Hi mentors, dear FAmSCo,
I followed a bit the last changes about mentoring status and reorganizing
the mentoring process overall, and some ideas are really interesting and
FAmSCo could come up with nice proposals soon.
Nevertheless, until we do not change anything, our steps for ongoing
ambassadors are still the same, and I guess will also remain the same. Our
job is to follow and help ambassadors to find their way into the group,
making sure they are ready to do a good job.
Recently new mentors joined us (welcome to all), so this mail also has the
goal to remember the new mentors we have a process and precise steps to
follow [1].
We also had some ideas/proposals/suggestions in the past to try to define
some guidelines of how the mentoring process should look like. What kind of
topics all ambassadors have to know, which informations would be a "nice to
have" and and and....we can do that and start a separate discussion for it
if anyone of you is interested.
But I also think a mentoring process of 7 hours is just....hmmm...too
short, we cannot base our sponsoring to "believing" or "feeling", even if
we have experienced contributors. All contributors are different and I
think some of them can be sponsored within a few days, but only if we have
obvious contributions and stuff in other groups. I stumbled over this 7
hour ticket [2], but in this case I don't find notable contributions at all.
Is it that what we want? Is it just, I know a mentor, so he will sponsor me
immediately? Not that I want to raise a wall for ongoing ambassadors they
never will pass, but we should make sure we have people out there who know
exactly what to say to end users during events.
I'm happy to hear your opinions about it.
Thanks for reading until the end :)
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassador_Candidate_Ticket_Management
[2] https://fedorahosted.org/fama/ticket/2178
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Robert Mayr
(robyduck)
