[Ambassadors] How to be a Mentor?

[Viji V Nair]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Viji V Nair <viji at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Onyeibo Oku <twohotis at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:17 -0500, "inode0" <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Viji V Nair <viji at fedoraproject.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi
>>> >
>>> > I wanted to be an ambassador (I was one of them and removed as a part
>>> > of "India Cleanup"), but my mentor from India needs 6 months to
>>> > promote me, according to him my works are not official. -
>>> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Viji_V_Nair
>>
>> Oh I see, you have links to personal community builds (packages) on your
>> fedora wiki page.  And as you stated there, they're not directly related
>> to fedora.  Is this right? Is it not suggestive and confusing? ... you
>> may have sincere motives but lines like that can mean anything to
>> anybody. They may be less misleading on your personal website or your
>> blog.
>
> Agreed, those are not directly related to fedora. Please understand
> that most of the people using fedora runs "many community stuff" on
> top of it, not only fedora shipped packages. I know many organizations
> chose ubuntu because they ships may apps which fedora does not, eg
> Eucalyptus.
>
> I am here trying to promote fedora with some additional community
> stuff, like PVFS2, reiser4 etc. We are all here to promote FOSS and
> Fedora, I believe.
>
>>
>>> > Because of these new rules my requested to other groups like
>>> > "Marketing Group" etc are also on hold.
>>> >
>>> > I am disappointed....
>>>
>>
>> Maybe this thread should be discussed in-depth on an agreed freenode
>> channel (and at an agreed time). Its beginning to acquire some
>> share/toll percentage on the mailing list.

sure, we shall invite all the members.

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