sorry
you are the best ;)

2007/2/17, Francesco Ugolini <francesco.ugolini@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@fedoraproject.org
> <mailto:francesco.ugolini@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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