[Ambassadors] leaving Fedora Ambassador's project

nihed mbarek nihed at fedoraproject.org
Sat Feb 17 12:50:53 UTC 2007


Hi Francesco Ugolini
dont go.
this project need persons like you

2007/2/17, Francesco Ugolini <francesco.ugolini at fedoraproject.org>:
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> 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."
> > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambassador)
> >
> > 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
>
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M'BAREK Med Nihed,
Fedora Ambassador, TUNISIA, Northern Africa
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