[Ambassadors] Red Hat's investments (was Re: Going passive)

Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us
Mon Nov 22 23:36:56 UTC 2010


On Thursday, November 11, 2010 12:48:38 am Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 11/10/2010 09:32 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, den 09.11.2010, 19:19 -0500 schrieb Jared K. Smith:
> >> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at kanarip.com> 
wrote:
> >>> Luckily, examples exist of people being appointed in important
> >>> positions, and making it very, very clear only U.S. citizens are
> >>> eligible, aside from the issue of Red Hat, Inc. ignoring EMEA.
> >> 
> >> This isn't entirely true.  Appointed seats on the Fedora Board, for
> >> example, can come from anywhere.
> > 
> > Theoretically. Practically AFAIK only 3 out of 28 (former) board members
> > are not from NA and the only appointed person was Dimitris IIRC.
> > 
> > I doubt this represents a worldwide community.
> 
> Not sure of these numbers.  I am not from NA and was a appointed member
> on the first public Fedora Board.
> 
> Rahul

I happen to currently live in North America but I am from Australia, and was 
voted twice onto the board.  I also happen to have a great interest in LATAM. 

Dennis
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