[Ambassadors] Brief Report on Poster Competition

[Jon]

I do not appreciate reading things like:

*India is a backward country in which majority of the people are illiterate
and most of those who are literate have no sex education. Most of the
people are brain-washed by the decadent patriarchy that has merged itself
with cultural, religious and business practices at the cost of basic human
values. Even the country's laws are sub-human in nature.*

The first sentence alone has three negatives opinions about India.
The rest is just angry ranting.


Fedora project should focus on positive statements!

Here is how I would rewrite the first sentence:
"India is a large country where many people are illiterate, and have little
or no sex education."

I would recommend citing reputable new agencies or a peer-reviewed paper
with statistics backing up the so-called facts about literacy and sex
education.

Honestly the 2nd and 3rd sentence should be dropped, as they resemble
ranting angry opinion.



You can do better!

-Jon Disnard
fas: parasense
irc: masta






On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:15 AM, A. Mani <a.mani.cms at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I'm very very confused here.
> >
> > It was already established that the original background was offensive to
> > the community. I insist on seeing any discussion with your organizing
> > committee that approved your usage of the original background text in
> > any event report. If there is none, I fail to understand why you used
> > it.
> >
>
> It was misunderstood by some. No offense was ever intended.
>
> The write up is not hate.
> It is about the state of affairs
>
> Hate should be like "We hate this country ... because ... "
> Your understanding of hate is misplaced.
>
> In fact, it is about concern for the country. India is backward
> because of its low score in human development index to start with.
> It is lower than that of poor African countries.
>
> The goal of the competition was to reach out to new communities.
> Working within the community is not going to help in expansion.
> It has been proven by different studies.
>
> In the wfs irc discussions, the main concerns were about their
> 'positive perspective' of the text.
>
>
> As far as the present report is concerned.... I am stating facts.
>
> > The event was approved only after it was understood, by all parties,
> > including *you*, that the original text would *not* stand[1]. You have
> > gone ahead and quite blatantly, fully aware of what you were doing,
> > broken this understanding. What gives?
> >
>
>
> As far as the present report is concerned.... I am stating at least
> some major aspects of the event.
>
>
>
> > Since we decided to sponsor this event, I will stick by it and request
> > our fund manager to reimburse you. However, you will probably not get my
> > vote for any events in the future. I simply don't see you respecting the
> > community's feedback. I don't see you considering the community at all
> > actually. It seems like you'll do what you want any way, in complete
> > disregard of what we, or even your immediate organizing team says, and I
> > fail to understand why Fedora should support it at all.
>
>
> I am very experienced with organizing free s/w events over many years
> and in every instance consensus just happened.
>
> Here we tried to enter more difficult domains, therefore it has been
> difficult. Please try and understand that.
>
>
> Best
>
> A. Mani
>
>
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-Jon
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