Ambassadors/Mentors Survey

Place to collect the results from the Mentors Survey

What were your expectations when you signed up to become a mentor?

• I had no expectations. Actually, I didn't even expect to become a mentor, you surprised me when you proposed my candidacy :)

• I expected to give guidance to those who wanted to become Fedora Ambassadors. That was really the only thing that I expected -- as far as the people involved, I expected everyone to act professionally and with courtesy, and everyone has acted that way. As for the people I mentor, most have been enthusiastic and informed about Fedora, which has been a plus.

• When I signed up to be a mentor my understanding is that I'm going to contribute by helping applicants gain the necessary knowledge to use the tools Ambassadors use. When I started out in Ambassadors, I had a long time figuring out things that to me now look very simple.
  • Another expectation was to know more Ambassadors. By being a mentor, applicants would need to talk to me and for me that's fun. It's not everyday you can talk to a Fedora Ambassador you haven't worked with in the past.
  • An additional bonus is that I mostly work with guys from APAC - for me that's an added motivation. When I started in Ambassadors, we're just a handful who attends regional meetings, writes on the mailing list, etc. It brings a good feeling when you come across someone you mentored in one of those meetings, make you feel proud.

• Nothing as such. But I expected to guide a few more people into the group and subsequent leadership positions.

• My expectation were to help Ambassador Team and help new people intro contributors.

• to improve the knowledge and experience of new Fedora Ambassadors. Or with other words: Quality instead of quantity.

How much of these have been met in the current form of the mentor-candidate relationship?

• All of them.
• Pretty much everything is spot on.
• Not much. We have not found many candidates who are willing and/or fit to get into the positions.
• I feel that I have create good relationship with some new ambassadors, and for others was just protocol.
• All

Do Mentors have enough feedback on the accountability and transparency of the system with https://fedorahosted.org/fama/?

• Well, sometimes I'm not really sure if I'm doing the right thing, but apparently you never said I wasn't, so I guess I have enough feedback and everything's fine. :)
• I think so. Although if there's a way to make it more open and transparent, I wouldn't object (but I don't know what that might be).
• When people use the system, we have enough. When we don't, awkward situations arise.
• I am unable to answer this because I am one of the admins. But I think I am pretty satisfied with the transparency.
• Yes, I think that there is enough detail to know what is going on which each application.
• Yes - but I've to add, that the information in the trac (except for the tickets) are partially outdated, deprecated or obsolete. They should maybe get an update to reflect current things.

Do you consider the need for any tooling to help with this workflow (Memberhsip Wizard was a big improvement!)?

• Frankly, I have no idea. I just started doing this, I just mentored my 5th mentee, so this is all kinda new. I'll probably have more hindsight after a few more time.
• Outside of Membership Wizard -- a huge +1 -- I don't think there is a need.
• Standardizing mentor requirements will be one - makes me wonder why applicants shop between mentors.
• Yes, sort of.
• No, I think that we need to wait and see how efficient is the new wiki guide.
• No. Regarding the membership wizard: It's a nice to have, but in fact, the wizard seems not to be that widely used as it maybe should (new ambassadors have still poor/not really meaningful wiki pages). Maybe the wizard needs to point out, that people should write something personal, what they are planning to do in Fedora and how they're right now contributing. Just the contact data are not really meaningful for an ambassador. But ambassadors - at least from my point of view - need to have meaningful wiki pages, as they are representing and promoting Fedora.