[Ambassadors] Being Ambassadors *within* the Fedora Project

[Justin O'Brien]

On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 13:06 -0600, inode0 wrote:
> I've been giving some thought of late to how ambassadors focus their
> energy on promoting Fedora, both the distribution and the project. It
> seems to me we largely focus as a group on external promotion, getting
> new users to try Fedora and getting new contributors to participate in
> the Fedora Project. We also internally often come back to how
> important it is for ambassadors to be personally involved in the
> Fedora Project in some capacity outside the ambassador group to do
> especially the latter promotion effectively. Many ambassadors do
> actively participate in other parts of the project that interest them
> individually.
> 
> I would like to propose that as a group we adopt an internal project
> activity where we can make a positive impact on the Fedora Project
> right now. It would be nice for this activity to have a low barrier to
> entry, not require tons of an individual ambassador's time, and really
> make an impact on the quality those we promote Fedora the distribution
> to externally see.
> 
> With all that in mind, I am going to make a personal commitment and
> ask that you join me in participating in future Fedora Test Days.
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days
> 
> The schedule of upcoming Test Days in this release cycle is available here:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Fedora_13_test_days
> 
> As a group we could easily double or triple the level of participation
> seen currently in Test Days. In conjunction with our setting a good
> example by personally participating in Test Days, I think we should
> add promoting Test Days to others as one of our talking points,
> especially with new contributors.
> 
> John
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I'm down, is there a time of day when these things tend to kick off or
does everyone just saunter in at the leisure?