[Ambassadors] Poll ?? No!!

[Rahul Sundaram]

Patrick W. Barnes wrote:

> I believe his point is that, at present, anyone on this mailing list is 
> supposed to have completed the CLA.

Supposed to, yes. In reality, there are many people who have not.

   The marketing list doesn't have that
> requirement, so merging them would make it more difficult to keep track of 
> what list members have what privileges and status. 

It is pretty trivial to query the cla_done group via 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/AccountSystem/QueryAccount 
if you are uploading or redistribution content but members should always 
  upload it themselves and all redistribution should have proper 
licensing  anyway.

  Sometimes there will be
> discussions where the subject matter applies only to contributors that have 
> completed the CLA.   Those discussions would become considerably more complex,
> and any measure of propriety would be lost.  

It seems we are just speculating here. I doubt any *discussions* should 
be based on CLA requirements. Content is the only that matter for the CLA.

Also, anything delivered through
> the mailing list that we would want to use elsewhere would have to be checked 
> for an applicable CLA.  

  .. which is one of the reasons we always encourage people to upload 
content themselves. Since if they have edit access to the wiki, they 
already signed the CLA.

We should avoid the club mentality. Ambassadors was born as a sub 
project for marketing and came out from the idea of community marketing 
contacts. "Marketing" is not a dirty word even in the world of Free 
software and has considerable effects as already proven by groups like 
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/. Going direct is pretty important for us. 
Increasing and concentrating the efforts as a group is a first step for 
that.  We already have many discussions copied into both lists because 
folks dont know whether they need to limit it one list among these two. 
That is a pretty good sign that we need to converge. Lets stop the 
proliferations of projects and mailing lists.

Rahul