On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Scott McBrien <smcbrien(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mar 29, 2009, at 10:28 AM, Rangeen Basu <sherry151(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/3/29 Rachit Gupta <rachit.tech(a)gmail.com>:
>>
>> Morpheus..we can start a forum where we can provide all the basic details
>> about how to start with fedora ambassador program..also how these new
>> ambassdor can contibute to foss.
>
> Easier said than done. Take the clue from Ambassador's Quick Starter
> Guide[1] (I am not accusing anyone here) project. And isn't the
> mailing list supposed to serve exactly the same purpose?
>
> [1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Quick_guide
>
> Regards
> --
> Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury
> Fedora Ambassador
> sherry151(a)gmail.com
Personally, I would like to see the Ambassadors mailing list _NOT_ used to
discuss the basic elements of contributing to an OSS project or discussion
of basic ideas and philosohy of OSS in general. Currently I think it is
used for these types of discussion, which is why we have hundreds of
messages that say "me too" or "I'm here". That said, I think we
can all
agree that currently we do a poor job of orienting new ambassadors to steer
them towards alternatives. The regional Ambassadors list is more suited to
answering new Ambassadors' questions as the people or processes tend to vary
enough region to region.
I don't want to discourage participation in the community, but many of us
agree that the noise to useful message ratio on ambassador-list is skewed
towards noise. It boils down to this: Think about all the senior people in
the community worldwide that read your email to ambassador-list, what
impression do you want to make on them? Does your email convey this
impression?
Having access to the global Fedora community is a privlege, like all
privleges, if it is abused, it will dissapear.
Many of us have ideas of what we'd like a new ambassador mentoring program
to look like. David (ke4qqq) has an email he sends to new North American
ambassadors to welcome them. I'll put it on a wiki page tonight along with
the thoughts mentioned throughout this thread, I think that those things
will likely be a good start for us to help orient new members joining our
sub-community in Fedora. I'm travelling today, so if someone wants to take
the initiative for creating the page, I wouldn't mind ;-)
-Scott
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Interesting point Scott - we've long resisted having separate mailing
lists because we didn't want to fragment the community. That said -
the various regions are very different in many ways. Things that I can
do in the US might not work in EMEA, etc. Perhaps it's time to
reconsider this. I have to admit the noise is pretty high at times,
and I know a number of prominent people who heavily filter (via
procmail) this list.