Fabian Affolter wrote:
Hi all,
It's a long time ago...exactly during the presentation during the FAD at
Berlin I showed a slide (Page 7) [1]. This slide contains an overview
of some weekly meetings. After a short discussion about why are there
always a lot of European ambassadors at both time (FYI 22:00 UTC is
midnight in western europe). Someone suggested to split the meetings.
An European meeting at a pleasant moment...but now we can't split due to
lack of attendance.
Since LinuxTag there were 18 meetings. 14 were canceled!
Do we still need weekly meetings? Is it an overkill? Is it just a
waste of time? Today for me it was just wasting time. Three people
showed up.
Are the reasons...
- I don't care what the other ambassadors do.
- We have nothing to discuss. I don't know what to tell.
- South America is far away, I'm not interested in stuff from there.
- I have other stuff to do and can't take 30 min off.
- I live in the wrong time zone.
I guess that there is no more any need for exchanging information
between the ambassadors about events and how stuff can be done because
everybody have enough experience to handle it.
On the Join page [2] of the Ambassadors Project...
Step 1. Participate in weekly meetings
Perhaps it would be a good idea to remove that step. No meeting, no
possibility for a participation...FAMSco, this could be a topic for your
next meeting. For your half-yearly meeting ;-)
Just my thoughts...
Regards,
Fabian
[1]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD/FADLinuxTag2007
[2]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Join
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Personally I quit giving a crap about the ambassadors project and
meetings when there was talk about throwing people out, creating a good
ole boys club. As it appears this happened anyhow, only people were not
thrown out they were just alienated. There are no events in my area of
the US and quite honestly I do not have the resources to create one or
travel more than an hour by car to get to one. The heavy activity of
European Ambassadors does not help many of us in the US and perhaps
other parts of the world because of cultural differences. It seams that
the EU Ambassadors have no trouble traveling and taking time off of work
to do something for the project, I on the other hand have a family to
feed and a business to take care of.
Robert 'Bob' Jensen