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## Summary
Appointment / nomination model for new Ambassador candidates with criteria to consider
their selection
## Background
In the meeting, I was skeptical of making a hasty decision for how we select the
candidates if the intent is to include them in the FAD. Transparency is critical in this
process, from my POV. If interested, the community should easily understand how the
Ambassador reps are included in the Mindshare Committee. This avoids any accidental FUD
that could come by making a quick decision.
I felt an appointment / nomination model makes more sense because I believe Fedora's
electoral governance model is subject to selection bias¹. I attended a talk by the
OpenSUSE chairman, [Distributions are not democracies – and that's
okay](https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/distributions_are_not_democr...
([
video](https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/fosdem/2018/K.3.201/distributions_are_n...),
which gave me a lot to think about (and is influencing my thoughts here). I think using
current context of the Mindshare Committee membership to select Ambassador reps is
important, especially to ensure geographical coverage for international efforts (even if
regions are going away, cultural and national groupings will not).
¹ I believe Fedora's elections are subject to selection bias because capable
candidates do not always run for election or capable but somewhat invisible contributors
face challenges to be elected.
## Details
I'd like to discuss this as a FAD topic because I think it's important we try to
do this "right" as we can from the outset.
I haven't had a chance to brainstorm ideas on what a selection / appointment model may
look like for Mindshare. I want to research and explore what other communities are doing
for similar things. Open source governance isn't anything new and I think we can learn
a lot from other communities (and also keep this grounded and achievable in a short
timeframe).
## Action
Using an appointment / nomination model by Mindshare Committee to select Ambassador reps,
but maybe save as discussion point for FAD?
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