[RIPE Atlas Ambassadors] RIPE Atlas for Saudi Arabia - how come so many abandoned?

On 2019-04-30 07:05, Evgeniy S. wrote:
> Dear people from RIPE who are involved in Atlas project,
> 
> do you have any past experience to get people (who have abandoned
> probes) notified over email with nice message asking to connect probes
> back (or return to ambassador for re-distribution)?
> 
> --
> Evgeniy

Hi,

Yes, we're periodically reaching out to hosts of abandoned probes. We
had an "all abandoned" campaign before, ant the latest one was, if I
recall correctly, for Russia specifically.

All of these have some effect -- there's always *some* increase in
available probes.

Regarding this:

On 2019-04-30 02:10, Amreesh Phokeer wrote:> This is what happens when
probes are distributed in the wild. In
> Africa, we have the same problem, now our strategy is to give it to
> interested collaborators only.

Indeed, it is always much more successful to find interested people (who
can at least imagine how this will be helpful for *them*) than to
convince someone to sign up and "sell" the idea. I find this to be the
biggest value for the ambassador program: to know the local needs and
target the most responsive users.

Regards,
Robert