[Ambassadors] The weekly ambassador meetings

[Robert 'Bob' Jensen]

Fabian Affolter wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> It's a long time ago...exactly during the presentation during the FAD at
> Berlin I showed a slide (Page 7) [1].  This slide contains an overview
> of some weekly meetings.  After a short discussion about why are there
> always a lot of European ambassadors at both time (FYI 22:00 UTC is
> midnight in western europe).  Someone suggested to split the meetings.
> An European meeting at a pleasant moment...but now we can't split due to
> lack of attendance.
> 
> Since LinuxTag there were 18 meetings. 14 were canceled!
> 
> Do we still need weekly meetings?  Is it an overkill?  Is it just a
> waste of time?  Today for me it was just wasting time.  Three people
> showed up.
> 
> Are the reasons...
> 
> - I don't care what the other ambassadors do.
> - We have nothing to discuss.  I don't know what to tell.
> - South America is far away, I'm not interested in stuff from there.
> - I have other stuff to do and can't take 30 min off.
> - I live in the wrong time zone.
> 
> I guess that there is no more any need for exchanging information
> between the ambassadors about events and how stuff can be done because
> everybody have enough experience to handle it.
> 
> On the Join page [2] of the Ambassadors Project...
> 
> Step 1.  Participate in weekly meetings
> 
> Perhaps it would be a good idea to remove that step.  No meeting, no
> possibility for a participation...FAMSco, this could be a topic for your
> next meeting. For your half-yearly meeting ;-)
> 
> Just my thoughts...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Fabian
> 
> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD/FADLinuxTag2007
> [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Join
> 
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Personally I quit giving a crap about the ambassadors project and 
meetings when there was talk about throwing people out, creating a good 
ole boys club.  As it appears this happened anyhow, only people were not 
thrown out they were just alienated.  There are no events in my area of 
the US and quite honestly I do not have the resources to create one or 
travel more than an hour by car to get to one.  The heavy activity of 
European Ambassadors does not help many of us in the US and perhaps 
other parts of the world because of cultural differences.  It seams that 
the EU Ambassadors have no trouble traveling and taking time off of work 
to do something for the project, I on the other hand have a family to 
feed and a business to take care of.

Robert 'Bob' Jensen