[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Right on Brother, Right on.

Clair fedora at freehold.no-ip.info
Sun Mar 19 17:20:16 UTC 2006


On Sunday 19 March 2006 17:13, Alex Maier wrote:
> On 3/18/06, Pat McKelvey <pmckelvey at zoomtown.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Pat, all--
>
> If you want to bring up a topic in a meeting, please add a schedule
> entry on the wiki: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Schedule
> You are guaranteed to have your time in the discussion.

But that's only for events.

> However, to do justice to folks who already do "un-events," let me
> mention briefly at least some of such initiatives which are already
> well on the way:
>
> Chitlesh Goorah with his Kadischi and Fedora Libraries initiatives
> David Nalley promoting Kadischi
> Rahul Sundaram and Francesco Ugolini building an interactive tour of
> the new release
> Rahul Sundaram helping create and publish presentations for Ambassadors
> Pablo Barrera and others pursuing their Fedora in the Streets project
> finally Thomas Chung and I putting together a video contest to promote
> free media format support in Fedora --

Only two of these are ambassador related.

> This is just a quick selection of the initiatives that come to mind --
> there are more, just look through the list archives.

...which 99% of is noise and should go to marketing.

> I understand your concern that Ambassadors are concentrating on the
> event too much, but events is almost like a default option, but all of
> us can and should come up with other ways to represent Fedora to the
> people out there.

You're confusing "Not events" with "Marketing".


Clair




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