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Our volunteer ambassadors will attend local Linux and open-source events, meet with other Framework laptop users and potential community members, answer questions, gather feedback, and showcase Framework laptops and parts to those interested. Ambassadors will be in close touch to Framework employees and they will represent the Linux community, feedback and requests directly to our engineers and to our internal Linux team.
That sounds way too close to unpaid labour. I’m all for recognizing community members with perks, merch, and other freebies; but this looks more like soliciting volunteers for unpaid PR.
Could at least give them a framework laptop.
OP, just call them “unpaid volunteers”, jeez.
OP, just call them “unpaid volunteers”, jeez.
If that was for a non-profit community-driven organization, what would be the correct term. Framework, however, is a regular for-profit company that is looking for people to promote their commercial products.
I just really hate clickbait titles when you could easily put your clickbait in the description.
This isn’t a program to get people to go to conferences and rep Framework, it’s a program to give people who are already going to conferences and showing off their Framework some swag and opportunities to talk with the team. It’s not assigning work, it’s just saying thank you to people who are excited about Framework and active in the Linux community.
They already have volunteers for this cause of repairable products they believe in, hence looking for volunteers.
Those “ambassadors” are expected to take appointments via social media to show off the hardware and answer questions. That’s a job.
No? The only thing ambassadors will be required to do on social media is to list the events they’ll be attending.
Fist: Yes. "Where do I find the ambassadors in an event? Please reach out to the ambassadors on their social media if you have trouble locating them at events.
As an event attendee, what can I get from meeting an ambassador? You can get your questions answered, share your feedback, and get Framework stickers and other goodies. In case you haven’t before, you will also get to see a Framework Laptop in person."
It’s written down black on white: ambassadors need to be available on social media to schedule a meeting, reply to questions, and hand out “stickers and other goodies” (=those aren’t even for the ambassadors to keep).
Second: so there are, by your own admission, requirements tied to getting some stickers.
That’s a job. It’s not a full time job but it most certainly is a job.
please reach out to your ambassadors on social media
That != “ambassadors are required to reply”
I expect it’s layout is much like twitchcon, where you could reach out to your content creators for questions and meetups, but there is no obligation to respond.
In the case of this, these people already were attending regardless, so it’s not like they wouldn’t want to mix and mingle via social media as is.
So they have to make their social media profiles public, open up their DMs but replying to those DMs is supposedly optional? Where does it say that in the FAQ?
