[Ambassadors] leaving Fedora Ambassador's project

[Patrick W. Barnes]

On Friday 16 February 2007, Robert Whetsel wrote:
> I feel as I did not get to know many of you as well as I would have liked.
> Part of my leaving is that a lot of us do not really understand the
> responsibilities and duties of a Ambassador, let alone what is the big
> picture of Linux and the concepts open source.
>

Your exit will be a great loss to this project.

It is very unfortunate that this project has fallen to an almost total lack of 
focus.  Original objectives have been ignored; the same, flawed ideas have 
been repeated.

Time has prevented me from participating at the level I would like.  It has 
been difficult to continue delivering my ideas to this group.  I would very 
much like to see the Ambassadors project succeed, but making that happen will 
take vision from both leadership and new contributors.

We have both seasoned contributors and new faces that are still looking for 
the next step participating or lurking in this list.  The voices of 
experience would do well to look for and engage the new people, to guide them 
in becoming more active contributors.  The infrastructure that this group now 
has took time and effort to develop.  A great deal of thought has been put 
into how things work, and now we're talking about making haphazard changes 
without understanding their consequences.  Take a step back and consider 
whether or not these changes are really in the best interests of the 
long-term goals of this project.  The effort now being put into making 
changes could be put to much better use achieving the goals of the project.

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