[Ambassadors] mentorship, sponsorship, etc.

[Scott McBrien]

On Mar 29, 2009, at 10:28 AM, Rangeen Basu <sherry151 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/3/29 Rachit Gupta <rachit.tech at gmail.com>:
>> Morpheus..we can start a forum where we can provide all the basic  
>> details
>> about how to start with fedora ambassador program..also how these new
>> ambassdor can contibute to foss.
>
> Easier said than done. Take the clue from Ambassador's Quick Starter
> Guide[1] (I am not accusing anyone here) project. And isn't the
> mailing list supposed to serve exactly the same purpose?
>
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Quick_guide
>
> Regards
> -- 
> Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury
> Fedora Ambassador
> sherry151 at gmail.com

Personally, I would like to see the Ambassadors mailing list _NOT_  
used to discuss the basic elements of contributing to an OSS project  
or discussion of basic ideas and philosohy of OSS in general.   
Currently I think it is used for these types of discussion, which is  
why we have hundreds of messages that say "me too" or "I'm here".   
That said, I think we can all agree that currently we do a poor job of  
orienting new ambassadors to steer them towards alternatives.  The  
regional Ambassadors list is more suited to answering new Ambassadors'  
questions as the people or processes tend to vary enough region to  
region.

I don't want to discourage participation in the community, but many of  
us agree that the noise to useful message ratio on ambassador-list is  
skewed towards noise.  It boils down to this:  Think about all the  
senior people in the community worldwide that read your email to  
ambassador-list, what impression do you want to make on them?  Does  
your email convey this impression?

Having access to the global Fedora community is a privlege, like all  
privleges, if it is abused, it will dissapear.

Many of us have ideas of what we'd like a new ambassador mentoring  
program to look like.  David (ke4qqq) has an email he sends to new  
North American ambassadors to welcome them.  I'll put it on a wiki  
page tonight along with the thoughts mentioned throughout this thread,  
I think that those things will likely be a good start for us to help  
orient new members joining our sub-community in Fedora. I'm travelling  
today, so if someone wants to take the initiative for creating the  
page, I wouldn't mind ;-)

-Scott