On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Clint Savage <herlo1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
To start with, I've seen the discussion of Active and Inactive
Ambassadors be brought up (by me and others) only to be shut down by
some who would wish to discourage alienating other Ambassadors who are
doing good works. But I always thought there were ways to identify
those who were driving ambassadorship in Fedora, the methods we used
were archaic and incomplete. In this case, while I don't believe it
will ever be perfect, I think we're getting very close to a good
system that can improve the quality of the Fedora Ambassadors. I also
believe that the quantity will not slow too much, but rather more
people will be interested because they will gain valuable skills now
as an Ambassador.
The big problem of the active/inactive ambassadors was that it
underlined a deep vision of that issue.
From this perspective what Max summarized wanted to underline that we
want to solve a big lack in our commuity starting from another point
of view, understanding what community really need.
Raising the barrier some is good and that's why mentoring will be
a
very important part of this barrier. So far, I've seen some great
suggestions for how to do that, and I agree with the basic sentiment
of a sponsor. Essentially, every other FAS group has one, we should
too. The sponsor is the mentor, the person who makes sure that the
new ambassadors understands the issues and drives the sponsorship
based upon some specific milestones as well as a few loose guidelines.
My theory is somewhat similar to the one provided by David and
others, we should sponsor new members who have proven themselves and I
think that's really important.
Sure. Raising the barrier doesn't mean block the gowth of Ambassadors:
the main goal is to make Ambassadors working giving community (the
World) the best "service" we can give, helping spreading open source
and finding new contributors.
I know my examples are weak, and that probably encouraging
ambassadors
into another group of their interest would be key elements of
mentoring/sponsorship, but at some point we need to set those limits.
I just think they don't have to be a set list, but rather an agreed
upon set of promises between the prospective ambassador and the
mentor/sponsor.
Sure, that's why this discussion was opened to the community and why
we wanted people know what we are discussing about: people have to
understand that we don't want to block community growth, but just
manage a really big community with tools that could really improve
their experience.
I'm sure Ambassadors could agree on this set of proposals David done,
in order to achive this goal we must be sure the processes proposed
are clear.
Regards
Francesco Ugolini