Dear friends,
first of all. I am in no way worried (or concerned) about the africa
expansion of Fedora Project.
I believe from my heart, we will raise, develop and foster a great
thing, based on freedom, inside africa.
In my humble opinion;
IT IS:
- inside EMEA
- an effort to spread the word
- a temporary task force to bootstrap
- to teach how to fish instead of giving the fish
IT IS NOT:
- whether special or not, a governed group inside Fedora Project
- using its own infrastructure, whether logical, virtual or physical
- isolating itself
If YOU feel that this is wrong, then simply STAND UP and DO what you
think is right.
As many of you may already now, following a recent Ambassadors EMEA
meeting we decided to focus our efforts on the Africa region too.
Right, we have decided this in EMEA meetings.
Democratically.
I feel like I need to make some remarks though. EMEA region is a
region that is used by Fedora Project for organization purposes. There
is a reason to have uniform tools and processes within EMEA region,
and that is to make sure everyone has what he needs to act and not to
create fragmentation in decision making and planning-organizing.
Wrong.
We have the same tools. We are not fragmented.
EMEA focusing on africa.
EMEA-Africa meeting should serve a temporary role in order to help
Africa Ambassadors to know each other and help us recognise their
needs. Ambassadors meeting page [1] is not reflecting this idea and I
am worried that this could cause fragmentation.
Absolutely wrong.
We are bootstrapping. That is not a standard operating procedure.
Once bootstraping is down to a satisfying amount, we merge back
into EMEA, to have everything on standard procedures operating.
Moreover I am suggesting that a creation of an Africa SIG could
promote best the interests of the Africa Initiative [...]
If YOU feel so, then STAND UP and DO.
If you would have listened carefully the last four weeks, you would
know, what we are doing there and that your suggestions make no
sense in the state of bootstrapping.
Finally, I would like everyone on Africa to know that I am *totally*
supporting our focused efforts for expansion in their region and this
email is simply trying to find/suggest the *best* way of doing so :)
In my humble opinion, it would be best if you could support the recent
developments instead of turning the ship in another direction, which
most people don't understand.
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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / with kind regards,
Sascha Thomas Spreitzer
http://spreitzer.name/
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sspreitzer
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