I completely agree with Rahul <div>On 3/11/06, Rahul Sundaram <<a href="mailto:sundaram@fedoraproject.org">sundaram@fedoraproject.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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. > > That works fine. >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. > > Why do you feel so? We have been entertaining all sort of requests within the limitations of our funds. >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. > > > Yes, definitely but remember that there are many projects such as GNOME, <a href="http://openoffice.org">openoffice.org</a> that have their own private marketing lists. It is required for various things were incrementally working on something with public feedback isnt that effective. A press release for example. >What should the ambassadors project and list focus on? > >They should focus on supporting Ambassadors and events no matter how >small. > > We try to as a goal. We have to understand though that we wont be ever meeting it completely. >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. > > To have a regional focus and participate in events. To shrink and focus on specific aspects of marketing rather than losing track and discussing random things. >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. > > Allowed to die is misleading. There is nothing stopping people from doing things that needs to be done out there. I still send feedback on reviews on the marketing list regularly. >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. > > To stage initial promotional activities and make a better splash when we accomplish things. >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. > >I am sure more will come from me later, this will be plenty to talk >about for now. If anyone has the guts to that is. > > If we want to go ahead and continue marketing discussions on that list, I dont see any roadblocks on that. -- Rahul -- Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com">Fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list</a> </blockquote></div>