[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Ambassador's Purpose

Robert 'Bob' Jensen marketing-list at fedoralinks.org
Fri Mar 10 04:35:13 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 22:49 -0500, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> My comments inline.
> 
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Robert 'Bob' Jensen wrote:
> 
> > After 4 months in the ambassador project I have several questions and
> > also some opinions. I will answer my own questions so you know where I
> > am coming from.
> > 
> > Why are we ambassadors? 
> > 
> > I am an ambassador so I can better present Fedora to groups of people
> > through Slides and structured content.
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Perhaps this is a problem with how we structure the meetings.  It's an 
> hour of "talking about upcoming events" and sometimes not much else.  I 
> think this is largely a problem of scalability.
> 
> > 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. 
> 
> I agree.
> 
> > What should the ambassadors project and list focus on?
> > 
> > They should focus on supporting Ambassadors and events no matter how
> > small. 
> 
> I strongly agree.  This was the initial charter for the Ambassadors
> project.
> 
> > Where did the Ambassadors project come from?
> > 
> > For more information on this you will have to look at the Oct 2005
> > archives of the marketing list.
> >
> > What happened to the Marketing project?
> > 
> > It would seem that leadership lost focus, the Ambassadors project was
> > created from this lack of focus as a subproject and the general
> > marketing project was allowed to die. 
> 
> The Ambassadors project is strongly focused on clear action: get people in
> front of other people to talk about Fedora, with the tools required to
> do so intelligently.
> 
> > Why is the Ambassadors list private?
> > 
> > The Ambassadors list was made private as I remember to prevent people
> > from signing up just to get free stuff and promo items.
> 
> Do we need to revisit this?  I honestly don't even remember if the 
> archives are public or private.
> 
> > What can we do to make things better?
> > 
> > I think we need to re-ignite the Marketing project as the driving force
> > of Fedora Marketing. Bring Marketing Tasks back in to the Public view,
> > part of this will be to Focus the Ambassadors project on supporting
> > Ambassadors in getting to events and related items including giveaway
> > "stuff" and keep Marketing in the marketing list. 
> 
> There's a natural bleed-over, and because I'm on both lists, I don't even 
> notice when that bleed-over has occured.
> 
> Marketing is a good place for generating ideas.  The still-open question: 
> is it a good place for generating action?  Not without strong leadership.  
> Possibly even fairly autocratic leadership.
> 
> The problem with marketing is that "the right path" is usually not nearly 
> as clear as in engineering matters.
> 
> --g
> 
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I personally do not think this needs to change as long as we ask
Ambassadors to be members of the public marketing list and discuss
community items there.

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Robert 'Bob' Jensen <marketing-list at fedoralinks.org>
Fedora Marketing Projects
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