RE: Weekly Reminder for Fedora Ambassadors
Due to Red Hat Summit 2006 (May 30 - June 2), most of our Red Hat people and Fedora Contributors will be on travel and we will not have Ambassadors meeting tomorrow.
Therefore, our next Ambassadors Meeting will be held on 2006-06-08 14:00 UTC http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings
Also as a reminder everyone in Fedora Ambassadors Program should sign CLA and join 'ambassadors' group in your Fedora Account System. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/AccountSystemHowTo
As of today, we have 124 members in fedora-ambassadors-list but only 80 completed CLA and joined Ambassadors group officially.
Regards,
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 11:37 -0700, Thomas Chung wrote:
RE: Weekly Reminder for Fedora Ambassadors
Due to Red Hat Summit 2006 (May 30 - June 2), most of our Red Hat people and Fedora Contributors will be on travel and we will not have Ambassadors meeting tomorrow.
Therefore, our next Ambassadors Meeting will be held on 2006-06-08 14:00 UTC http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings
Also as a reminder everyone in Fedora Ambassadors Program should sign CLA and join 'ambassadors' group in your Fedora Account System. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/AccountSystemHowTo
As of today, we have 124 members in fedora-ambassadors-list but only 80 completed CLA and joined Ambassadors group officially.
Has sending this reminders been effective so far? I suspect some of them dont speak English. Alteast I havent seen any correspondence at all from them in the mailing lists or participation on IRC meetings.
If its been effective, then well and good. Otherwise individual reminders might work better. If they dont speak English (which I hope isnt the case), we need to bridge that.
Rahul
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Has sending this reminders been effective so far? I suspect some of them dont speak English. Alteast I havent seen any correspondence at all from them in the mailing lists or participation on IRC meetings.
If its been effective, then well and good. Otherwise individual reminders might work better. If they dont speak English (which I hope isnt the case), we need to bridge that.
Rahul
I am hoping to start trying to make some 1 on 1 contacts starting next week with those who have not yet completed the required steps. I am also looking to find out some things that ambassadors are looking for from the project. I would really like to try and get some ideas flowing with in marketing as a whole if I can.
What's the procedure if you find Ambassadors that doesn't speak English?
Rodrigo Menezes
Robert 'Bob' Jensen marketing-list@fedoralinks.org escreveu: Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Has sending this reminders been effective so far? I suspect some of them dont speak English. Alteast I havent seen any correspondence at all from them in the mailing lists or participation on IRC meetings.
If its been effective, then well and good. Otherwise individual reminders might work better. If they dont speak English (which I hope isnt the case), we need to bridge that.
Rahul
I am hoping to start trying to make some 1 on 1 contacts starting next week with those who have not yet completed the required steps. I am also looking to find out some things that ambassadors are looking for from the project. I would really like to try and get some ideas flowing with in marketing as a whole if I can.
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 12:42 +0000, Rodrigo Menezes wrote:
What's the procedure if you find Ambassadors that doesn't speak English?
Rodrigo Menezes
If we have other ambassadors that speak their native tongue, we have previously teamed them up on occasions and asked the person who speaks English to act as a bridge.
Realistically though, you need to be able to converse in English if you need to be active on these projects.
Rahul
I get you point.
I asked this because I know a lot of users in Brazil that work today to promote Fedora here, wanna join Ambassadors Group but they don't speak English.
Sometimes this is a limitation, but this fact is really importante in my point of view.
If you wanna join an Project in English, with all instructions and discussions in English, at least you need to read/write English.
Cheers,
Rodrigo Menezes
Rahul Sundaram sundaram@fedoraproject.org escreveu: On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 12:42 +0000, Rodrigo Menezes wrote:
What's the procedure if you find Ambassadors that doesn't speak English?
Rodrigo Menezes
If we have other ambassadors that speak their native tongue, we have previously teamed them up on occasions and asked the person who speaks English to act as a bridge.
Realistically though, you need to be able to converse in English if you need to be active on these projects.
Rahul
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On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 16:23 +0000, Rodrigo Menezes wrote:
I get you point.
I asked this because I know a lot of users in Brazil that work today to promote Fedora here, wanna join Ambassadors Group but they don't speak English.
If you can act as a contact point and they are active in the community, then it might not be a big limitation. If we have a strong Brazilian community that can do things independently while keeping track of the information flowing through the project thats a good thing.
Sometimes this is a limitation, but this fact is really importante in my point of view.
If you wanna join an Project in English, with all instructions and discussions in English, at least you need to read/write English.
Right. I would want the people involved to take part in the discussions and lead efforts. Communities wouldnt thrive with one way communication.
Rahul
Le jeudi 01 juin 2006 à 21:59 +0530, Rahul Sundaram a écrit :
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 16:23 +0000, Rodrigo Menezes wrote:
I get you point.
I asked this because I know a lot of users in Brazil that work today to promote Fedora here, wanna join Ambassadors Group but they don't speak English.
If you can act as a contact point and they are active in the community, then it might not be a big limitation. If we have a strong Brazilian community that can do things independently while keeping track of the information flowing through the project thats a good thing.
Sometimes this is a limitation, but this fact is really importante in my point of view.
If you wanna join an Project in English, with all instructions and discussions in English, at least you need to read/write English.
Right. I would want the people involved to take part in the discussions and lead efforts. Communities wouldnt thrive with one way communication.
Rahul
We have the same problem in France. Many people are using Fedora and are promoting the distribution but don't speak English at all. We tried several things not to put these people apart, as the first FUDCon on IRC in French only. We opened up a section in our forum for bug reporting (an ambassador or someone speaking English would translate and report the bug to bugzilla) or RFE. I'm also trying to blog in French only, because the Fedora Project is a worldwide community. You can also translate the FWN in your own language.
I think theses are little improvements we can continue to find and work on. For example, promoting the FC6 test releases, trhough the bugzilla and helping reporting bugs again and again.
Thomas Canniot
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