[Ambassadors] Promoting other distributions and conflict of interest

[Peter Czanik]

Hi,

On 02/25/2015 08:39 AM, Cesar Pinto wrote:
>
> I find myself agreeing with Kushal here.
>
> Being an ambassador implies a sense of "special loyalty" to the 
> distribution and playing a role as an advocate for the overall success 
> of the project.
>
> For one of "our" advocates to also be an advocate for our biggest 
> competitors might put the loyalty aspect into question.
>
> But then again, maybe I am wrong?
>

I'm both a Fedora and openSUSE ambassador. When I'm representing Fedora, 
I advocate Fedora. When I wear my openSUSE hat I advocate openSUSE. When 
I'm not officially representing Fedora or openSUSE at an event, I route 
people to the distro which covers their needs best (including Fedora 
(and related), openSUSE (and related), Debian (&derivatives), Gentoo and 
even FreeBSD).

It's more important to convert people from the "dark side" to open 
source than to a specific distro which disappoints them as it does not 
meet their expectations.

Bye,

Peter Czanik (CzP)
BalaBit IT Security / syslog-ng upstream
http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/ <http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/>
https://twitter.com/PCzanik
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