Hi Gregory,
if a FOSS community starts to deal to much with itself it could be, that focus gets lost and is not healthy. I think there is a risk to fail if one is trying to succesfully transport business measurement techniques one to one from business world into a FOSS Project. Measurement is about control and business controlls will not work here. But maybe we can adopt some of it! Please, this is not meant as a discouragement, it is a good idea to learn how things work in FOSS first - i know you are very eager to start and that is the reason i try provide you an answer for your questions - maybe we can achieve something great by combine things from both world.
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 14:22:11 Gregory Zysk wrote:
One thing I would like to start with to help all of you form a marketing mindset is to ask the question of "What happened in June of 2009 within the Fedora Project?
As you can see: https://fedorahosted.org/fama/wiki/AmbassadorMetrics views that we have had a steady increase since measurement began in January of 2006. That is until June of 2009.
Just for notice - Fedora is far more than the Ambassadors Group which is only a (large) sub-project
Once we can answer this question, we can begin to answer these sub-questions:
- Who were these ambassadors?
In the past the Ambassador Group was often used by new Contributors as an entry level Group - which is what the Ambassador Group is definitely not - because you have not only to present Fedora as an OS - also the Project itself and therefore it is imperative to know the project better than anybody else. This is the reason why we have established a strong mentoring process and have a new membership process.
You can see the result, who they are where they are from ... for the last month's here https://fedorahosted.org/fama/report/6
- What specific contributor groups were they apart of?
this should be easy to get from FAS by writing a script - is there a volunteer around ;) ?
- Where did they go after they left the ambassador group?
You will notice the incursion in Jun 09 this was a big clean up of inactive accounts http://kitall.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html
Hope this helps to clarify a bit
cu Joerg