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

With so many failures due to USB issues, it’s hard to accurately assign
blame for distributed probes that never come online.

To get the 40+ probes I distributed in the Pacific Islands online I sent
hosts USB chargers, called and emailed, and reminded until they were
plugged in - but then more than half failed.

On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 at 12:48, Philip Paeps <philip at trouble.is> wrote:

> 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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