Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
There was an interesting request for Fedora media by a german
university and this request was approved by the last FAMSCo members,
but unfortunately it wasn't shipped and neither my email to FAMSco
wasn't replied. In the end, we lost a very good opportunity for fedora
marketing and at the same time those who participated were left
behind. Since then ThomasChung is doing a for great job and I
congratulate him for that.
However, to prevent this next time ...
I agree that if an individual was approved for media by FAMSco and they
didn't receive it then that is a problem. However, shouldn't we give
the current FAMSco group time to "prove" themselves before we declare
the process as not working? You've already said Thomas Chung is doing a
great job - I think we need to have faith in who the Fedora Ambassadors
elected.
we (the FAD attendees) have come
to a "possible" solution which might be, "elect one FAMSco member per
region/continent". This FAMSCo member will be elected from the
ambassadors from his/her region only and as the same time will be
entitled to give priority to the requests of his/her ambassadors.
I don't see electing one FAMSco member from each region as solving
anything. We want a FAMSco that is active and makes fair decisions on
matters that are their responsibility. *Every* media/reimbursement
request should be looked at objectively by the entire committee
regardless of what country a committee member is from.
Looking at the last election there were only eleven nominations. In the
end I think the result ended up with a mix of countries - Italy,
Belgium, the US and Brazil - even using our current process.
Elect people based on their contributions and effort for the
Ambassadors, not solely on their country of origin.
--Jeffrey