[Ambassadors] Mentoring process

[Robert Mayr]

2012/10/15 Fabian Affolter <fab at fedoraproject.org>

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> Hi guys,
>
> I would like to give you a heads up about the discussion
> yesterday during the Ambassadors Barcamp session.
>
> We discussed two points extensively: Mentoring and level of activity
> (again). I will only cover the first point because the latter one we
> discussed in the past to death with no real solution.
>
> A couple of weeks ago Jörg (kital) Simon stepped back from FAMA
> (Fedora Ambassadors Membership Administration). Now Clint is in
> charge. This means that Clint is handling the administrative part.
>
> In EMEA we are missing mentors. This will be fixed soon. Right now we
> nominated four additional people to become mentors. Those people were
> not selected randomly, they agreed to do the mentoring.
>
> An other issue regarding the mentoring is the process. As far as I
> know people apply in FAS for the Ambassadors groups. This generates a
> mail to all sponsors of the ambassadors group and then a ticket in the
> FAMA trac instance is manually created. Then some foo (like suscribing
> to the mailing list, search a mentor, etc.) comes and at the end the
> person gets sponsored. After that this person is an ambassador.
> One idea is to do it similar to the Packager group. This means that
> people have to apply for their membership in the FAMA trac instance
> first (perhaps fill out a template or similar) instead of the Fedora
> Account System and the ambassadors groups become an "invite-only"
> group. Then the process starts and at the end they are added to the
> ambassadors group. I think that this will filter out all the people
> how just apply for any random group in FAS. The barrier to become an
> ambassador will not be elevated but people have to show some
> commitment first by filling out the trac ticket.
>
> If you want to add more details, other thoughts (please only about
> mentoring and its process), or if you have a ultimate solution for the
> mentoring please speak up. Thanks.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Fabian
>
Hi Fabian,
I'd like to add some practical reasons why I'm +1 for changing the
Amba-group to an invite-only group:

1) It's less work (and less email exchange) for the single mentor, who does
also other things in his life;
2) Filtering out random-applies protects from hit and run ambassadors, who
do only the applyoing procedure and then disappear;
3) New ambassadors have to do also "other stuff" for the FP;
4) The duration to become an active ambassador will shorten drastically.

So I think it would be a good decision. To do so we need to update also the
joining documentation, just as a note.

Bye
Robert

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Robert Mayr
(robyduck
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