[Ambassadors] [Fwd: Re: Meeting minutes of the FAD]

[Gerold]

it seems that Thorsten cann't send directly :-(

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --------
>  Von: Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora(a)leemhuis.info&gt;
>  An: Gerold Kassube <gerold(a)lugd.org&gt;
>  Kopie: Fedora-Ambassadors <fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com&gt;,
>  Discussions on expanding the Fedora user base
>  <fedora-marketing-list(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  Betreff: Re: Meeting minutes of the FAD
>  Datum: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 21:39:27 +0100
>  
>  Hi All!
>  
>  Gerold Kassube schrieb:
>  > the last weekend, we had our first FAD (== Fedora Ambassador Meeting) in
>  > EMEA.
>  > We had nice and productive days for the Fedora Ambassador Project and we
>  > proudly present to you what we have done and dicussed.
>  > 
>  > All information which we like to announce can be found at
>  > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD/PassedFADs
>  
>  I was invited hearty to the FAD, but I could not visit it due to private
>  matters. But Gerold asked me to look trough the posted docs and give a
>  short feedback to the list, so here I am:
>  
>  "Ambassadors from Red Hat should show more commitment to the Fedora
>  ambassadors project" -> I agree mostly -- especially in the beginning
>  and in countries/areas where a local group of Ambassadors is not yet
>  working properly that's needed until the baby steps are done and a group
>  has grown up. Yeah, I know, that's often quite some work. BTW, the
>  german ambassadors seems to be a good example where a bit of Red Hat
>  involvement helped a lot.
>  
>  "dying Fedora Weekly Reports" -- that would be sad, I liked the idea,
>  the format and the content a lot, but I have no time to help there :-/ .
>  Why can't we merge fedoranews.org and the weekly reports? That would be
>  a step in the right direction. Sure, the stuff from fedoranews.org can
>  write about nvidia, ati or 3rd party add-on repos. But most of the stuff
>  that written there currently isn't like that and would be fine for
>  fedoraproject.org afaics. fedoranews.org could continue with reporting
>  the stuff that is forbidden for fedoraproject.org (as a add-on or
>  something like that). And ahte weekly reports need to be annouced
>  properly...
>  
>  "Gerold: There should be better communication with leading departments
>  of different projects to other ambassadors" -- Agreed, we all (Core,
>  Extras, marketing, ambassadors, ...) don't talk enough with each other.
>  I think we need a fedora-project mailinglist (or something like that)
>  where we can discuss such stuff more together. Stuff like
>  https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2006-November/msg0003...
>  could be discussed there, too. At the same time need to get rid of some
>  other lists and put some serious thoughts info a
>  mailinglist-cleanup/reordering. Or morph fedora-maintainers into
>  fedora-contributors and open it for all fedora-contributors.
>  
>  "there should be no global vote for FAMSCo, but vote per region." ->
>  related, not that important and just FYI: there was the plan in
>  fedora-extras to get contributors more involved by letting them vote on
>  important stuff and not only on a committee. But that's just a rough
>  idea for the long term. http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/civs/ could
>  be a help there if we don't want to maintain the voting mechanism ourselfs.
>  
>  "Ambassadors Mailing List closed to non-ambassadors but archives opened"
>  -- why not a readonly variant just like FAB uses -- reading the archives
>  trough the mailman web-interface or by downloading mboxes sucks.
>  
>  "Joerg: There was recently press contact demands and german ambassadors
>  helped." -- we really should have local contacts for the press
>  documented properly in the wiki as that quite important IMHO.
>  
>  CU
>  thl