[Ambassadors] Being Ambassadors *within* the Fedora Project

[inode0]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Justin O'Brien <three at threethirty.us> wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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?

Any time today works, folks will be in #fedora-test-day to help with anything.

I took part this morning and while I had great results (4/4 tests
passed, 1 didn't apply to my test systems) I learned some useful
things about tools I hadn't previously used. If my first taste of
Fedora Test Days is any indication of things to come I expect to
actually get some useful experience with features I don't use by
participating. So a win for me too.

John