[Ambassadors] Proposal for "Quick starter guide" for ambasadors

[Vincent Van der Kussen]

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 17:50 +0200, Ewan Luca wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Ewan Luca <ewanluca at gmail.com> wrote:
>         Tnx for the sugestions, Will try to integrate them. With this
>         done I think we can move on. Therefore I hope Tuesday or
>         Wednesday will be ready to ask for help regarding the
>         content. 
>         
>         
>         
>         On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Francesco Ugolini
>         <francesco at ephisia.org> wrote:
>                 2009/3/1 Ewan Luca <ewanluca at gmail.com>:
>                 
>                 > Tnx all for your feedback. If Francesco will take a
>                 look at the proposed
>                 > structure next week, we might have a definitive
>                 summary until Friday. Than
>                 > we can divide this in chapters to be distributed and
>                 completed by
>                 > volunteers. As I have some experience in publishing
>                 I'll try to make this
>                 > structure into some form of layout with just titles
>                 and blind text (lorem
>                 > ipsum). Than, when it's ready, we can start filling
>                 the content and with
>                 > some luck have the thing ready in 2 weeks or so.
>                 > So, if this plan works out, will be a call for
>                 "content providers" next
>                 > week.
>                 >
>                 > regards
>                 > Luca,
>                 > Fedora Ambassador,
>                 > www.opencurse.blogspot.com
>                 >
>                 
>                 
>                 I had an hour to read it carefull (and I confirm what
>                 I just said) and
>                 here are my suggestions, feel free to use this or not:
>                 
>                 1. rename those 2 chapters:
>                   Page 4-5
>                   Why become an Ambassador? (like in
>                 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors)
>                   Ambassadors in Numbers (700 Ambassadors, 200
>                 countries, 58 meetings
>                 last year etc)
>                 
>                 2. Change Page 10-11 structure in:
>                   Code of conduct (try to make it as simple as
>                 understandable, it's
>                 one of the crucial element)
>                   Activities: - Events
>                   I have a proposal what do I do?
>                   Communication: M-L and meetings (here put some info
>                 on mailing list
>                 and IRC channels along with the crucial functions of
>                 those ones)
>                 
>                 3.
>                  3.1 Somewhere I'll add few, really brief, line about
>                 FAmSCo (just to
>                 let new people know what are FAmSCo duties and why
>                 those are so
>                 important).
>                 
>                  3.2 Another crucial aspect is the regional division
>                 of Ambassadors
>                 resources: many time people ask, What are regional
>                 contacts? Who is my
>                 regional contact? What can I ask to him?
>                 
>                 ---
>                 
>                 I don't know if I explained my ideas.
>                 
>                 BTW, here are the element we have to really focus:
>                 Conduct, Events and Contacts.
>                 
>                 Regards
>                 
>                 Francesco Ugolini
>                 
>                 p.s. I wanted to give some suggestion, feel free, if
>                 you find these
>                 useful, to modify/change it.
>                 
>                 
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>         
>         
> 
> 1. I hate my life
> 2. I hate bottom posting (are you sure we can't change to top
> posting?)
> 3. It's been incredibly painful :D but I managed to get the first
> draft of the "Quick Guide" done. Here it is(*): 
> http://issuu.com/borchi24/docs/fedora_quickguide_v1
> 
> Now we need:
> - some comments
> - 2-3 people to take care of the content (write/select from wiki the
> apropriate text for each box)
> - pictures and stories for the 2 "case studies" (I also can buy the
> pictures from bigstock and write "fake" stories but...)
> - 1-2 people from "art" to help me with the layout
> - maybe some cross posting to the marketing / docs / art
> 
> Volunteers pls let us know you're interested and maybe we'll have an
> IRC meeting to set details. 
> 
> Best regards,
> Ewan Luca
> Fedoara Ambassador
> www.opencurse.blogspot.com
> 
> (*) PS I tried to send this mail earlier with attachments but I get an
> error "size to big". Hope this is not duplicate
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I'll try to find some free/open images for the "Case Studies".
Are you looking for something in particular?

VincentVDK