[Ambassadors] mentorship, sponsorship, etc.

[Jason Benedict]

Ewan Luca wrote:
>
>             sorry if i don't understand about this big fuss of
>             "Ambassador" ? I see for years Fedora is running better
>             and better not only the Fedora Core OS but as the whole in
>             community.
>
>
>         + 1
>
>     +1 from me too
>
>
>  
> -10e1000
> So, with this, problem solved. Everything it's "just fine". Despite 
> the fact this is the longest thread I saw until now on this mailing 
> list (apart from the useless "me too").
> If we can't agree on a solution to the problem it doesn't mean the 
> problem isn't there! Let's just stick out heads on the sand. "Fedora 
> it's going great!" There is no such thing of Ubuntu (it seems to be 
> tabu to talk about this), there is no such thing as 40% of the 
> registered ambassadors (this is almost 1 in 2 of them!) inactive. The 
> activity of the rest of them consists mainly on asking in vain "what 
> can I do?". I'm sorry but it doesn't seems to me that things are ok at 
> all.
> We have every week a few new ambassadors registred. This is really a 
> good thing. But how many of them will end up being real contributors? 
> If we continue like this, we'll have next year 2000 ambassadors (wich 
> looks great on paper) and the next survey will prove that 90% of them 
> are inactive. We might as well create 10000 fictive accounts on Fedora 
> ambassadors list and be proud of our "strenght".
> I whant to know that this thread will be closed in N days and the 
> decisions are XYand Z. Whatever decisions will come up it will be 
> better that ignoring the problem.
You have your point. Ignore this issue is not a solution. That is where 
and why i mentioned Fedora can try this for a start:-
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What Fedora can do is just trigger email to the Ambassadors, those 
responded, classified them as Active Ambassadors and make them listed in 
Fedora Ambassadors page so to like others to contact them. For those 
whom do not reply with in a month, KIV them to Ambassador KIV group, 
make them hidden to End User but not Ambassasors, but purge them off 
after half year of no reply.
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Then improve it along the way, rather then keep going on in the mailing 
list and no action per say. India had did a good job on start the 
mailing list out to all ambassadors in India to screen for active and 
inactive ambassadors. So, may be Fedora Ambassadors steering committee, 
Susmit, as a mentor for the APAC region can assist in getting it done 
like wise in India ?And in  Region EMEA, they got "2. Ambassadors 
Membership Verification (Joerg)" may be APAC can learn from them, Just 
another 2cts worth.

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Best Regards,
Jason
Singapore Fedora Ambassador
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Jason_Benedict_Low
VoIP = sip:jasonbenedict at fedoraproject.org
------ When i work nobody care. When i rest everybody stare. ------

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