Picking up the conversation late in the proverbial game . . . On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:01 AM, David Nalley <david@xxxxxxx> wrote: > My experience is that most Ambassadors are also members of Marketing. > IIRC many moons ago joining the Marketing project was recommended on > the Ambassadors join page. While I think there is probably more of > disconnect between the two groups than previously existed there are > still many people who are in both groups. I thought being an ambassador and being a member of marketing were required when becoming an ambassador. If it isn't, should it be? > But I should go back and talk about why we decided to plod down this > path - last night after introing Larry's page - (around the 9:15 > timestamp) Jack said: "the general stance is we should > get stuff cleared with someone before we do anything with media" > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2008-August/msg00411.html Allow me a scenario: I'd hate to be Jack or whomever has to field, oh, hundreds of requests answering "Can I send a press release to my local media, please?" in the advent of F10 release party/installfests, for example; not to mention having to read and check off on each of them. An extreme example? Possibly, but in my opinion it's not unreasonable to think that every ambassador is a potential local -- local -- media contact representing Fedora. So again, let me repeat that the idea and execution for the wiki stems from helping LOCAL ambassadors deal with LOCAL media. In my opinion, having Fedora ambassadors who can deal with local media and maintain a relationship with local media in the area only helps us going forward, and is the purpose behind my developing this resource for ambassadors. <suh-nip> > The pragmatist in me says that the fact that I am a member of the > Fedora Project, have a fp.o email, and can go around talking > about/representing Fedora to LUGs, conferences etc. makes any special > authority or clearance meaningless. +1 -- If you can trust us to talk to LUGs and conferences, we should be entrusted with talking to local media on Fedora events that happen locally. Clearly, as David pointed out in an earlier e-mail (not copied here), if things are pushed "upstairs" to a regional or national level, coverage-wise, someone with more authority may need to be involved, and an ambassador could use either common sense or guidelines on when to kick a story back to someone with media authority. Normally, I vote for common sense, but I understand that guidelines may be in order for an organization this large, if for no other reason than to cut down on the "loose cannon" syndrome. Larry Cafiero -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
