[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Ambassador's Purpose

Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay sankarshan.mukhopadhyay at gmail.com
Fri Mar 10 03:44:14 UTC 2006


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Hi,

I might reply to this original mail in parts, taking something that
struck me first up.

Robert 'Bob' Jensen wrote:
> Do small events count?
> 
> I do not think our current format lends itself to discussing general
> ideas of bringing Fedora to the masses. I get the feeling that our
> leadership is of the opinion that large high profile events are the ones
> that count. Everything else is just filler.

I am tempted to answer to this as depends :) There is a reason to this.
A first hand experience with FUDConDelhi2006 proves that it is necessary
to make a splash. However, the fun bit was that the splash has started
off a chain of smaller events where at least someone is talking about
Fedora or holding a BoF. Bigger events sometimes have a distinctly
different agenda from the core Fedora desirables but they do get the
project more eyeballs. Smaller ones (half day/3 hours) allow us to
spread love evenly and sure they do count.

> Should ambassadors be members of the marketing list?
> 
> I think they should. Many ideas that have been posted to the PRIVATE
> Ambassadors list should have been posted to the PUBLIC Marketing list
> for greater input. 

Taking a leaf from OpenOffice.org - the MarCons (Marketing Contacts)
*are* regional Ambassadors (though never explicitly stated) and
participate in somewhat extent in strategy sessions and directions.
Ambassadors should be part of Marketing List but not vice-versa. The
Ambassador role is a smaller focussed subset of the Marketing Role.


Warm regards
Sankarshan

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You see things; and you say 'Why?';
But I dream things that never were;
and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw
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