On 05/20/2014 06:39 PM, Onyeibo Oku wrote:
I still don't understand why people dump a summary of their
grievances
on the ambassador list and walk away, then leave members -- who never
heard the a tiny-bit of their debates -- to wonder what went wrong.
Usually by my observation all those years of ambassadors activity, the
underlying cause of ambassador leaving the project is due to some
internal ambassador power struggle relevant to their region. Who did do
or did not not do what, who showed up for which events, who did not, why
did he get swag while I did not so fourth and so on, general petty
squabble like that.
I for example have had no problem spreading the good word of Fedora all
those years without having to do so with the assistant of swag and other
promoting material.
Only once have I requested and be given ambassadors swag stickers, cd's
etc which I picked in BRNO when I happened to be there for an systemd
hackfest and the reason I have not engage as much as I could with the
ambassador community is that I have been busy building up and
participating in QA as well as being responsible for and handling the
most invasive change in the project history since it's inception, the
init replacement but that does not mean I have not been observing what's
happening there along with everything else in the community.
One of the underlying reasons of my departure realization of the false
image the project has been projecting to the outside world and to the
individuals participating in it where amongst other things the project
is said to be free while infact it is being systematically oppressed by
it's sponsor Red Hat and communities contributed being discarded and or
put to disadvantage if they aren't in the direction or the benefit of
Red Hat.
I can give you several historic reference to that oppression or simply
others can chime in like Christoph but here you can see that oppression
taking place in it's purest form [1] so things that I once thought where
within my power to change are not and those things will never change and
they are most certainly not changing with this alleged new direction
taking place.
I devoted 8+ years of my free time to the project and made sacrifices
along the way more then most people would do for the project because I
was under the illusion of what it stood for even after I got warned by
good and valuable community contributors like the members of the Fedora
unity, who they themselves had been bitten by the same mistakes. An
history of the project that our benevolent dictators want to bury in the
past so the can continue to exploit the community for their own gain.
I can tell you dont spread the word or participate in Fedora participate
participate in Arch or Korora or any other distro or project instead
where your contribution are valued for what they since it's driven by
individuals that actually understand what community means or if you
cannot or will not represent fedora for with what it actually represents
so people that come contribute to it do so knowing they are Red Hat's
free labour workforce but if you are like me you would ignore that
warning and blindly follow the Fedora path which is why people leave
others wondering what went wrong because if they are like me they have
to figure this out or reaching this conclusion themselves...
JBG
1.
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-January/194925.html