-------- Forwarded Message -------- > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Mike McGrath wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 15:52 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > > > > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > > > > > > > > Apologies for this being an idea with no code attached. I'm hoping that > > > > > some of the able folks are on this list and will see something > > > > > achievable. > > > > > > > > > > Something the Community Architecture folks and I have discovered is that > > > > > when we sign up new folks for an account, there's not any way to mark > > > > > them for follow up or to indicate a note for where they did it. A > > > > > couple methods for doing this come to mind: > > > > > > > > > > 1. Simple but effective -- a way to tag account holders arbitrarily. > > > > > This might help with a number of things, like skill sets, karma, and so > > > > > forth. In this case, the tag would allow Ambassadors to follow up on > > > > > particular shows by listing everyone with "FooCon 2008" in their tag > > > > > list. > > > > > > > > > > 2. More complicated but possibly more predictable -- A plugin for FAS > > > > > that would allow ambassadors to request or create a special signup > > > > > portal, and use it at a show to help visitors sign up (e.g. > > > > > join.fp.o/foocon2008 or foocon2008.join.fp.o). > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'd say 2 is pretty easy in a plugin. > > > > > > > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/promo/sign-up/MyPromo > > > > > > > > where MyPromo could just be arbitrary. It'd get flagged somewhere that we > > > > could get it later. > > > > > > > > The point of this is so users can sign up with some sort of flag on how > > > > they found out about Fedora, and then run stats on it later? > > > > > > Not just stats, but also to get people "assigned" geographically to > > > Ambassadors or some other mentor group, in a way that makes sense and > > > maximizes stickiness. > > > > > > > So something more exact then timezone, locale and country or could this > > metric bet completely independent of those values? > > > > Another note on that, if we split up the ambassadors into regions (I > suspect they already are) would it be better to just create a group for > each region managed by the ambassadors? We could create FAS groups for regions, sure. But there's also particular ambassadors to consider -- for example, an Ambassador who works on Websites might target a new signup for helping with Websites, even though that new person lives in a different country. Maybe groups plus the portal plugin would do the trick. I'll ask around with the Ambassadors. -- Paul W. Frields gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://paul.frields.org/ - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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