sorry you are the best ;) <div>2007/2/17, Francesco Ugolini <<a href="mailto:francesco.ugolini@fedoraproject.org">francesco.ugolini@fedoraproject.org</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 nihed mbarek ha scritto: > Hi Francesco Ugolini > dont go. > this project need persons like you > > 2007/2/17, Francesco Ugolini <<a href="mailto:francesco.ugolini@fedoraproject.org"> francesco.ugolini@fedoraproject.org</a> > <mailto:<a href="mailto:francesco.ugolini@fedoraproject.org">francesco.ugolini@fedoraproject.org</a>>>: > > Robert Whetsel ha scritto: >> ALCON, > >> I would like to start it was a pleasure to get to kind of know > those of you >> I've >> met and worked with. I am telling you that I am leaving the Fedora > Project >> after >> my events are completed this month. I will do one last edit of my > RobertWhetsel >> for history sake. > >> I feel as I did not get to know many of you as well as I would > have liked. >> Part >> of my leaving is that a lot of us do not really understand the > responsibilities >> and duties of a Ambassador, let alone what is the big picture of > Linux and the >> concepts open source. > >> An Ambassador is defined as: >> "An ambassador is a diplomatic official accredited to a foreign > sovereign or >> government, or to an international organization, to serve as the > official >> representative of his or her own country. In everyday usage it > applies to the >> ranking government representative stationed in a foreign capital. > The host >> country typically allows the ambassador control of specific > territory called an >> embassy, whose territory, staff, and even vehicles are generally > afforded >> diplomatic immunity in the host country." >> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambassador"> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambassador</a>) > >> The Fedora Project's Ambassadors role is getting the word out by > using a >> grassroots approach. Additionally, I believe we should be sharing the >> possibilities of what if. What if all people has access to > eduction; no matter >> where they live. What if a small company could use software that > helped them >> automate a business process that saved them enough money to hire > one more >> employee. What if through education someone is able to get a job > and not worry >> about how feed her family or where they are going to sleep. What > if one more >> person believed that they could make a difference. That is what an > Ambassador >> does; they open doors for people who don't know and give a new way > to look at >> computing; one user at a time. Events are nice, but remember > without people an >> event is an empty room. > >> The marketing group roles are different from that as an > ambassador. And, with >> the ambassador group still trying to find their way the merging of > the two >> groups will ensue into chaos for a time after the transition. And, > when we >> figure it out there will be a new set of people who will repeat > the same >> mistakes. Again, people will wounder wjy we continue struggle. Is > it because we >> keep changing the mission? Not really; We have had a lot of > volunteers for >> subprojects, however when some people realized how much effort was > needed and >> no >> one else steeped up to help; they quietly let the due date lapse > until we >> forgot >> about it. > >> For me I don't understand why we continue to repeat our meeting > agendas. It has >> at times that I thought that we were playing a previous recorded > show. A >> meeting >> should be for action; debate needs to take place before via ml and > a voting is >> conducted during the meeting. Our lack of process is the failure > to read >> meeting >> minutes and the inability to realize we discussed and resolve that > issue. >> Additionally, when we get new people we get new Ideas; (same ideas > more or >> less) >> we already resolved as policy or dismissed. It's human nature to > keep working >> in >> our short term memory. > > > I think you have to stay to tell this to all ambassadors, if you leave > the project will lose an important (you were here before ambassador > started) point of view. > > You are free to take this decision, i hope you can change it. > > Thanks > > Francesco Ugolini > I don't leave, read the mail deeper... Regards Francesco Ugolini - -- <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FrancescoUgolini">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FrancescoUgolini </a> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF1vr+o7ksRmSqXkYRAmQ0AKCe60HUZB8ui4+YNACUTpVhz5KWGgCeI9CZ ahKVA+izeZdUukHnNp8+Ht0= =ReYn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com">Fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list </a> </blockquote></div> -- M'BAREK Med Nihed, Fedora Ambassador, TUNISIA, Northern Africa