[Ambassadors] taggin non active ambassadors on he wiki

[Abhishek Singh]

I too support Rajesh and Casey.
Regards
Abhishek

On 11/6/06, Casey Jones <caseyjones at runbox.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you Rajesh and Jeffrey and All for your support and
> encouragement.  I will definitely continue to be a very vocal and
> "in-person" Ambassador for Fedora Core!
> Cheers!
>
> Casey
>
>
>
> ----- Start Original Message -----
> Sent: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 00:03:40 +0545
> From: "Rajesh Pandey"
> To: fedora-ambassadors-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] taggin non active ambassadors on he wiki
>
> > I agree with *Casey *about the activeness. Though some of the
> > Ambassadors seem to be inactive in the meetings of fedora. In my case
> the
> > IRC meeting time is either early in the morning or in the evening while
> we
> > are away from home. How ever I remain uptodate with the threads and the
> > meeting logs. I believe other Ambassadors are also upto date about the
> > threads and about recent developments. Thus measuring the activeness of
> > fedora Ambassadors is a bit harder job and involves cross checking. In
> the
> > mean time by a wrong decision or a wrong comment by someone may be
> > disappointing to an interested and an active Ambassador.
> >
> >
> > On 11/5/06, Casey Jones wrote:
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > In regards to this current thread, I just had a quick comment.
> > >
> > > I haven't been very active in posting discussions to our email lists,
> but
> > > I have been very active in reading all the latest postings to the
> lists as
> > > they come in. Being one who has been a HUGE Fedora fan for years, and
> only
> > > more recently, a member of the Ambassadors, I often feel like my
> inputs
> > > would probably be better answered by someone more knowledgable.
> However, I
> > > do read almost all the threads in our lists.
> > >
> > > I am, however, a very vocal supporter of Fedora Core in my daily
> duties at
> > > work and elsewhere. In my line of work, a lot of my customers and
> > > co-workers have been exploring their non-Redmond options, and I am
> always
> > > very quick to encourage them to try Fedora Core. So, I feel my
> ambassador
> > > participation is more along the lines of being an interface to folks
> > > outside the community. I am hoping still to get to a point where I
> can be
> > > more actively involved in our email discussions and mailing list
> threads.
> > >
> > > As a side note, I am REALLY REALLY impressed with Core 6! This is one
> > > fantastic release! You guys have done an incredible job. A lot of the
> > > features that you have improved upon have motivated a lot of the
> folks I
> > > work with to try Fedora Core 6. I've been burning DVD's for them like
> > > crazy!
> > >
> > > Thanks so much and I hope my non-written, but verbal communications
> as an
> > > ambassador are valuable to the team!
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > > Casey Jones
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Start Original Message -----
> > > Sent: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:06:56 -0500
> > > From: Jeffrey Tadlock
> > > To: fedora-ambassadors-list at redhat.com
> > > Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] taggin non active ambassadors on he wiki
> > >
> > > > Guillermo Gómez S. wrote:
> > > > > As discussed in today meeting (irc), the point on discussion is:
> > > > >
> > > > > It hurts the project that some of the ambassadors publish their
> email
> > > > > address but do not respond to queries at all.
> > > > > My original proposal is to tag them somehow so the general public
> > > dont
> > > > > loose their time trying to contact them.
> > > >
> > > > I agree that ambassadors not responding to public queries is not a
> good
> > > > thing. I think a certain responsibility comes with working with the
> > > > ambassador group and this includes answering questions that come
> from
> > > > the public. If a person does not know the answer, then they should
> at
> > > > least do their best to acknowledge the question/comment and do what
> > > they
> > > > can redirect them to an appropriate resource.
> > > >
> > > > How to determine who the inactive ambassadors are could be a bit
> more
> > > > problematic. Today there are 178 ambassadors listed on the All
> > > > Ambassadors list in the wiki. What constitutes activity though?
> Does
> > > > active list participation count? How do we know who is responding
> to
> > > > questions asked of them - we can't really track that.
> > > >
> > > > I think Bob Jensen suggested a possible "roundup" is needed. One,
> to
> > > > see who we still have and two, to see if the program is meeting the
> > > > membership's needs.
> > > >
> > > > > People can be on vacation, but for how long?
> > > > > Is my opinion they should take care to advice the public on the
> wiki.
> > > >
> > > > I don't think you can put too many requirement on vacation
> length's,
> > > > busy times at work, etc. We are all volunteers, so each person
> should
> > > > only need to do what they have time to do to contribute as they
> can. I
> > > > *do* think though, that if something keeps you away from being able
> to
> > > > respond to requests that may come your way that we can ask people
> to
> > > > keep their personal wiki page up to date with that information.
> Stating
> > > > that they will be unavailable to make responses.
> > > >
> > > > --Jeffrey
> > > >
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