[Ambassadors] inactive ambassadors, a proposed solution

[Ashiqur Rahman Angel]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Max Spevack <mspevack at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

+1


> 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
>
>
But what do we do with inactive Ambassadors, who are inactive from a long
time? Are they Ambassadors for ever??!!


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Angel
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