[Ambassadors] leaving Fedora Ambassador's project

[nihed mbarek]

sorry
you are the best ;)

2007/2/17, Francesco Ugolini <francesco.ugolini at fedoraproject.org>:
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> nihed mbarek ha scritto:
> > Hi Francesco Ugolini
> > dont go.
> > this project need persons like you
> >
> > 2007/2/17, Francesco Ugolini <francesco.ugolini at fedoraproject.org
> > <mailto:francesco.ugolini at fedoraproject.org>>:
> >
> > 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
> >
>
> I don't leave, read the mail deeper...
>
> Regards
>
> Francesco Ugolini
>
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M'BAREK Med Nihed,
Fedora Ambassador, TUNISIA, Northern Africa
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