2009/10/14 Christoph Wickert <[email protected]> > Am Mittwoch, den 14.10.2009, 17:26 +0200 schrieb Gregory Zysk: > > > > >> If we interact with people outside the community, then yes we do > > need to have some sort of metrics that reflect what we do. > > I don't think that the number of ambassadors reflects what we do. There > are other ways to measure this: The number of events we do, the number > of talks our ambassadors do or the number of Fedora installs [1] and so > on. > > Take a look at Ubuntu, they seem measure their success by the number of > Ubuntu CDs the gave away on an event. I recall talking to a guy from > their community and he said: "It was a very successful event for Ubuntu, > we gave away nearly 3000 CDs." I wasn't really surprised about the high > number because they had big boxes of CDs standing in front of their > booth. People walked by and grabbed 10 or 20 at once while the Ubuntu > people were sitting behind their desk and reading books. > To me this is no success. For me it is more important to have a nice > conversation with somebody. We talk for 5 or 10 minutes and then I give > him a Live-CD before he leaves. I'm sure this person is much more > interested in Fedora and has learned more about the project than > somebody who papers his restroom with Ubuntu-CDs because they bling so > nice. ;) > > We must not take numbers as the key to everything. Numbers do not > reflect how well a community is working or how people actually feel as > being part of this community. Is there a way to measure pride or > gratitude? > > > Those should, of course, be honest, but also precise. Not just a round > > about figure. The reason being legitimacy. > > I think they are precise. The number of Ambassadors has decreased, but > their quality has increased. How would you measure quality by numbers? > > Exactly I've noticed that the ambassadors available now have full profiles and are very active Before that i used to find ambassadors that have only a couple of words on their profiles. But know whenever Joerg Simon sends a welcome message, i like to see their profiles a lot better and productive than before.
> > This is one of the largest gauge for an organization which produces > > knowledge as an output. In simple words, these figures can be used for > > external purposes. And why not? The resources are already there (in > > this case) > > What kind of external purposes do you think of? > > Regards, > Christoph > > [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics > > > P.S.: > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines#No_HTML_Mail.2C_Please > > > -- > Fedora-marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list > -- Tareq Al Jurf Fedora Ambassador Riyadh, Saudi Arabia [email protected]
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