Here's an example from real-life. I took a fancy to a product from a consumer goods company, checked up their websites for the nearest stores, paid a visit to all of them and, found out that this particular product is not launched for my region at all. That specific bit of information was available at the larger store who pointed me to the contact details for their head office. So, the question was - what about my consumer experience (going round and round without getting what I wanted) and, did I eventually buy it ?
I am sure that the answer would be fairly obvious. Firstly, thank you Ankur for taking time out to write the concerns. As much we have talked about it, having a single mail helps. This is much appreciated. On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Ankur Sinha<[email protected]> wrote: > A lot of ambassadors lack accountability. I suggest a weeding process to > weed ones that are inactive. I know this has been done before, but > housekeeping is periodic, isn't it? > > Since becoming a fedora ambassador is a voluntary activity,requiring no > qualification, a lot of folks join up just so they can call themselves > "Fedora Ambassador in India" without paying *any* respect to it's > duties. The decision to become a Fedora Ambassador is voluntary, but not for a moment let us delude ourselves by thinking that it requires no qualification. An Ambassador is an evangelist and, an evangelist is a person who knows as much about the product/technology as do the developers. That takes a lot of doing and, requires investing time. A self-initiated disciplined approach towards becoming an excellent Ambassador goes further than an externally imposed discipline coupled with the stick of censure. There can be many good reasons as to why a listed Ambassador might choose to be silent and unresponsive. And, they are all valid reasons. However, because he/she is an Ambassador, it is their duty to inform the Ambassadors about their going on leave of absence so that the end user experience is not hindered. Susmit has worked hard within the FAmSCo to put in place a system somewhat similar to what you describe which is aimed at a single objective - ensuring that the listed Ambassadors are the "active" Ambassadors. I would like to give the system some time to show results. It does derive from the "provenpackager" model and, I believe that it would help us grow a better community of Ambassadors. > As starters,for eg(s), > > - IIRC, all ambassadors were required to post on their blogs (every 3 > months atleast , I think?) regarding what work they've been doing? > - How many of them even take part in discussions on this list? > - How many of them are helping spread Fedora or contributing otherwise? Good catch :) I haven't been that regular myself. I think I should start putting out on blogs that discussions which are initiating various good stuff. > There are a lot of other duties that need to be fulfilled which are > going *ignored*. As a side effect, *we* end up asking questions such > as,"If there are *so many* ambassadors, why isn't the LC program > working??" The LC program has its own reasons for being the way it is and, frankly, it has been one issue that we have been trying to grapple without much apparent success. > Replying to a mail saying "Yes, I'm an ambassador and I've been doing > this recently."(which there is no way of confirming) is not enough to > "qualify" someone as an ambassador. Most folks only wake up to reply to > that one mail so they can keep the "FA in India". I tend to follow the thumb-rule that the Ambassadors will not be fibbing. Or, they will write about what they have been doing actually. Of course, it turns out that now and then I do get pointed to tall claims. Not much can be done besides the fact that the specific Ambassador loses the currency of trust on my books. The point is, if someone is doing, they are trying to solve problems and, such things are best done through a discussion with the peer group. [snip] > There was a "probation period" for new ambassadors too. I haven't quite > seen it implemented. Ahh ! That means we are doing a good job of implementing it :) ~sankarshan -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work _______________________________________________ Fedora-india mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india
