How to establish an ambassador program?

[karthik]

In the community Area, we have the idea of running an ambassador program. A lightweight, low touch program that would allow students to participate in URSSI and promote sustainable research practices at their institution (through short workshops, talks etc). I don't have experience running a successful one and would appreciate some input from folks who have done this well.

• How do we select the ambassadors? How many?
• What will the expectations be?
• What resources will we provide them?
• What is a way to assess if the program is working well?

[nniiicc]

I know you know this program, but it might be worth citing the evaluation outcomes from SSI https://f1000research.com/articles/7-1599/v1 ... Happy to take a stab at some of this language if it would help.

[danielskatz]

Another example is the Campus Champions program. We could ask the friendly co-leads (Dana and Henry) for help/advice.

[sandragesing]

I can also add some material how we set up the ambassador programs at SGCI. I lead those. https://sciencegateways.org/engage/gateway-ambassadors https://sciencegateways.org/engage/ambassadors

Sandra Gesing Associate Research Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Computational Scientist, Center for Research Computing University of Notre Dame http://www3.nd.edu/~sgesing

On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 10:07 AM Daniel S. Katz notifications@github.com wrote:

Another example is the Campus Champions program https://www.xsede.org/community-engagement/campus-champions. We could ask the friendly co-leads (Dana and Henry) for help/advice.

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