Hi Gregory, if a FOSS community starts to deal to much with itself it could be, that focus gets lost and is not healthy. I think there is a risk to fail if one is trying to succesfully transport business measurement techniques one to one from business world into a FOSS Project. Measurement is about control and business controlls will not work here. But maybe we can adopt some of it! Please, this is not meant as a discouragement, it is a good idea to learn how things work in FOSS first - i know you are very eager to start and that is the reason i try provide you an answer for your questions - maybe we can achieve something great by combine things from both world. On Wednesday 14 October 2009 14:22:11 Gregory Zysk wrote: > One thing I would like to start with to help all of you form a marketing > mindset is to ask the question of "What happened in June of 2009 within the > Fedora Project? > > As you can see: https://fedorahosted.org/fama/wiki/AmbassadorMetrics views > that we have had a steady increase since measurement began in January of > 2006. That is until June of 2009. Just for notice - Fedora is far more than the Ambassadors Group which is only a (large) sub-project > Once we can answer this question, we can begin to answer these > sub-questions: > 1) Who were these ambassadors? In the past the Ambassador Group was often used by new Contributors as an entry level Group - which is what the Ambassador Group is definitely not - because you have not only to present Fedora as an OS - also the Project itself and therefore it is imperative to know the project better than anybody else. This is the reason why we have established a strong mentoring process and have a new membership process. You can see the result, who they are where they are from ... for the last month's here https://fedorahosted.org/fama/report/6 > 2) What specific contributor groups were they apart of? this should be easy to get from FAS by writing a script - is there a volunteer around ;) ? > 3) Where did they go after they left the ambassador group? You will notice the incursion in Jun 09 this was a big clean up of inactive accounts http://kitall.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html Hope this helps to clarify a bit cu Joerg -- Joerg (kital) Simon jsimon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JoergSimon http://kitall.blogspot.com Key Fingerprint: 3691 0989 2DCA 58A2 8D1F 2CAC C823 558E 5B5B 5688
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