Hi,
Pin-pon-ing email specific cases will not solve the problem, and are out of
the scope of this conversation. I think the idea, if the ambassador title
is meant to be kept in the Fedora Project, is to highligh where problems
are found to solve them, by re-engaging or by replacing the process with a
new one.
I see 2 parts here, as we all saw in Mindshare:
- Current ambassadors wanting to be recognized, having problems on
recognize what "active" means and what they can do to log this
"activity".
- Newcommers wanting to became ambassadors having problems to find
sponsorship/mentorship.
Both problems, from my perspective, can be solve by having a very well,
direct to the point, defined "Active Ambassador Policy". This document need
to be clear about how to measure this "activity", if this means that each
ambassador needs to send a "I'm here" mail, so be it; if it means connect
to an IRC channel, or attend a meeting, or whatever it needs to do, just do
it. The problem comes when you (any of us) says: "I'm active" and then
there is no place to look for activity:
- Mailing list
- IRC meetings
- FAS Activity
There needs to be something we can do to count that we are working. And
here I have to talk about "us", because I consider myself still an
Ambassador, my work is mostly off-line as ambassador: my region drops
meetings, my region ML it's practically inactive; I have no practical ways
to log or register work as ambassador. Maybe, and just maybe issues
requesting funding, but as some of you highlight here, not all the activity
requires funding.
Maybe, I think we can register all activity in a Pagure repo, as an issue,
that can be opened when the activity is planned and closed when is
complete, even if that activity doesn't require funding. That's an idea,
and I will love to hear yours. Not discussions about "you did, I did, you
didn't, I didn't"; just ideas on how we can measure an ambassador activity.
I agreed that you can't register or log every call, every meeting, every
email you sent to host, create, organize or participate in an event, but
the event itself need to be logged.
I hope we can redirect this email to the right way.
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Eduard Lucena
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