[Ambassadors] Active/Inactive Ambassadors

[David Nalley]

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> Two points here:
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> 1) The project is not a Teletubby fanclub, _if_ we make a point and vote
> and start kicking people out, they've been warned and apparently
> accepted they stay inactive and thus be kicked out; we shouldn't feel
> sorry; they shouldn't feel hurt

I agree wholeheartedly! However, there are a couple of problems The
first problem is, that to kick people out, we first need to 1) define
what levels of activity are acceptable 2) define what period of time we
are measuring activity 3) define what activity means (mailing list
posts, event attendance, activity reports, something else?) Now mind
you, whether to do it or not has been a topic of relatively hot debate,
if you gain consensus that it should be done, you then have to gain
consensus on what standards should exist, and what exceptions to have
and how it should be done. That's a lot of work, instead of putting so
much work into that, aren't there other things that progress the goals
of the Fedora Project more than trying to exclude people.

The second problem is that regardless of how they should react to a
reasonable action, human nature dictates that they will be hurt by the
actions.

> 
> 2) Egos bruised, strong argument, and although I'm all for anyone
> promoting any distro (the more free the better), it may be better to
> find a way to contact these sleepers and get them to no longer be inactive.

That would be a FAR better use of time than jumping through the hoops
outlined above to kick people out.

> I don't have any of such ideas, maybe someone else does?
> 
> BTW, there's a lot of discussion here, does everyone know the vote may
> be called in a meeting? Really, if you have a strong enough opinion to
> mail it to the mailing list, come in and vote during the meeting, or
> submit your vote to another ambassador that will attend (and sign the
> message with your GPG, so the other ambassador can show you submitted
> your vote to him/her).

Votes/polls taken tend to be non-binding around here anyway. Reference
the recent Marketing/Ambassador mailing list issues.

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