On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:31 AM, inode0 inode0@gmail.com wrote:
<My question, which wasn't clear enough, was about how to deal
with ambassadors listed on our wiki who won't even respond to other ambassadors who contact them? It seems quite a few of us view this as a problem that can only get worse and it is important that when someone seeks out an ambassador for help or guidance on the wiki that they find someone willing and eager to provide assistance.
The goals between Membership and Mentoring initiative is to help solving this lack, working with new Ambassadors and create a direct relation between the Project and the new members.
While I know you have worked on similar questions in the past it might be time to revisit those in this one confined area. Without necessarily considering ambassador group membership, can we find a way to make the wiki's list of ambassadors a more useful and effective way for the public and Fedora community members to contact ambassadors for whatever reason? Some great ideas are popping up about this now.
John
Great question. This is a quite complicate issue, we have first of all to consider what could be public and what couldn't be.
If you take a look at Privacy policy (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/PrivacyPolicy), this is the possible usage of personal informations:
| Fedora uses the personal information you provide to: | | * create and maintain your accounts; | * answer your questions; | * send you information; | * for research activities, including the production of statistical reports (such aggregated information is not used to contact the subjects of the report); | * send you surveys.
I'm not a lawyer, but I could assume that if something is not present in the list, couldn't be done without the consent of the user.
So having a only, public space with people information (without asking people to do this volunteer) isn't simple as it could be.
I want to underline that what I'm saying isn't a professional advice, just some consideration on a legal paper. Suggestions are welcome.
Regards
Francesco Ugolini