ambassadors "conflict of interest"

[Michael Tiemann]

Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> Please accept my apologies if this is not the proper place to ask.
>
> I've never read anything against this, so I'm wondering if it was ever
> brought up at all.
>
> Are Fedora ambassadors allowed to also be <put your alternate distro
> name here> ambassadors?
>   
I think it's problematic.  I think that Fedora ambassadors should 
high-value, trusted opinion-leaders, and should embody the energy and 
excitement of the Fedora project.  Somebody who tries to act as a higher 
authority of why one would want to use Distribution X or Y for a given 
situation, instead of encouraging people outside the community or inside 
of it to make Fedora the best distribution for the task in question, are 
not being true ambassadors.

I see no conflict whatsoever for somebody to be both a Fedora Ambassador 
and also an ambassador for GNOME or KDE or Emacs or PostgreSQL or MySQL, 
etc.  But I think that somebody who has a fistful of distribution 
ambassadorships isn't providing the kind of differentiated boost to 
Fedora that I'd expect to come from a Fedora Ambassador.

M

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