<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <<a href="mailto:foss.mailinglists@gmail.com">foss.mailinglists@gmail.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;"> 2009/2/20 Kevin Higgins <<a href="mailto:crossbytes@gmail.com">crossbytes@gmail.com</a>>: <div class="Ih2E3d"> > Every Computer System that we put out into the Schools has Fedora Installed > and I have to do a presentation at every School several times over.. but I > would not consider these "Events" ..so based on the above requirements I > would be considered a non-active Ambassador..and I do think that I am very > active and contributing a lot to the Open Source Community and in Particular > Fedora.. </div>Let's ask a simple question - do schools and folks in your region who want to know/learn_about/install Fedora *know* that you are the Fedora Ambassador ? And, if they want to get some activity going around Fedora they can contact you and get support/help/guidance/participation ? >From what I read in your response, the answer is a 'Yes'. And, for me that is an Ambassador. Now, let's take the other point-of-view. A person who is a Fedora Ambassador has the name listed on the web-page. Someone in the region wants this Ambassador to help out in some Fedora/FOSS related event and yet receives no response. This could be because of a number of reasons, but the bottom-line remains the same. The potential participant in the Fedora Project goes back disappointed. As the project grows and, we have more Ambassadors, such cases have a tendency to increase. A mail asking the Ambassadors about what they have been doing or, what help they need is a way of figuring how active they are. Just as on IRC, a 'ping' followed by a 'pong' encourages conversation, it does so in real life. We need to see the 'pong' (s) because we then know whom to point new entrants to. A Fedora Ambassador is an Ambassador for life unless they cause immense harm to the Fedora principles, foundations and our general way of collaboration. No one is planning to throw them off the boat, we would rather give them space to allow them to come back into their role once their 'daily life' (or, whatever keeps them away) is set. -- <a href="http://www.gutenberg.net" target="_blank">http://www.gutenberg.net</a> - Fine literature digitally re-published <a href="http://www.plos.org" target="_blank">http://www.plos.org</a> - Public Library of Science <a href="http://www.creativecommons.org" target="_blank">http://www.creativecommons.org</a> - Flexible copyright for creative work <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> -- 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" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> We should automate listing of ambassador name in the country directory as soon as he joins as ambassador ( of course after approval), when a person requests to join Fedora Ambassador program he should create the personal wiki through a form then and there so that the ambassador who is approving the request can check that. Every country should have a central group of ambassadors consists of a ambassador from each region of the country who will be mentoring new ambassador from that region . I think this will diminish the number of inactive ambassadors in a region . Shambo Bose