[Ambassadors] inactive ambassadors, a proposed solution

[Ewan Luca]

I understand the fear of being too strict about what an ambassador job
description should be. I'm afraid that, without such a job description the
problem will not go away. A new ambassador (like me for ex) it's left
wondering about Fedora wiki and IRC channels without a clue what to do,
ending posting where it's not supposed to and generally being in the way.
Fedora wiki and all the community materials are a lot to be taken in by a
new contributor, and without a mentors program implemented it's even harder.
I liked the steps implemented for joining. I had 3 clear task to complete. I
think this tipe of clear assignments are needed and we can discuss exception
later.
I'll also feel the need for "Quick starter guide" - a 10-20 slide/pages
presentation of the comunity structure and resources. If there is such a
thing I didn't find it yet and maybe it should be one of the steps for
joining "Step 4 - Read this"

2009/3/1 Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com>

>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 08:26:06AM -0600, inode0 wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:34 AM, 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.
> >
> > Perhaps I'm thinking about this problem in a more surgical way.
> > Ambassadors contribute in so many different ways that I don't even
> > feel comfortable thinking I can enumerate them and so I prefer to not
> > label an ambassador inactive because they don't contribute in the ways
> > I can enumerate.
>
> [snip good points]
>
> I also am concerned about labeling and requirements and narrow values
> of what is and isn't an Ambassador.  There have to be better ways to
> ensure that people are contacted promptly.
>
> One way is to have people add themselves to contact lists.  For
> example, I could just put on my own [[User:Quaid]] page a tag
> [[Category:Contact me as an Ambassador]] (or something).  When I'm no
> longer interested in being contact, I remove that tag from my page.
>
> Just be sure to put a note on the page
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Contact_me_as_an_Ambassador
> that says to please contact someone else if you haven't heard back
> within X days.
>
> - Karsten
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