I'm overwhelmed by the response (and continued discussion, accusations etc) to a simple suggestion made by Rahul. You have all been a part of spreading the Fedora word out to someone who needs help in addition to contributing to Fedora in some way or the other (coding/bug-tracking/art etc). Here is an insight from a potential ambassador who is in the process - thats me.
I'm pretty young in the Fedora community. I first used Fedora when it was Core 4. I was too young to even understand linux then. And too add to the misery, unlike other distros I found that it was pretty slow. (I was using Mandrake 8.2 then) I got partially cut off from the linux world soon (not being from a CS background) and have been just recently re-started my journey with FEL 12 and Ubuntu 9.04 and embedded flavors of Llinux. I decided to contribute to OSS and started looking for ways. I am presenting my unbiased views when I say that the only thing that attracted me to fedora was the organization, the clear cut demarcations and the streamlined procedures to be a contributor. There is a process involved and things are better of the process remains intact. I had applied for Ambassadors quite sometime back but there's no hurry. I'm myself being off-on-off-on for sometime (as things are beyond your control in campus - exams, dissertations etc.) but it gives you time to judge yourself, whether you are fit. You can't help anyone in anyway becoming an Ambassador if you are inactive most of the time. Bottom-line : Its all cool. Lets not strain our heads anymore. A possible solution can be to have a Ambassador's status wiki which clearly states active and inactive Ambassadors with contact details, duration of inactivity, etc so it becomes easy for contributors as well as newbies to get help. And just to add, next sem is going to be an event packed sem at COEP. A Fedora event, a Debian conference etc. I shall be obliged to have your cooperation/help. Cheers, Suchakra
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