[Ambassadors] next EMEA Ambassadors IRC meeting

Ahmed El Gamil ahmed at manhag.org
Wed Jul 15 18:27:49 UTC 2009


Thanks Max for your efforts ..

I am AhmedElGamil from Egypt, just got my ambassador membership, so i will
be attending next meeting, so if you think there are some documentation to
help me explore how meetings and topics discussed go on, i will be glad.
and sorry for the no one stepping up for the meeting coordination thing !


On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Pierros Papadeas <ppapadeas at gmail.com>wrote:

> Sorry for the follow-up :)
>
> I created the next meeting's page [1]
> and updated the generic meeting page [2]
> just to have something for starters :)
>
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings/2009-07-22
> [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Meetings#Next_Meeting
>
> Pierros
>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Pierros Papadeas<ppapadeas at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I could handle the next EMEA meeting. I am saying it, because no one
> > volunteered :) and I think it is quite important to be done.
> >
> > Is there already an agenda? Shall we keep up with the every-other-week
> > schedule and make this an thematic one?
> >
> > Pierros
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Max Spevack<mspevack at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I've been organizing the EMEA Ambassadors IRC meetings for a while now,
> and
> >> while I am certainly going to continue to attend them, I wonder if
> perhaps
> >> someone else within our EMEA community would like to take a turn at
> putting
> >> together the agendas and leading the meetings.
> >>
> >> We're due to have our next one pretty soon (probably should be next
> >> Wednesday) but I will be in the USA all next week and unable to attend
> that
> >> meeting.
> >>
> >> Seems like it might be a good time to let a volunteer in the community
> step
> >> up and take charge.
> >>
> >> These meetings represent an opportunity to have our Ambassadors across
> the
> >> region stay in communication with each other, discuss budget issues and
> >> resource issues, and also coordinate their efforts, so that we can feel
> like
> >> a larger team and not a few pockets of people in different countries.
> >>
> >> Anyone want to step up and make next week's meeting happen?
> >>
> >> There have also been a few requests to hold EMEA meetings
> every-other-week
> >> -- one meeting per month focusing on events and logistics, and the other
> >> focusing on one specific question or project that is important to the
> >> region.
> >>
> >> It's obvious that I haven't had the time to make that happen, but with
> some
> >> community leadership from Ambassadors who have things they would like to
> >> discuss, it easily could.
> >>
> >> It's important to me to make sure that we continue to keep our core
> group of
> >> EMEA ambassadors strong, while also growing new leadership and
> contributions
> >> throughout this very large region.
> >>
> >> In Egypt, for example, we've got a growing team of Ambassadors who are
> doing
> >> fantastic work, and I hope we can include them in our EMEA meetings and
> >> discussions more than we have in the past (which has just been me
> sending
> >> them resources).  I'd like to cut myself out as the middle man and
> continue
> >> to grow a team of volunteers in the region who are all helping each
> other
> >> out.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Max
> >>
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