[Ambassadors] Ambassadors Meeting

[Tony Guntharp]

There are other ways that can reward more active ambassadors without  
alienating those that are working towards the same goals but are  
doing so behind the scene.

For example, on several social networking sites that I've assisted in  
development we award user points for users that contribute user  
generated content. A uploaded video file might be worth 5 points, a  
wiki-entry might be worth 3, etc etc. At certain point totals a user  
gets a title awarded to him befitting his accomplishments. If a user  
registers for the site and doesn't contribute he doesn't get points  
awarded but on the other hand we don't delete him or mark him as  
inactive.

Digg works much the same way, anyone can register for Digg and  
contribute stories etc. But they don't take any action if you  
register and don't contribute.

This whole proposal of marking an Ambassador Active/Inactive reeks to  
me of punishment. That may not have been your intention but your own  
words make a strong case for this. Using terms like punitive action  
exemplifies this.

If you're really trying to give active Ambassadors credit then  
perhaps FAMSco should revisit http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ 
Ambassadors/Awards and hand out these recognition award more than  
twice in the past 12 months. Perhaps make this a quarterly award.

I'm guessing that due to the votes that were cast today (I was unable  
to attend and cast my vote unfortunately) that this is going to be a  
contested issue that is already drawing up lines and if we're not  
careful could damage the Ambassador Program in general.

I for one will gladly leave the program if this resolution passes in  
it's current form.

Thoughts?

-t
-- 
Tony Guntharp
Co-Founder SourceForge.net
fusion94 at gmail.com


On Apr 5, 2007, at 12:21 PM, Francesco Ugolini wrote:

> The proposal want to give active ambassador the recognition for this
> work, and the simplest way to award a work is to recognize what was
> done, in this sense, giving the status of active ambassador will grant
> them such recognition.
>
> The question i ask myself is: Why people who work are against this
> proposal? It's really a punitive action? Sincerely, I don't know. The
> idea behind my proposal want only to award working people, but it  
> seems
> not to be such.
>
> I think I've to reflect over this problem during this night, hoping
> someone will help me to solve this one.
>
> Regards
>
> Francesco Ugolini
>
> Greg Dekoenigsberg ha scritto:
>> On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Francesco Ugolini wrote:
>>
>>> For the first draft (we have two more weeks to discuss) the  
>>> results are:
>>>
>>> +1 = 7 votes
>>>
>>> -1 = 7 votes
>>>
>>> This vote say an important thing: we have to work more on this  
>>> proposal.
>>
>> A few thoughts.
>>
>> First: if it's not unanimous, we don't have the right idea.
>>
>> Second: focus on rewarding "active" participants, not penalizing
>> "passive" participants.
>>
>> Third: if you decide that an "award" is the right thing, we'd be  
>> willing
>> to fund it.
>>
>> --g
>>
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