Actually only Fedora has its Ambassadoring project, yeah, the other ones use to roganize events etc... without having a specific project.
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<div>As i know the following project use those systems:<br>
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<div>- Ubuntu: there is an internet form where everybody can ask for CDs (for events more than 1)</div>
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<div>- Gnome: there is (only for Gnome contributors) a box that you can request for a specific event and then give them back.</div>
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<div>Generally people send email to pojects' leaders, local contributors etc...</div>
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<div>This is what I know about the other project, probably someone in the list will know more solutions.</div>
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<div>Regards</div>
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<div>Francesco Ugolini<br>
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-----Messaggio originario-----<br>
Da: Claus Reheis <polytropolis@gmail.com><br>
A: fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com<br>
Inviati: Mar 30 Ott 2007 18:03<br>
Oggetto: Re: R: R: [Ambassadors] The weekly ambassador meetings<br>
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<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>Hi!
Are there similar projects like the Fedora Ambassadors in other
distributions? (OpenSuse, Ubuntu...)
How do they handle the communication?
Maybe we should take a look how things are done there!
Greetings,
Claus
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 11:46 -0400, <a href="mailto:francescougolini@aol.it">francescougolini@aol.it</a> wrote:
> First of all i never proposed to fire people (i hope someone has
> understood this thing) and it wouldn't a proposal but a topic to start
> a serious discussion over the future of the project. I don't know
> where you have read the word "fire", "trown out" etc.... but as you
> know i want to help people not to create problems and frustrations or
> to force people doing something: I never thought to remove people
> from the project.
>
>
> And, please, stop this past (closed) discussion (see the Thomas
> Chung's Message to M-L for more information).
I am happy to do so!
>
>
>
>
>
> I think the IRC weekly meetings are one of the place you can
> communicate with Ambassadors, but there are a lot of other tools like
> M-L and Ambassadors' EMAIL (in many ambassadors' wikis).
>
>
> As happened for the last Italian Linux Day many contributors, that
> weren't ambassadors, ask me for CDs. DVDs and similar stuffs, and
> personally i've tried to complete all the request.
>
>
> I f you need help you may contact one of you country's ambassador
> asking him to help you not only asking him materials but what you
> want. At the end we are here to do those things.
>
>
>
> Hoping i've answered (completely) to your questions and staying
> avaiable for any other ones
>
>
> Francesco Ugolini
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Messaggio originario-----
> Da: Claus Reheis <<a href="mailto:polytropolis@gmail.com">polytropolis@gmail.com</a>>
> A: <a href="mailto:fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com">fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com</a>
> Inviati: Mar 30 Ott 2007 14:21
> Oggetto: Re: R: [Ambassadors] The weekly ambassador meetings
>
> Dear Francesco Ugolini!
>
> In the year 2006 was a small Linux Day in Tirol/Austria!
> Because I am am big fan of the Fedora distribution and the lack of
> any Fedora presence on that event, I thought about doing some
> advertisement for the Fedora Project!
> There was no way to get some nice Fedora stuff, without joining the
> Fedora Ambassador Project!
> So I did that and I do not regret it.
>
>
> But the meetings are at times, very hard for me to attend!
> I work in a hotel and at (14:00 UTC) 16:00 I have to work all the time.
> Sure I have a day off, but that day changes every season.
> The meetings at (22:00 UTC) 0:00 are very late, especially when you have
> to get up early...
>
> I am sure there are also other people in my situation!
> We have our lives, our obligations, our work and our families!
> So why do we not think about a way to communicate where people can
> attend when and if they want?
> A Ambassador forum where we communicate via threads independent from
> time,location and situation!
>
> If there are IRC meetings every month, and the meetings are hold on
> times I can attend, I will attend.
>
> And your proposal in the past to fire people from the Ambassador
> project, is imho just unconscionable.
>
> There are people like me, not involved in IT, wo have to work for their
> life, their family, attend their friends and little rest of the time
> to their hobbies!Maybe one of this hobby is Linux/Fedora.
> So if they advertise Fedora to everyone who is interested in Linux,
> talk about it and even go to local events and represent the Fedora
> Project, imho that is enought to be an ambassador!
>
> I am one of this kind and if you wish to fire someone, start with me.
>
> Claus Reheis
>
> On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 06:09 -0400, <a href="mailto:francescougolini@aol.it">francescougolini@aol.it</a> wrote:
> > Nobody was trow out: we had a discussion and people said clearly they
> > disagree completely with this proposal.
> >
> > So i think it couldn't really help the project trying to speculate
> > using obsolete arguments: we have just to do what you want (freely) to
> > do.
> >
> > Yes, yo may disagree with my idea, but i'm not an imperor (i'm an
> > ambassador like you), i've just prosed some (costructive) discussions
> > and, as you have seen, a lot of people join those ones and take their
> > position (and they won).
> >
> > Another point. We don't want to make comparison between ambassadors,
> > countries etc...: this isn't the right place and we know each person
> > has different possibilities.
> >
> > So, I hope you will think about those words.
> >
> > We haven't fire anybody, we don't want to give a prize for the most
> > active ambassadors' Country but we want people who are not angried,
> > unsatisfied or just disappointed.
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Francesco Ugolini
> >
> >
> > -----Messaggio originario-----
> > Da: Robert 'Bob' Jensen <<a href="mailto:marketing-list@fedoralinks.org">marketing-list@fedoralinks.org</a>>
> > A: <a href="mailto:fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com">fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com</a>
> > Inviati: Lun 29 Ott 2007 18:25
> > Oggetto: Re: [Ambassadors] The weekly ambassador meetings
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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] <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD/FADLinuxTag2007" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD/FADLinuxTag2007</a>
> >
> > > [2] <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Join" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Join</a>
> >
> > >
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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
> >
> >
> >
> >
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