[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Right on Brother, Right on.
Pat McKelvey
pmckelvey at zoomtown.com
Sat Mar 18 21:23:09 UTC 2006
David:
I just saw your comments about ambassadorship in the newsletter. I
agree completely. I have said so at the last ambassador's meeting on
the 16 and was loudly ignored. There may be too many competing agendas
in this situation.
I see being an ambassador as being the personal face on Linux (fedora or
other). I do not feel like I want to be the unpaid sales staff of any
of the various companies that have paid staff. Let the paid staff go to
the Big Conferences and Man or Woman the Booths. That kind of thing
gets old quick. I'll work, one on one, with the local users group. I'm
trying to find a way to smuggle Linux into the Cincinnati School System,
which is all Windows now. I'm working on the Cincinnati Computer Coop
which rebuilds computers for schools and non-profit organizations. I
may end up creating a intro to Linux course for them. I have made up
the contents of three college courses, at the same time as teaching
them. Doing one course should be easy, just so long as it doesn't get
into the policy part of SELinux.
I agree with your voice of sanity. Your ideas are sound and let's see
if we can't stir up some more support for the one-on-one approach. I
won't "dis", as my daughter says, anyone using another distro.
Being a licensed Professional Engineer, having personally designed and
made an integrated circuit as my senior EE project, having taught
College for 3 years, been on the ANSI 70B committee (National Electrical
Code - Maintenance) for 2 years, being a Lapsed MCNE, and having 2 pages
of computer courses on my resume, I can give expert testimony in a Court
downtown, but I can't get heard over the noise about "getting schwag".
I want to get back to helping people learn about Linux and all the neat
things that can be done on it. How much opportunity this open operating
system offers, someone who is curious, the chance to learn and grow. I
believe that the world needs more people who want to tinker and learn.
I want to be in on that excitement and growing. I want to pass along
what I have learned in 20 years in computers to those who are interested.
As I believe I said at the Ambassador's meeting, my drawer is full
enough of T-shirts. Perhaps being of Irish extraction, my temper gets
the better of me. I probably need to go and have a last green beer left
over from St. Patrick's Day (I'm Buddhist).
Pat
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