I too support Rajesh and Casey. Regards Abhishek <div>On 11/6/06, Casey Jones <<a href="mailto:caseyjones@runbox.com">caseyjones@runbox.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Thank you Rajesh and Jeffrey and All for your support and encouragement. I will definitely continue to be a very vocal and "in-person" Ambassador for Fedora Core! Cheers! Casey ----- Start Original Message ----- Sent: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 00:03:40 +0545 From: "Rajesh Pandey" To: <a href="mailto:fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com">fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com </a> Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] taggin non active ambassadors on he wiki > I agree with *Casey *about the activeness. Though some of the > Ambassadors seem to be inactive in the meetings of fedora. In my case the > IRC meeting time is either early in the morning or in the evening while we > are away from home. How ever I remain uptodate with the threads and the > meeting logs. I believe other Ambassadors are also upto date about the > threads and about recent developments. Thus measuring the activeness of > fedora Ambassadors is a bit harder job and involves cross checking. In the > mean time by a wrong decision or a wrong comment by someone may be > disappointing to an interested and an active Ambassador. > > > On 11/5/06, Casey Jones wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > In regards to this current thread, I just had a quick comment. > > > > I haven't been very active in posting discussions to our email lists, but > > I have been very active in reading all the latest postings to the lists as > > they come in. Being one who has been a HUGE Fedora fan for years, and only > > more recently, a member of the Ambassadors, I often feel like my inputs > > would probably be better answered by someone more knowledgable. However, I > > do read almost all the threads in our lists. > > > > I am, however, a very vocal supporter of Fedora Core in my daily duties at > > work and elsewhere. In my line of work, a lot of my customers and > > co-workers have been exploring their non-Redmond options, and I am always > > very quick to encourage them to try Fedora Core. So, I feel my ambassador > > participation is more along the lines of being an interface to folks > > outside the community. I am hoping still to get to a point where I can be > > more actively involved in our email discussions and mailing list threads. > > > > As a side note, I am REALLY REALLY impressed with Core 6! This is one > > fantastic release! You guys have done an incredible job. A lot of the > > features that you have improved upon have motivated a lot of the folks I > > work with to try Fedora Core 6. I've been burning DVD's for them like > > crazy! > > > > Thanks so much and I hope my non-written, but verbal communications as an > > ambassador are valuable to the team! > > > > Sincerely, > > Casey Jones > > > > > > > > ----- Start Original Message ----- > > Sent: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:06:56 -0500 > > From: Jeffrey Tadlock > > To: <a href="mailto:fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com">fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com</a> > > Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] taggin non active ambassadors on he wiki > > > > > Guillermo Gómez S. wrote: > > > > As discussed in today meeting (irc), the point on discussion is: > > > > > > > > It hurts the project that some of the ambassadors publish their email > > > > address but do not respond to queries at all. > > > > My original proposal is to tag them somehow so the general public > > dont > > > > loose their time trying to contact them. > > > > > > I agree that ambassadors not responding to public queries is not a good > > > thing. I think a certain responsibility comes with working with the > > > ambassador group and this includes answering questions that come from > > > the public. If a person does not know the answer, then they should at > > > least do their best to acknowledge the question/comment and do what > > they > > > can redirect them to an appropriate resource. > > > > > > How to determine who the inactive ambassadors are could be a bit more > > > problematic. Today there are 178 ambassadors listed on the All > > > Ambassadors list in the wiki. What constitutes activity though? Does > > > active list participation count? How do we know who is responding to > > > questions asked of them - we can't really track that. > > > > > > I think Bob Jensen suggested a possible "roundup" is needed. One, to > > > see who we still have and two, to see if the program is meeting the > > > membership's needs. > > > > > > > People can be on vacation, but for how long? > > > > Is my opinion they should take care to advice the public on the wiki. > > > > > > I don't think you can put too many requirement on vacation length's, > > > busy times at work, etc. We are all volunteers, so each person should > > > only need to do what they have time to do to contribute as they can. I > > > *do* think though, that if something keeps you away from being able to > > > respond to requests that may come your way that we can ask people to > > > keep their personal wiki page up to date with that information. Stating > > > that they will be unavailable to make responses. > > > > > > --Jeffrey > > > > > > -- > > > 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> > > > > > > > ----- End Original Message ----- > > > > -- > > 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> > > > -- > 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> ----- End Original Message ----- -- 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>