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#1267 · The Polkadot Ambassador Fellowship

This referendum proposes to enact the Polkadot Ambassador Fellowship Manifesto.

The goal is to create a programme that encompasses the learnings from programmes 1.0 and 2.0 and marry that with the wide ranging community feedback that had been offered throughout the course of the last year, particularly in the past few months.

During this process we have started the creation of a community culture amongst a growing number of people and have turned this collaboration into a manifesto reflective of a programme that can serve Polkadot now and in the future :

Learning from the Past, Clear Vision for the Future
The Ambassadors' chronicle reaches back many years.
Key learnings from the past help us forge a clear vision for what's to come—what we need, what we want, what we must achieve—all derived from the past.
And this allows us to learn from our mistakes.

Rooting Values and Principles
Initial values were changed, principles scattered and spread wide apart.
We work to return to our roots, rebuild values and principles and unite what once was divided.

Collaboration Instead of Competition
Together we stand, divided we fall.
We bring back a culture of community as the core.
We work together, not against one another.
We listen, support, and ensure that those who come will also stay.

Grassroots, But with Structure
We keep things human, simple, and fair.
Not bureaucracy, but lively engagement with some organisation.
And yet, we keep structure and common sense—flexible but solid, growing yet resilient, a manifesto to stand the tides of time.

From the Community, For the Community
We are people like you and me, coming together.
A community, for the community.
From builders, for builders.
We meet on equal terms, and equally build the collective's future.

A Door to Many Paths and Worlds
The Ambassadors community is a starting point—an open door to many journeys.
Start here, find your path, get guidance, and make connections.
Wherever you go, we're with you.

The Polkadot Ambassador Fellowship is resilient to change, uncoupled from salaries, focussed on building the largest on-chain decentralised community in the world.


Lucy Coulden, DonDiegoSanchez, Lorena Fabris

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The Manifesto : 
https://github.com/polkadot-phoenix/manifesto/blob/main/Polkadot%20Ambassador%20Fellowship%20Manifesto.md

Summary : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rTgaaGLzkwl8GTEyHKtWYY2aHIXGxvP6fRxUkZ2bmOs/edit?usp=sharing 

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LucyNov 4
wario

GM,

The voting weight between different ranks is disproportionate, which will lead to decisions being made by the top leadership and no as a collective, so nay.

 

A link to the folder with all of the Ambassador Fellowship calls if you want to listen to this morning, this afternoon or any other calls: 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uH4xx_g3JN8PT4eotYjsSuFuSlSrkBY5?usp=drive_link

 

LucyNov 4
wario

GM,

The voting weight between different ranks is disproportionate, which will lead to decisions being made by the top leadership and no as a collective, so nay.

 

@wario Thanks for your comments. I have also answered in Discord where you shared the same thoughts.

As I said there, this ranked voting was in the manifesto from the start and during the 7 community calls and 5 AAGs plus 2 weeks of drafts ending on draft 5, this was never flagged as an issue by anyone. I appreciate it has been a short-ish turnaround so you may not have had time to join in the process earlier.

I hope that I can explain a little as to how we came to these numbers.

— It is also the exact mirroring of the technical fellowship manifesto. Geometric scaling.

— There will be 100s if not 1000s of Rank 1-2, a large number at 3-4 and very few at 5-6. No one will be ranked above 5 in the beginning so by the time anyone has been promoted to that level, the lower ranks should have filled out nicely.

— You also have to consider that the highest ranking ambassadors will not be voting against the majority and rather be leaders in the direction the fellowship takes and the culture which it nurtures.

— This has been a very successful weighting in the technical fellowship and we expect our ambassadors to hold themselves to the same high standards at every rank, so do not foresee the geometric system as problematic. Of course, if this were to turn out not to be the case, we can come together as a community, discuss and make the amendments via a vote.

We also answer this is the calls we have had today and will be on again tomorrow.

Hope this helps and et me know if you have any further questions!

warioNov 3

GM,

The voting weight between different ranks is disproportionate, which will lead to decisions being made by the top leadership and no as a collective, so nay.

 

Nov 2

Voting AYE. As many others, i was personally quite engaged in contributing to the Manifesto as it stands today and i think that the current version is good enough to give it a go. The Manifesto creates a strong tool for the Ambassador Fellowships future, a foundation on which a new program can be built. A small, yet important piece for the Ambassadors path ahead. Thanks a lot for eveyone contributing, especially to Lucy, for keeping all moving parts & pieces tight together and to facilitate the ambassadors evolution in the right direction. Make Community Great Again, lol :)

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