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
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