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Rodrigo Menezes
>>
>>
>>
>> De: fedora-ambassadors-list-bounces at redhat.com
>> [mailto:fedora-ambassadors-list-bounces at redhat.com] Em nome de María
>> Leandro
>> Enviada em: quinta-feira, 19 de fevereiro de 2009 13:26
>> Para: fedora-ambassadors-list at redhat.com
>> Assunto: Re: [Ambassadors] inactive ambassadors, a proposed solution
>>
>> We also know that we have some ambassadors that don't contribute with any
>> project. What do we do with them?
>>
>> I think we should contact them an assign some task... just to incorporate
>> them to the team
>>
>> 2009/2/20 Ashiqur Rahman Angel <angel at linux.org.bd>
>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Max Spevack <mspevack at redhat.com> wrote:
>> The purpose of this email is to try to lay out a roadmap for solving, once
>> and for all, the question of inactive Fedora Ambassadors.
>>
>> GOALS OF IDENTIFYING INACTIVE AMBASSADORS:
>>
>> (1) Housekeeping.  All projects need to have their membership rosters
>> pruned
>> from time to time.  In Ambassadors, this is particularly important because
>> non-Fedora people might get in touch with Ambassadors, and if they don't
>> receive a response, it looks like Fedora is ignorning them.  Other
>> sub-projects for which identifying inactive ambassadors are crucial is
>> packaging.  If someone drops off the face of the earth, their packages
>> need
>> to be given to a new owner.
>>
>> Pages that need to a "refresh" policy:
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/CountryList <-- I argue that
>> CountryList is the wrong name for this page, and it should be called
>> Directory.
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/MembershipService/Verification
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Count <-- why do we even need
>> this page?  Doesn't the CountryList page serve the same purpose?
>>
>> How often are these pages currently updated?  Is the process manual or
>> automated, or a mixture of both?
>>
>>
>> (2) Give a more prominent location to the "list of ambassadors per
>> country".
>>  That page should be the most visited page in all of Fedora Ambassadors.
>>  People who are trying to find out about Fedora should be visiting it, and
>> Ambassadors who are looking for other Fedora folks near them should be
>> visiting it.
>>
>> We should have something on fedoraproject.org that says "are you
>> interested
>> in Fedora?  Find a Fedora Ambassador near you to give you some
>> information"
>> and you type in your location, and it spits back a list of Ambassadors
>> near
>> you.
>>
>>
>> (3) In order for any of (2) to be successful, we need to make sure that
>> the
>> people who are listed as Ambassadors are actually paying attention to the
>> Ambassadors part of Fedora.  If someone is not, it doesn't mean that they
>> are a bad person -- it just means that they don't want to have to deal
>> with
>> organizing events or asking questions from newbies to the project.
>>
>> I wouldn't be offended if someone removed me from the Fedora
>> Infrastructure
>> group in FAS, because *I DON'T DO ANYTHING WITH FEDORA INFRASTRUCTURE*.
>>  It
>> doesn't mean I'm a bad person or not a Fedora contributor, it just means
>> that I don't participate in that part of Fedora.
>>
>>
>> HOW DO WE IDENTIFY ACTIVE AMBASSADORS?
>>
>> We come up with a policy that is simple, and fair.
>>
>> An active ambassador is someone who:
>>
>> 1) Has joined the group in FAS.
>> 2) Reads and/or posts on fedora-ambassadors-list.
>> 3) Has a useful, up-to-date personal page on the Fedora wiki.
>>
>> And does one or more of:
>>
>> * Attends or organizes an event once in a release cycle.
>> * Maintains a blog on Planet Fedora, with about one post per month.
>> * Participates on fedora-list or fedoraforum.org to help people w/
>> questions.
>> * Indicates their willingness to mentor and guide new contributors or new
>> users.
>>
>> +1
>>  WHAT DO WE DO WITH INACTIVE AMBASSADORS?
>>
>> If someone is inactive, we *DO NOT* kick them out of the ambassadors group
>> in FAS, and we *DO NOT* remove them from fedora-ambassadors list.
>>
>> But we should remove them from the "directory of Ambassadors sorted by
>> country", which I argue again needs to be much more visible and useful, so
>> that those inactive Ambassadors aren't being asked to do public-facing
>> things.
>>
>> When someone re-surfaces or has more time for Ambassadors, we put them
>> back
>> on the directory.
>>
>> ==================
>>
>> Flame me.
>>
>> --Max
>>
>> But what do we do with inactive Ambassadors, who are inactive from a long
>> time? Are they Ambassadors for ever??!!
>>
>>
>>
>>
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