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Yes sure, but this is a difficult issue to handle now.
We can't measure ambassador's activity
While we cannot measure the Ambassador activity in an automated manner, there are only
about 480 ambassadors listed in the verification service. I would expect that we could
query 40 of them per month via an automated process to just ask, "What did you do in
the last 12 months" so we can award a badge and know they are active. If we had each
region do their own work on this we could reduce the admin load even further.
I realize this is less than idea, however I have not seen any proposals for automated
reporting and this seems to be a consistent blocker.
We expect them to reply to requests, but some of them are active
maybe only 3 months a year. If you contact them in the other 9 months they might not reply
at all
If we believe this is happening with any regularity we simply must have a system of
knowing when people are active. They could, at a minimum update the vacation calendar
today as other teams ask.
We know, that from the 590 ambassadors listed as active, only 25% are
really active, and with really active I mean what you understand as active (contactable,
visible online, constant contributions in other groups etc)
I got 480 from the list at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/MembershipService/Verification - I've
included the 53 ambassadors who we don't know where they are in the world (and who
should really be asked to mark themselves with a location or we should change the heading
to note they help anyone anywhere). I did the math by hand, but am not sure I made an
error of this magnitude.
I don't have an answer right now, but for the future I would see
this as a country-specific topic. The process shoul look like:
Mindshare asks outreach teams and their local contributors to file a list of which
ambassadors are really around and active. Most of us know perfectly in our country, who
would reply to an email and who probably would never or very hard respond.
I am not sure who this would actually be directed too? This feels like an Ambassador
question that today would be resolved by the regions. Who does this in the future?
Marketing, for example, isn't really in a position to know which ambassasors are
active. I believe the same is true for Translation.
One of the priority things I would like to see is the ambassadors
map, rewritten with a KPL file or even with a json or whatever. I spoke to Hubs folks
during Flock and this could be done soon, but we need helping hands for that.
Do we have a project description? If this is longer we can possibly put it into the
outreachy program.
Also, is this KML?
With that list we can set ambassadors as actually not contactable or
something iike that, without the need to change anything in FAS.
How will this work? What is the process? This seems to be the data we need today and
have no way of gathering. I don't understand how changing the way a map is drawn
fixes this.
We don't have a contact process right now, so people try what
they find around. Once we have these tools, we can setup a contact page which can guide
people to follow the right process. WDYT?
I'd like to see this process sketched out so we can get an MVP out the door on this.
I'd rather release early and often on this than be blocked waiting on all the pieces.
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