On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm very very confused here.
It was already established that the original background was offensive to
the community. I insist on seeing any discussion with your organizing
committee that approved your usage of the original background text in
any event report. If there is none, I fail to understand why you used
it.
It was misunderstood by some. No offense was ever intended.
The write up is not hate.
It is about the state of affairs
Hate should be like "We hate this country ... because ... "
Your understanding of hate is misplaced.
In fact, it is about concern for the country. India is backward
because of its low score in human development index to start with.
It is lower than that of poor African countries.
The goal of the competition was to reach out to new communities.
Working within the community is not going to help in expansion.
It has been proven by different studies.
In the wfs irc discussions, the main concerns were about their
'positive perspective' of the text.
As far as the present report is concerned.... I am stating facts.
The event was approved only after it was understood, by all parties,
including *you*, that the original text would *not* stand[1]. You have
gone ahead and quite blatantly, fully aware of what you were doing,
broken this understanding. What gives?
As far as the present report is concerned.... I am stating at least
some major aspects of the event.
Since we decided to sponsor this event, I will stick by it and
request
our fund manager to reimburse you. However, you will probably not get my
vote for any events in the future. I simply don't see you respecting the
community's feedback. I don't see you considering the community at all
actually. It seems like you'll do what you want any way, in complete
disregard of what we, or even your immediate organizing team says, and I
fail to understand why Fedora should support it at all.
I am very experienced with organizing free s/w events over many years
and in every instance consensus just happened.
Here we tried to enter more difficult domains, therefore it has been
difficult. Please try and understand that.
Best
A. Mani
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