[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Concentration of Ambassadors

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

I'm far more concerned about not having enough ambassadors in each region, 
to be honest.

For instance: India has, what, a billion people?  And Brazil is how large?

If our goal is saturation, then we're going to need more than two people 
per billion to accomplish that goal.

Now I will agree that, going forward, we need to be increasingly clear 
about the specific responsibilities of Ambassadors.  But so long as the 
Ambassadors are all communicating openly with one another, on this list, 
then "too many Ambassadors" is a good problem to have.

--g

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On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Patrick Barnes wrote:

> We need to establish a clear policy now with regard to how many
> Ambassadors we want in each region.  The original aim of the CMC program
> was to have one contact in each nation, with two in the larger nations. 
> We now have more than this listed in some places.  I have no objections
> to allowing Ambassadors to have assistants, but we need to, IMHO, keep
> the window between the Fedora Project and Ambassadors relatively
> narrow.  What we need is a policy that states what kind of concentration
> we want for Ambassadors and how we handle pruning of inactive or deviant
> Ambassadors to make room for more active and reliable volunteers.  If we
> want to establish a process to assist Ambassadors in enlisting helpers,
> I think that would be great.  The very idea of an ambassador in other
> contexts is to provide a single, key point-of-contact between two
> entities.  Ambassadors act as the diplomatic leads, providing the
> gateway between nations and mediating the relationship.  They will
> always have people assisting them in their goals, but the ambassador
> themselves has no competing equivalent.  I think that having two
> Ambassadors per nation would be wise, but not the four or more we
> already have listed for some nations.  If we need to introduce some kind
> of 'embassy' to help Ambassadors coordinate between each other and with
> other help, we can do that, but we should avoid going crazy introducing
> new Ambassadors.  Opinions?
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> Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes
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