[RIPE Atlas Ambassadors] How to get people to actually plug in their probes?

I meant to send this to the whole list:

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 8:13 PM Ricardo Arturo Cabral <
ricardo.arturo.cabral at gmail.com> wrote:

> I hand mine to people I know: friends or co-workers. I created a Telegram
> group chat and added all of them there. They can use a command to check the
> connectivity of their probe directly from the group chat.
>
> Regularly I get in touch with them and ask them to connect their probes or
> to troubleshoot them if they appear abandoned.
>
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>
> 2018-03-31 07:48 (GMT+08:00), Philip Paeps <philip at trouble.is> said:
> > I had a conversation with a new probe host who was wondering how many of
> > the probes I hand out "walk off" never to be seen again.
> > Sadly, that's quite a lot of them in my case.  I guess I need to find
> > conferences with more reliable attendees?
> > People promise to plug them in but then they get distracted.  Or they
> > move and the probes end up in boxes.
> > How do other ambassadors twist their hosts' arms into actually plugging
> > in probes?  (And keeping them plugged in!)
> > Philip
> > --
> > Philip Paeps
> > Senior Reality Engineer
> > Ministry of Information
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