On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Justin O'Brien <three(a)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