I like the password change idea, with the caveat of instead of deleting the account after "X" amount of inactivity, we archive it.  Sometimes there are Amabassadors whom love Fedora but get wrapped up in the dealings of daily life that they don't have time or gumption to keep track of their Ambassador status.  However, that doesn't mean they wont ever return, and we shouldn't just get rid of their wiki, account, and other materials because they have gone inactive.

I am in the same boat, almost.  I love being an Ambassador and when I signed up, I had free time and could devote alot to Fedora.  Since then, I have decided to go back to college to earn my MBA (tough to do when you got your undergrad 8-10 years ago) and still work a full time career.  This leaves me with very little time to travel and devote to Fedora.  However, once I graduate I plan on becoming more active in Fedora again, and if my account had been deleted in my absence, I would be less motivated to sign back up.


On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:11 PM, <yn1v@taygon.com> wrote:
El 2014-02-27 08:33, Jiri Eischmann escribió:


The regular password change request is also a good idea. It actually
served the purpose quite well last time we used it because it cut off
ambassadors who didn't care about the project enough just to change
their passwords. And that's the kind of members we're aiming at with the
proposal. No one beyond that. No one shouldn't be removed and ideally
even nominated for removal because he/she hasn't organized enough
events, sent enough messages to mailing lists, participated in enough
IRC meetings.



I strongly agreed with this. This will not only impact on ambassadors, it will impact on the project as a whole. This will get rid of "Zombies".

I want to make an example. Someone does not read all the information regarding freemedia. He/she creates a FAS and applies for freemedia, fails to create his/her wiki page and it is not accepeted in the team. It may happen that does not accepted FCLA or that dropped because was to much hassle or even that found out that freemedia team can not ask for media for themselves. This leaves open a Fedora Account at FAS without any use.

Making mandatory to change password at least once a year with four automatic reminders before removing the account will take off all unused Fedora Account at FAS. Reminder can be scheduled like one 30 days before, one 15 days before, one 2 days before and the last one on the day before. This will close Ambassadors accounts who retired and did not said goodbye, among all other people. As this will not erase any wiki information, you may found historical references of the user. But it will not be listed on automatic pages generated from FAS info. Like ambassador list.

Change the numbers to fit preferences, change password every 17 months with 21 reminders or whatever.

Neville

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