[Ambassadors] What's really needed to be an Ambassador?

[Henrik Nordström]

tis 2010-12-14 klockan 07:06 -0800 skrev Larry Cafiero:

> This is an interesting list and I have no objection to any of them,
> although if you have an ambassador in a country where there is no FOSS
> event, or no FOSS event in their region (I'm specifically thinking
> Africa here), I think number 3 is asking much for some who may want to
> promote Fedora/Linux/FOSS but is not able to travel to an event.

In FOSS events I would also include local community events. It does not
need to be big and well recognised to count. It's great even if just two
interested people come. Sometimes that's even better than many hundreds
at a large FOSS event as the large events often attracts the already
FOSS converted where the ones we really need to reach is the ones not
using FOSS today.

> What I do want to say is that nearly all ambassadors promote Fedora,
> Linux and FOSS at their own comfort level and very few, if any, join
> with malicious intent.

I would think so as well.

I also think the current process is pretty effective in filtering out
the unwanted candidates.

I think the underlying question asked here is really how much activity
is minimally expected from an ambassador to be considered an ambassador?

Which makes me raise the question if it's a bad thing there is some
ambassadors which never acheives something visibly significant?

If that's bad for some reason then perhaps a followup process is needed
where ambassadors annually report back that
  * They are still using Fedora
  * They still consider themselves Ambassadors for Fedora
  * What activities they have participated in if any (no requirement)

kindly reminding people to resign as ambassadors if they do not see
themselves as ambassadors.

For me the most important criteria for being an Fedora Ambassador is
mindset and willingness, not actual acheivements.

Regards
Henrik