Re-posting from my blog:
http://spevack.livejournal.com/70806.html
It's my pleasure to inform the Fedora community that our long-time LATAM
community superstar, Rodrigo Padula, has accepted a job with Red Hat's LATAM
marketing team, and will officially get his red fedora on February 2nd.
Rodrigo has been leading Fedora's event organization, community building,
and OLPC efforts in that region of the world for about 4 years now, and I've
always been impressed with his organizational skills and commitment to
Fedora and free software. I have not had the opportunity to meet Rodrigo in
person, but Greg and Dennis traveled to FISL last year and had an excellent
experience.
I'm really excited that Rodrigo has accepted this job, because it is another
step in achieving the Community Architecture team's goal of ensuring that
each region of the world has someone within Red Hat who is their primary
point of contact for Fedora and community related activities. I firmly
believe that the more we can push accountability, authority, and budget to
local regions of our community, the more successful it will be, and the
faster it will grow.
Rodrigo's hire also gives Red Hat another person in the region who can serve
as an evangelist, community builder, and open source advocate not just for
Fedora, but for the entire company. We're going to be looking to Rodrigo for
his advice and thoughts on the best time and place to organize our first
FUDCon LATAM somewhere in 2009.
Congratulations to Rodrigo on joining the Red Hat family.
--Max
Congratulation Rodrigo, it's a real pleasure to see this.
I wish you a good luck
Regards
Francesco Ugolini