[Ambassadors] Mentoring process

[Fabian Affolter]

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Hi guys,

I would like to give you a heads up about the discussion
yesterday during the Ambassadors Barcamp session.

We discussed two points extensively: Mentoring and level of activity
(again). I will only cover the first point because the latter one we
discussed in the past to death with no real solution.

A couple of weeks ago Jörg (kital) Simon stepped back from FAMA
(Fedora Ambassadors Membership Administration). Now Clint is in
charge. This means that Clint is handling the administrative part.

In EMEA we are missing mentors. This will be fixed soon. Right now we
nominated four additional people to become mentors. Those people were
not selected randomly, they agreed to do the mentoring.

An other issue regarding the mentoring is the process. As far as I
know people apply in FAS for the Ambassadors groups. This generates a
mail to all sponsors of the ambassadors group and then a ticket in the
FAMA trac instance is manually created. Then some foo (like suscribing
to the mailing list, search a mentor, etc.) comes and at the end the
person gets sponsored. After that this person is an ambassador.
One idea is to do it similar to the Packager group. This means that
people have to apply for their membership in the FAMA trac instance
first (perhaps fill out a template or similar) instead of the Fedora
Account System and the ambassadors groups become an "invite-only"
group. Then the process starts and at the end they are added to the
ambassadors group. I think that this will filter out all the people
how just apply for any random group in FAS. The barrier to become an
ambassador will not be elevated but people have to show some
commitment first by filling out the trac ticket.

If you want to add more details, other thoughts (please only about
mentoring and its process), or if you have a ultimate solution for the
mentoring please speak up. Thanks.

Kind regards,

Fabian
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