[Ambassadors] Strategical Withdraw

[Nelson Marques]

On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 15:27 -0500, inode0 wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Nelson Marques <07721 at ipam.pt> wrote:
> > I'm withdrawing from this list and from this group. After being dubbed
> > as a troll and ill-minded person, I believe my life is better without
> > this kind of stuff.
> 
> Nelson,
> 
> Having read this and now your blog post about the same events at
> 
> http://ketheriel.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/ill-minded/
> 
> I feel the need to make a couple of remarks in defense of the
> Ambassador group which in both places you cast in a negative light.
> 
> As you should know by now the person who offended you is not and has
> never been a Fedora Ambassador and is perfectly free to join the
> marketing mailing list to continue to argue with you if he wishes.
> Will you run from that group too if he does?
> 
> In your blog after explaining your heightened sensitivity regarding
> cultural matters you extrapolate this one individual's remarks into
> something you refer to as "North American ignorance." Is that an
> example of cultural sensitivity or cultural bias?
> 
> While I agree with you about the importance of using symbols
> carefully, understanding them, and choosing them wisely, I think you
> are wrong to lash out against the Ambassadors based on the actions of
> one individual who isn't an Ambassador. That makes absolutely no
> sense.
> 
> Ambassadors could learn something from this discussion as could the
> rest of the Fedora Project.
> 
> A simple mail filter could have solved your problem in this case
> without all this drama about resigning from a group based on the
> actions of someone not in that group.
> 

John,

You made sense, you pointed stuff that actually are true and right. I'll
blog something else and after that this incident is closed.
I'm still waiting for password retrieval on mailman. 

With highest esteem,
Nelson


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Nelson Marques <07721 at ipam.pt>