[Ambassadors] inactive ambassadors, a proposed solution
Foxhaund
foxhaund at gmail.com
Sun Feb 22 10:13:51 UTC 2009
Max, as for me: i have an account in FAS, i have a personal page in
Fedora-Wiki, but i write to the fedora-list very seldom, but i always
reading it.
Am i inactive?
I prefer to work with people to sitting in the mailing list and
discussing questions.
But, of course i agree with you.
19.02.2009, в 14:34, Max Spevack написал(а):
> The purpose of this email is to try to lay out a roadmap for
> solving, once and for all, the question of inactive Fedora
> Ambassadors.
>
> GOALS OF IDENTIFYING INACTIVE AMBASSADORS:
>
> (1) Housekeeping. All projects need to have their membership
> rosters pruned from time to time. In Ambassadors, this is
> particularly important because non-Fedora people might get in touch
> with Ambassadors, and if they don't receive a response, it looks
> like Fedora is ignorning them. Other sub-projects for which
> identifying inactive ambassadors are crucial is packaging. If
> someone drops off the face of the earth, their packages need to be
> given to a new owner.
>
> Pages that need to a "refresh" policy:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/CountryList <-- I argue
> that CountryList is the wrong name for this page, and it should be
> called Directory.
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/MembershipService/Verification
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Count <-- why do we even
> need this page? Doesn't the CountryList page serve the same purpose?
>
> How often are these pages currently updated? Is the process manual
> or automated, or a mixture of both?
>
>
> (2) Give a more prominent location to the "list of ambassadors per
> country". That page should be the most visited page in all of
> Fedora Ambassadors. People who are trying to find out about Fedora
> should be visiting it, and Ambassadors who are looking for other
> Fedora folks near them should be visiting it.
>
> We should have something on fedoraproject.org that says "are you
> interested in Fedora? Find a Fedora Ambassador near you to give you
> some information" and you type in your location, and it spits back a
> list of Ambassadors near you.
>
>
> (3) In order for any of (2) to be successful, we need to make sure
> that the people who are listed as Ambassadors are actually paying
> attention to the Ambassadors part of Fedora. If someone is not, it
> doesn't mean that they are a bad person -- it just means that they
> don't want to have to deal with organizing events or asking
> questions from newbies to the project.
>
> I wouldn't be offended if someone removed me from the Fedora
> Infrastructure group in FAS, because *I DON'T DO ANYTHING WITH
> FEDORA INFRASTRUCTURE*. It doesn't mean I'm a bad person or not a
> Fedora contributor, it just means that I don't participate in that
> part of Fedora.
>
>
> HOW DO WE IDENTIFY ACTIVE AMBASSADORS?
>
> We come up with a policy that is simple, and fair.
>
> An active ambassador is someone who:
>
> 1) Has joined the group in FAS.
> 2) Reads and/or posts on fedora-ambassadors-list.
> 3) Has a useful, up-to-date personal page on the Fedora wiki.
>
> And does one or more of:
>
> * Attends or organizes an event once in a release cycle.
> * Maintains a blog on Planet Fedora, with about one post per month.
> * Participates on fedora-list or fedoraforum.org to help people w/
> questions.
> * Indicates their willingness to mentor and guide new contributors
> or new users.
>
>
> WHAT DO WE DO WITH INACTIVE AMBASSADORS?
>
> If someone is inactive, we *DO NOT* kick them out of the ambassadors
> group in FAS, and we *DO NOT* remove them from fedora-ambassadors
> list.
>
> But we should remove them from the "directory of Ambassadors sorted
> by country", which I argue again needs to be much more visible and
> useful, so that those inactive Ambassadors aren't being asked to do
> public-facing things.
>
> When someone re-surfaces or has more time for Ambassadors, we put
> them back on the directory.
>
> ==================
>
> Flame me.
>
> --Max
>
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