On Friday, May 20, 2011 2:31:10 PM Okuro Okiawa wrote: > On 20.05.2011 19:07, Alan Clark wrote: > >>>> On 5/13/2011 at 12:10 PM, in > >>>> message<[email protected]> > > > > I'm intrigued with this idea. I think that offering something like > > this to our Ambassadors is a great idea, and ask for your help to > > make this idea feasible. > > > > Here's my concern. Since the process to become an Ambassador is very > > simple [1], we don't want people signing up as Ambassadors simply as > > a free mechanism to get their CLA. This would create work, clutter > > and noise to our community. People would sign up and then we would > > never hear from them again. It would also create extra expense (as > > in real $) to our community and/or SUSE as a sponsor; money expended > > without benefit to our community. [1] > > http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassadors#How_do_I_join.3F > > Hey, > > I agree with the idea of making free courses for ambassadors. But I see > the problem too. In my opinion, it's not on behalf of openSUSE to have > several ambassadors who just sign up and then aren't heard any more. > > I believe, that an ambassador should run through a similar process as an > openSUSE Member has too. Every ambassador should apply for the post e.g. > at the newsletter or the website and has to get at least a certain > number of supporters of his or her ideas to become ambassador. > > That would raise the quality of the post of an openSUSE ambassador!
Just an idea to play all around. As this training sponsored program could start to improve and standardize the tecnical skills for ambassadors . It can starts with the older active ambassadors and assigning a quota for some regions or countries (maybe based on population size) at the very beginning. Advantages: Doing so you could manage better the resources. If this pilot program makes the expected results move forward with the next group and so on. You will have the first generation, second, third, .....trainees. Better and solid knowledge of openSUSE or SUSE could activate a solid participation and arguments. Cons: we would need the ambassador subscriptions date to organize the lists. It needs a teamwork to organize ambassadors, region or countries, subscription date. Regards, -- Ricardo Chung | openSUSE Linux Ambassador Panama openSUSE 11.4 | KDE 4.6.00 release 6 | Mesa 3D-Nouveau Gallium 7.10 video drivers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
