Hi All,
In regards to this current thread, I just had a quick comment.
I haven't been very active in posting discussions to our email lists, but I have been
very active in reading all the latest postings to the lists as they come in. Being one
who has been a HUGE Fedora fan for years, and only more recently, a member of the
Ambassadors, I often feel like my inputs would probably be better answered by someone more
knowledgable. However, I do read almost all the threads in our lists.
I am, however, a very vocal supporter of Fedora Core in my daily duties at work and
elsewhere. In my line of work, a lot of my customers and co-workers have been exploring
their non-Redmond options, and I am always very quick to encourage them to try Fedora
Core. So, I feel my ambassador participation is more along the lines of being an
interface to folks outside the community. I am hoping still to get to a point where I
can be more actively involved in our email discussions and mailing list threads.
As a side note, I am REALLY REALLY impressed with Core 6! This is one fantastic release!
You guys have done an incredible job. A lot of the features that you have improved upon
have motivated a lot of the folks I work with to try Fedora Core 6. I've been burning
DVD's for them like crazy!
Thanks so much and I hope my non-written, but verbal communications as an ambassador are
valuable to the team!
Sincerely,
Casey Jones
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Sent: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:06:56 -0500
From: Jeffrey Tadlock
To: fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] taggin non active ambassadors on he wiki
Guillermo Gómez S. wrote:
> As discussed in today meeting (irc), the point on discussion is:
>
> It hurts the project that some of the ambassadors publish their email
> address but do not respond to queries at all.
> My original proposal is to tag them somehow so the general public
dont
> loose their time trying to contact them.
I agree that ambassadors not responding to public queries is not a good
thing. I think a certain responsibility comes with working with the
ambassador group and this includes answering questions that come from
the public. If a person does not know the answer, then they should at
least do their best to acknowledge the question/comment and do what
they
can redirect them to an appropriate resource.
How to determine who the inactive ambassadors are could be a bit more
problematic. Today there are 178 ambassadors listed on the All
Ambassadors list in the wiki. What constitutes activity though? Does
active list participation count? How do we know who is responding to
questions asked of them - we can't really track that.
I think Bob Jensen suggested a possible "roundup" is needed. One, to
see who we still have and two, to see if the program is meeting the
membership's needs.
> People can be on vacation, but for how long?
> Is my opinion they should take care to advice the public on the wiki.
I don't think you can put too many requirement on vacation length's,
busy times at work, etc. We are all volunteers, so each person should
only need to do what they have time to do to contribute as they can. I
*do* think though, that if something keeps you away from being able to
respond to requests that may come your way that we can ask people to
keep their personal wiki page up to date with that information. Stating
that they will be unavailable to make responses.
--Jeffrey
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