<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foss.mailinglists@gmail.com">foss.mailinglists@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2009/2/20 Kevin Higgins <<a href="mailto:crossbytes@gmail.com">crossbytes@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
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> Every Computer System that we put out into the Schools has Fedora Installed<br>
> and I have to do a presentation at every School several times over.. but I<br>
> would not consider these "Events" ..so based on the above requirements I<br>
> would be considered a non-active Ambassador..and I do think that I am very<br>
> active and contributing a lot to the Open Source Community and in Particular<br>
> Fedora..<br>
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</div>Let's ask a simple question - do schools and folks in your region who<br>
want to know/learn_about/install Fedora *know* that you are the Fedora<br>
Ambassador ? And, if they want to get some activity going around<br>
Fedora they can contact you and get<br>
support/help/guidance/participation ?<br>
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>From what I read in your response, the answer is a 'Yes'. And, for me<br>
that is an Ambassador.<br>
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Now, let's take the other point-of-view. A person who is a Fedora<br>
Ambassador has the name listed on the web-page. Someone in the region<br>
wants this Ambassador to help out in some Fedora/FOSS related event<br>
and yet receives no response. This could be because of a number of<br>
reasons, but the bottom-line remains the same. The potential<br>
participant in the Fedora Project goes back disappointed.<br>
<br>
As the project grows and, we have more Ambassadors, such cases have a<br>
tendency to increase. A mail asking the Ambassadors about what they<br>
have been doing or, what help they need is a way of figuring how<br>
active they are. Just as on IRC, a 'ping' followed by a 'pong'<br>
encourages conversation, it does so in real life. We need to see the<br>
'pong' (s) because we then know whom to point new entrants to.<br>
<br>
A Fedora Ambassador is an Ambassador for life unless they cause<br>
immense harm to the Fedora principles, foundations and our general way<br>
of collaboration. No one is planning to throw them off the boat, we<br>
would rather give them space to allow them to come back into their<br>
role once their 'daily life' (or, whatever keeps them away) is set.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>We should automate listing of ambassador name in the country directory as soon as he joins as ambassador ( of course after approval), when a person requests to join Fedora Ambassador program he should create the personal wiki through a form then and there so that the ambassador who is approving the request can check that.<br>
<br> Every country should have a central group of ambassadors consists of a ambassador from each region of the country who will be mentoring new ambassador from that region . I think this will diminish the number of inactive ambassadors in a region .<br>
<br><br>Shambo Bose <br>