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

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
>
>
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