[Ambassadors] Active/Inactive Ambassadors

[Francesco Ugolini]

You can read my first messages to understand the reason of this proposal.

After all, my proposal won't kick off ambassadors, it want to encourage
ambassador to work, i want that the ambassadors community will rose more
and more.

As you know one of my keyword is COMMUNITY i believe it's the only way
to promote open source and to work all together, but a community is not
a place where the people doesn't do anything, is a place where people
make something to improve something else.

I hope all inactive ambassador will re-start to work, I've tried in the
past months to contact many of us, but it's not simple and many time
people don't reply to me.

Finally, I'm not talking about a punitive solution, I want to find a
solution to restore the community. It seems a pessimistic view, but if
we don't do anything we will risk to lost this one.

Regards

Francesco Ugolini

Tejas Dinkar ha scritto:
> On Mon, 02 Apr 2007, Francesco Ugolini sent out 2.5K bytes to say:
>> 1) When i used the word inactive I'm referring to people who doesn't
>> anything, and as I've said a lot of time is not the meeting absence that
>> make an ambassador inactive.
> 
> I think that, if we are bent n distinguishing between active and
> inactive definition. Perhaps on the wiki?
> 
> I will admit I may have missed it, but what EXACTLY is the point of
> flagging an Ambassador as inactive?
> 
> Are we planning to `kick` them off `the list`, so that they aren't going
> to steal top-secret um.... secrets?
> 
> The original post mentions that some ambassador did not reply when he
> was contacted. I agree that this is a problem. Rather than kicking those
> who don't respond out, how about another solution? LEt those who want to
> be contacted, have a little contact-me-for-help flag near their name.
> Thos ambassadors who DON'T have enough time to speak to Joe Random, but
> want to help us in other ways, like at events, write about fedora, promote 
> fedora to special groups (the govt, fedora in edu) don't really need to
> have a flag next to their name.
> 
> Even if there are a ton of ambassadors who are totally inactive, so
> what? We are here to BUILD A COMMUNITY. It's what brings projects
> together, not just open source ones. We aren't going to turn around to
> some other distro and say "so wtf if you have more
> users/packages/ambassadors than us, WE have more dedicated ambassadors!"
> 
> Some ambassadors don't really have enough time to be in _any_ of the
> meetings,  as they don't really have any opinion on any of those
> particular topics, and they don't plan on going to those events.
> 
> However, I'm sure that when the time comes for an event they _are_ going
> to, and a topic they _are_ interested in, they'll make time
> 
>> 2)Honored ambassador will not be an elite but a group of people who
>> distinguish themselves for their work. Is not the same thing that happen
>> in many company: people who work a lot received a recognition, this
>> recognition is the status of permanent ambassadors.
> 
> What happened to those ambassador awards anyway?
> 
> Getting presents in the mail sure made a lot of people feel good :D
> 
> Lets think positive, instead of trying to punish those who helped us
> once, and then decided to sit on the fence until something interesting
> comes along?
> 
> PS: Yes I know this post is rather hypocritial.

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