This is how we turn voluntary passion into the backbone of a global community. Ambassador teams are autonomous as to lessen the burden on Managers while simultaneously providing a check to their actions. Here we will learn how to build a community that is, welcoming, self-organising and fair.

💬 Due Process

Pioneers 📯

If an Embassy is innactive, new Ambassadors may occupy it with the blessing of the Ambassador Council.

Manager’s Choice☝️

If an Embassy is innactive, New Managers may occupy it with 2 new Ambassadors selected by “pointing the finger”.

Democracy 🗽

With a Manager and 2 Ambassadors in place the Embassy becomes active. New members are added by internal vote or by blessing of the Ambassador Council.

Candidacy and voting 🗳

• Collaborators apply via the website.

• Managers get no vote, but ensure criteria are upheld.

• Ambassadors vote either yes, no or abstain

• Collaborators with 75% of yes votes are admitted to the team. Abstentions are not counted.

• An active Ambassador with strong reasons to reject a candidate may overule the 80% with a veto. Their reasons are private and not to be questioned.

• After applying a veto, the Ambassador is unable to ‘veto’ again for the following 5 rounds (Use it wisely)

• Rejected candidates may reapply every 3 months.

Embassies

Language

Ambassadors represent a foreign language, preferably one they speak natively. They are titled accordingly; French Ambassador, Catalan Ambassador, Mandarin Ambassador.

Majority-Foreign teams

Ambassador teams must be a majority of foreigners plus a few local people. However, teams are given grace to build up to 50% of their team with locals. Teams must not hold more than 50% of any one language natively.

Polyglots 🦸‍♂️

Polyglots (fluent in 5 languages) are exempt from all criteria. They get a free pass.

Requirements

To be titled Ambassador one must

• Attend 8 events

• Attend over a span of 3 months

• Notable online community interaction.

• Advanced fluency in a language not covered by the team.

• Intend to stay 3 months.

• Will attend minimum of twice monthly

• Can dedicate 30 minutes to online activity each week.

Benefits 🍻

• Certification: Volunteering with Mundo Lingo gives you a set of desirable tools such as being a good communicator, proactive and team player. Having completed an Ambassadorship, we’ll give you a certificate of appreciation for these skills.

• A drink on us: Have one or two drinks per event on us. Check with Event Managers for local details.

• Team Socials: We organise Ambassador meetings once a month. We might ask you to take care of your own drinks but we will pay for the food.

• Meet the international team: Ambassadors join our global Collaborators group and are invited to calls to meet other Ambassadors from around the world.

• Guest of honour: When you travel we’ll connect you to the local Ambassador Team at your destination. You’ll be received warmly by the team and given your usual Ambassador flag and a drink on us.

• Enrol as a Flagger This is a sometimes-compensated role that Ambassadors can take after completing training. Flaggers greet participants with their flags and ‘The Speech’.

Ambassadors Tasks

Try to meet as many of the following as possible.

• Greet and connect people IRL and on Social Media.

• Promote your language in Mundo Lingo by introducing yourself to everyone who speaks that language and connecting them to each other.

• Promote Mundo Lingo in your city amongst your language community.

• Mitigate shyness, support “misfits”, as noted in the Ambassadors Guide.

• Use our guide “Cultivating Community” actively on FB and Meetup

• Organise Satelite Events as described in the Special Events guide.

Flaggers

Candidates Ambassadors with experience and time spent with our community (and in the crowd) can train to become Flagggers.

Greeting our guests is done by people trained with The Speech. If you would like to be a Flagger, check the Collaborators group for the schedule.

While Ambassadors are purely volunteers, Flaggers may be offered something, albeit it a small symbolic prize of 5usd, or extra drinks, for turning up on time.

Stepping Down

We want you to be genuinely interested in the project and actively a part of it. If you need a break or want to step down please let the team know via the Embassy or in person. If you wish to return later it’s no problem.

Out of Action

Studying, travelling or expect to be away for a long time due to other commitments? No problem. Let the Managers and team know your plans and if you intend to drop participation online, offline or both.