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