Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Steering Committee/2011-02-27

Members present:


 * Alex Stinson


 * Annie Lin


 * PJ Tabit


 * Fletcher Commons


 * Cheryl Moy

Regional Ambassador Program

 * Proposed Organizational Chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Ambassador_levels.pdf&page=1


 * Added the "Education Manager" role to manage at the national level


 * Dual Goal: Managable work levels; minimal bureaucracy


 * Remaining questions:


 * What is the appropriate workload for each Regional Ambassador?

Approx. how many professors & how many Campus Ambassadors will each Regional Ambassador be responsible for?

3 - 5 professors per ambassador

What is the time commitment for this role? (Still 3-5 hours a week? 10 hours a week?)

My take is that we should determine the appropriate time commitment, and then define the size of each "region" accordingly. So if we want the time commitment to be 3-5 hours only (which would be my preference), we should probably have each Regional Ambassador be in charge of only a couple of CAs/professors.


 * How many Regional Ambassadors per region?

My recommendation: 1 to 3. If any more is needed, we should break up the region into smaller regions.2


 * Should we have Regional Ambassadors in regions without participating professors/Ambassadors? This could be a good way to jumpstart activities in that region - similar to the rationale for having Ambassadors at universities without participating professors.

Yes, the regional Ambassadors without Campus Ambassador experiences need to refer to other Regional Ambassador/Educator before confirming the commitment of the Professor


 * Annie - Will propise map of regional ambassadors

Elections Discussion

 * Need someone to make the written proposal for elections, to summarize all the decision


 * Sage and Fletcher will draft skeleton of election procedures


 * by Friday, March 11th


 * Everyone else will add/edit


 * Timeline


 * End of March, election process reviewed by ambassadors in general


 * By second week of April: everyone has cast votes