[RIPE Atlas Ambassadors] How to get people to actually plug in their probes?
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Johan Bogg
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Wed Apr 25 11:41:35 CEST 2018
IIRC that was the case from the beginning when I became an ambassador ( 2012?), they were supposed to send new probes to the ambassadors once a set percentage was distributed. The “percentage of live probes” was later amended. ons 25 apr. 2018 kl. 10:59 skrev Jared Smith <jared at jaredsmith.io>: > I strongly agree with the fourth point. I think it should be less about “% > live probes” and more “% distributed” to account for the effort ambassadors > put into distributing probes. > > Best, > Jared > > On Apr 8, 2018, 15:23 -0400, M. Tajbakhsh <tajbakhsh at shirazu.ac.ir>, > wrote: > > Dear Lia, > > Please let me correct our course of action a little bit: > > 1. People, even carefully selected & briefed tech guys, have their > concerns about letting probes into their networks and the resources a probe > may swallow. (we know that's negligible, they don't believe) > > 2. Not only memory stick, but probes themselves fail. That happens after > about 2 years. Believe me, solutions on those doc page(s) don't fix them at > this stage. > > 3. Hosts lose interest MOST of the time, regardless of their background, > mostly because they gain nothing meaningful in the long run. (atlas credit > does not count) All they do is out of personal respect for the ambassador > and his cause (yes, we are spending out of our friendly relations for this, > it has its own consequences). The host gets nothing in return but random > requests to fix the baby. That's kinda boring and annoying. > > 4. Any other number you set as percentage for this and yet it will fail. A > time will come for any ambassador that he is stuck with enough dead probes > that you won't give him any more. I wonder how many of us have already got > there. > > I believe Atlas needs a "failed/lost probes replacement" policy rather > than an "X % live probes to get a new batch" policy. > > Regards, > M. Tajbakhsh > > > Lia Hestina wrote: > > > 1. People don’t plug in their probes after getting one from an > ambassador > 2. Host experiences probe USB failure > 3. Hosts lose interest sometimes > 4. The RIPE NCC policy that probes needs to be at least 50% active > > > _______________________________________________ > RIPE-Atlas-Ambassadors mailing list > RIPE-Atlas-Ambassadors at ripe.net > https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/ripe-atlas-ambassadors > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-atlas-ambassadors/attachments/20180425/c2756a5f/attachment.html>
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