I copied this mail to Amabassador list<br><br>To all FAMSCO members,<br><br>I am really disappointed about your poor decision. <br><br>You can't control our local decisions as we have freedom in putting the person who represent from Sri Lanka.<br>
No representation is better than sending such a person.<br><br><br>It was NOT a communication mistake!<br><br><br>Contribution is not about the how much you make noise on Fedora list or IRC.<br><br>I am really disappointed about your poor decision and I have been working for several year for Fedora (more than 5years).<br>
We have done much work but never fool the community. and<br><br>If I was him I wont come back to the election.<br><br>Seems, I should think about my Fedora contribution again.<br><br><br>To other members:<br><br>We kindly asked to withdraw Sri Lankan Ambassadors own nomination as there was a bad thing happened in here (LK).<br>
But now he or some one else put his name again.<br>We (Sri Lankan community talked with some of the Fedorians privately but I think its time to make this public.<br>(sorry about that) <br><br>You have full freedom to do what ever you prefer at the election but...<br>
Please please....think before cast your vote. <br><br><br>Bye for now. (I am leaving from FUDcon)<br><br>Danishka<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Neville A. Cross <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:neville@taygon.com">neville@taygon.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 12:57 -0400, Jon Stanley wrote:<br>
> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 11:15 AM, <<a href="mailto:neville@taygon.com">neville@taygon.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > At FAmSCo meeting[0] we discussed about this situation. The agreement is<br>
> > that there is no reason to stop one Fedora Ambassador to run for a FAmSCo<br>
> > election. It is to the voters to choose who will represent them better. In<br>
> > any case, if we have more candidates that will better represent the<br>
> > community in general, we all be benefited from that. If some one think<br>
> > that can do it better than any of the current candidates, there is still<br>
> > time for nominations.<br>
><br>
> I think that this is good general advice (speaking for myself,<br>
> obviously). In the past, we've had people running for various spots in<br>
> the project that I thought would not serve the community well, and I<br>
> let my voice be heard with my votes, not trying to quash their<br>
> candidacy. Reading through this, I think that this is just another<br>
> such situation.<br>
><br>
> However, I'm not quite certain what the "fraud" below refers to. It<br>
> sounded to me like he held a poorly organized FAD (and largely<br>
> undocumented, for lack of a camera, which I can't incredibly fault him<br>
> for) in Sri Lanka (which is one of the reasons that FAD's exist, BTW -<br>
> it's a mechanism to take small, measured risk. If it fails in it's<br>
> objectives, we're not out a ton of money)<br>
><br>
> Is there anything specific you'd like the Board to do, or is this just<br>
> more of an FYI?<br>
<br>
<br>
</div></div>Yes, the intention was to made the board aware of the situation.<br>
<br>
Fraud is a strong word. Now most people involved has level down to<br>
mis-communication. I see all of this as part of a learning process.<br>
<br>
Best regards<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
--<br>
Neville A. Cross<br>
<a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yn1v</a><br>
Linux User #: 473217<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Danishka Navin<br><a href="http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com</a><br><a href="http://twitter.com/danishkanavin" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/danishkanavin</a><br>
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