[Ambassadors] Goodbye FAMSCO!!

[Rodrigo Padula]

Em 12-05-2010 11:30, Paul W. Frields escreveu:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 01:13:44AM -0300, Rodrigo Padula wrote:
>    
>> Hello Guys,
>>
>> Unfortunately I am sending this email to inform that I'm leaving FAMSCO.
>>
>> I am very upset by the 0 support from Red Hat Brasil/Latin America and
>> I'm not happy with the way that decisions are being taken here.
>>
>> My relationship with some FAMSCO members also impossibility my
>> participation here.
>>
>> I had good times at FAMSCO since the fisrt election, but now I'm very
>> disappointed and unmotivated.
>>
>> So, I leave my position and I apologize for any inconvenience created.
>>
>> By now, I will stay here only as Ambassador, helping to spread Fedora in
>> my region without any special role.
>>
>> I will keep working in the Fudcon Latam, providing all support needed to
>> our local ambassadors.
>>      
> Rodrigo, I'm disappointed that you feel you're not getting the support
> you need from the part of Red Hat that's local to your area.  Max and
> I want you to be able to be candid, and we'll reach out to you offlist
> so you can do that effectively.  If we can identify and solve the
> problems you're having, the entire LATAM community can benefit.
>
>    

Hello Paul,

My main problem is with the way that Red Hat Brasil and Latam is dealing 
with the community. We didn't receive any significant support in the 
region from they, from years!!

Since 2005 all my efforts was applied here based on support received 
from Fedora Project and Red Hat USA.

Red Hat Brasil is selling millions of dollars by year to the Brazilian 
government and is helping us with nothing!

I can't stay here working for free for a company that are interested 
only in suck money from my government without any support to the local 
community.... as a Brazilian and as a patriot, it isn't acceptable!

We are opening doors for Red Hat in Latin America for years and we see 
the doors being slammed in our face!

The other problem is the way that Fedora is going in Latam, with a wrong 
focus and wrong meritocracy model! I tryed to stay at FAMSCO, but is 
very complicated to be in a meeting where I can't send one word without 
some people start a big fight from nothing!

Despite the growing use of free software in the world, the fedora is 
losing power . We're losing users and contributos to projects like 
Ubuntu, CentOS and OpenSuse.

I think we need to review many ideas, focus and make a decision! We will 
continue to focus only on the Red Hat Engineering decisions or will work 
to better serve our community and users?

In my opinion, Fedora is out of focus! We are not for servers, we are 
not for Desktop, we are not for production machines, so we are not able 
to be used by a large quantity of users seriously! It's very complicated 
to do a lecture in big conferences talking about the Fedora Focus.

I'm still here, helping as an ambassador and as a collaborator in the 
region, but now prioritizing other projects like GNOME and Mozilla.

I will not answer more to that topic, because in some minutes someone 
will start another fight!

Best regards!

-- 
Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira
http://www.rodrigopadula.com
http://twitter.com/rodrigopadula

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