[Ambassadors] Need team for National level annual technical symposium, India.

Tue Jan 2 14:57:38 UTC 2007

ALCON,

This is DISTURBING. It appears to me they have no Idea who/what Fedora is. I
believe they think that they are speaking to a Red Hat rep. I say, be honest
and
educate them about who we are and what we do. And if they do not get it move
on.
I would be happy to help explain the differences to them if would like me to
assist.

I am an Open Source Professional and an Adjunct Professor. However, I am always
a student as we all should be.

-- 
Cheers,

Robert C. Whetsel
240-215-3944
www.ravensong.com

RavenSong Open Technologies, Inc.
Frederick Innovative Technology Center, Inc. (FITCI)
401 Rosemont Avenue
Rosenstock Hall, 3rd Floor at Hood College
Frederick, MD 21701

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Quoting Tejas Dinkar <tejasdinkar at gmail.com>:

> On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, susmit shannigrahi sent out 4.6K bytes to say:
> > I don't know if this proposal can be accepted...The only thing i am sure
> > about that selection of any
> > ambassador is upon the steering commitee,I can not give any assurence on
> > that.
> 
> My comments are inline. This is so DISTURBING, It's not even funny.
> 
> > So..what you all think? The main point being they can give us slot only on
> > the day before
> > the main event starts...
> > 
> > Dear Friend,
> >    We are happy to say that we would be wanting to collaborate with the
> > Fedora Community during MUKTI 2007.
> >    We are ready to give slots for lectures to the Fedora Community on how
> > to use fedora on the 15th of February, 2007 the day before MUKTI starts 
> > right
> > inside the campus of NIT Durgapur, provided you assure us the credibility,
> > technical ability and eloquency of the speaker. You will also be getting
> > help from us to spread the Fedora word in the campus during MUKTI and can
> > also interact with the students. You can also bring along any publicity
> > material that you may want to distribute or display.
> 
> They are getting us confused with some sort of commercial entity. The
> disturbing part is next.
> 
> >   We expect a team af about 10 (i hope more) people from you, all students
> > from different technical institutes along with your speaker, who should be
> a
> > professional and not a student.
> 
> So they want 10 people to come eh? Specifically, 10 Students from other
> colleges, and a speaker who ISN'T a student?
> 
> And why not? Is it an embarrassment to the college if they have a
> student speaking? I now a lot of students more qualified than most of
> the `professional`s in the world to speak.
> 
> > We hope that MUKTI will be linked from all
> > your official websites and must be posted in our mailing list regulalry.
> 
> This is the most disturbing part. This is a clear and obvious indication
> of their motives.
> 
> They are just in this for the publicity.
> 
> They don't want to actually _DO_ anything great, but they want to see
> their name up in lights.
> 
> In other words, they simply want to say `our project was sponsored by 
> the `Fedora Project` a multi-million dollar `Professional Entity``
> 
> Don't worry NIT-D. Your names WILL be posted in all the mailing lists.
> With a lot of shame and embarrasment.
> 
> > As discussed over the phone, one student nominated by Linux Users' Group.
> > NIT Durgapur must be selected to be a Fedora Country Ambassador without
> any
> > probation period. The name will be informed to you as soon as you confirm
> to
> > this mail.
> 
> This part REALLY takes the cake. Apart from the fact that the there IS
> no barrier to anyone joining ambassadors (it's a 45 second process), and
> there IS no probation period, they forgot the most important part:
> 
> Ambassadors _DO_ things. Just because you are `nominated` to be an
> ambassador doesn't mean that you will accomplish everything.
> 
> They want to hold some ceremony, and announce
> `Today, xxxx xxx was announced as the official Fedora Ambassador for the
> state of xxxxx. WE are all so proud of him.....`.
> 
> If you ask me, I say we DON'T speak at this college, until every single
> `Term and Condition` is dropped.
> -- 
> Tejas Dinkar
> http://gja.in
> 
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