 Hi, I am Maureen Ordon, I am Fedora's Community Action and Impact Coordinator, and we're here to talk about the Community Outreach Rebamp. Go ahead, Sumantra, if you want to introduce yourself. So hi, I'm Sumantra. I work as the part of the temporary task force, the task force in fact, and me and Mariana, we have a goal to make sure that we nail down certain pinpoints of the Fedora Ambassadors program, making it much, much, much better than it was, and we work closely with Maureen, meet every now and then, and this 15 minutes is all about sharing updates and letting you know more about what's going on, how we are proceeding, so on and so forth. That's in a nutshell, so Maureen, you can go on. Oh, I just want to clarify, Sumantra Mukherjee and Mariana Ballar are actually co-leading something called the temporary task force. So we asked a couple individuals, you know, what kind of capacity do you have to work on some community initiatives, and Sumantra and Mariana have committed some other time, so a huge thank you to them, and to all the other people volunteering on the task force as well. So I'm just going to give like a tiny bit of background information, and then Sumantra, while we can talk about the different stuff we're doing, I guess. So very quickly, to give a background, the Fedora Ambassadors program is a 15-plus year program, has had many successes over the years, but as time went on, the program grew, but it didn't scale. So certain things came up organizationally that caused all kinds of different feelings to happen, and, you know, the program kind of declined a little bit. Meanwhile, we had a couple other groups start up. We had a team called ComOps, that's community operations. We had a team called Mindshare, and we had a team called Join Sake, and we also came up with this role called Advocate. So, you know, we kind of have all these different kinds of community outreach teams, right? So Ambassadors is very well-loved. So at one point in the spring, the conversation came back up, and we said, you know what? This is the time to tackle this problem. We came up with a proposal. We worked with the community to refine that a little bit, and since then we've gotten started in July. So the Mindshare committee kind of really helped kick it off and work through that proposal and approval process. And now it's kind of like a separate, a little bit of a separate entity. So that's how it all came about. And so Mindshare, if you want to talk about some of the different things, I actually can put a link in the chat as well to help out when people can get some background. Oh, there we go. It's on. So just to give the plan of action, if you go down the document, you'll find a plan of action. So the whole idea over here was to make sure that we find out, or we start with cleaning up the Federal Ambassadors group, which is the FAST group, which maintains the list of active ambassadors. So over the last couple of several weeks, in fact, we have gone down, we have taken some CDs of steps, and it involved a lot of working with the COM OPS team, it involved working with the DNI team, and we have actually went ahead and we framed a set of questions that we would like to ask our current ambassadors. But before we did that, we wanted to clean up our ambassadors group. So what we did? We went ahead, we ran a script, which was developed by BT0, thanks, Alberto, and kudos to him for doing all these things. And I sent out 500 emails, like Murray said. We cleaned up the group, the process is still on. So we are going to transition most of the people who either did not reply to the emails or most of whom say that we have great faith in Fedora, but we don't have time because life happened. We respect them all and we are for to thank them for all the good work they have done over the past years in the project. We would transition them to an ambassador's ambassadors group. That's in the process. It's going to be there in coming weeks. We are going to run this script again for people who have the fact called sponsors. So we are going to do that for ambassadors, mentors as well, we're going to clean up that group as well. And once we are done with that, Murray has a very cool spoiler alert, Murray has made this very good logic model, which is going to come up, which would say what the output of this entire effort is going to look like, how we are going to drive the new pace of Fedora ambassadors and what are the new things that's going to come up. That's surprise. I don't want to drop the bomb at this point, but sooner or later you are going to see a logic model, which is fantastic in my opinion, which is going to come up in a couple of weeks. To say a little bit about what we did in October, October has been a really busy time for us because Fedora 33 released Women's Day, a lot of outreach applications come in and we have the release parties. So it's a very difficult time for us to maintain and manage time, but then somehow it just works all together. We just came together, we met a lot of times, usually on Mondays, me, Mariana and Murray meet and we talk about how things are going, if we need inputs and stuff like that. So other than the... I have more. I don't know if you're about to talk about this, but the ComOps team is working on one of the parts of the revamp, which we feel is really important, which will be to document the current MindShare teams and what their responsibilities are. So if you think about Fedora's structure, MindShare teams are things that fall on the non-programming side of Fedora, things such as the magazine, Fedora badges, marketing, design. So the idea is to get like a health check on them and to understand where they're at and what they're actually doing and maybe what they want to do and maybe more of in the future. So that is something that actually the ComOps team is working on. Like Sumatra said, also they're busy, but that's yet another thing that is being worked on right now. Yeah. So exactly what Murray said. So that's going to be one of the things. Now, as this is an effort which is best led jointly, we want more and more people to join a group that we have been trying to assemble for a long amount of time. And we have finally come to this good point where we have a meeting scheduled almost bi-weekly Thursdays and any community person can join that group and let us know how things are working. They can pick up some action items that's being worked on. So one of the major things that we are currently working on and Murray has given the link already is the community outreach survey, which we are trying to put out as soon as possible. And this surface would go out to all the ambassadors who have responded to the email as they want to continue as ambassadors. Also the current active ambassadors and we are going to reach out to them and ask, what made you interested? What kept you going with Fedora ambassadors' program? What did you envision yourself to be? And we would take all those feedback into account when we are trying to shape up the new program. So that's one of the major things we are going to do. This survey is going to bring out all the bright spots of Fedora ambassadors' program that it had before, people envisioned themselves to be. And we would want to gather all those valuable feedback as we move ahead. So this is a very good time to help us with the survey, helping us filling the survey of course as you are ambassadors, but of course helping us shape up the survey so you can help us understand how the entire language around that works. So maybe we would like feedback as much as possible. We have to wrap up. I'm going to say one last thing that we've talked to the council on the mailing list about making this a objective. So everyone will be hearing more updates about it very soon.