[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Right on Brother, Right on.

[Alex Maier]

On 3/18/06, Pat McKelvey <pmckelvey at zoomtown.com> wrote:
> I just saw your comments about ambassadorship in the newsletter.  I
> agree completely.  I have said so at the last ambassador's meeting on
> the 16 and was loudly ignored.  There may be too many competing agendas
> in this situation.

Pat, all--

If you want to bring up a topic in a meeting, please add a schedule
entry on the wiki: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Schedule
You are guaranteed to have your time in the discussion.

A quick aside: as our meetings are well-attended, we have to stick to
rules like that so the meetings are kept to a healthy level of noise
:)


However, to do justice to folks who already do "un-events," let me
mention briefly at least some of such initiatives which are already
well on the way:

Chitlesh Goorah with his Kadischi and Fedora Libraries initiatives
David Nalley promoting Kadischi
Rahul Sundaram and Francesco Ugolini building an interactive tour of
the new release
Rahul Sundaram helping create and publish presentations for Ambassadors
Pablo Barrera and others pursuing their Fedora in the Streets project
finally Thomas Chung and I putting together a video contest to promote
free media format support in Fedora --

This is just a quick selection of the initiatives that come to mind --
there are more, just look through the list archives.

I understand your concern that Ambassadors are concentrating on the
event too much, but events is almost like a default option, but all of
us can and should come up with other ways to represent Fedora to the
people out there.

So please add your question/topic to the schedule and let us discuss
how the Ambassadors project can support initiatives other than events
in our next meeting.

Thank you,
Alex