On Tuesday 10 August 2010 22:24:02 S.Kemter wrote:
Hello,
so its now time to respond to that,
First of all, I'm very glad to see so many people enthusiastic to discuss ambassador stuff, and I want to thank Carlos for leading the meeting this past week. I've kept quiet to let you all speak up and enjoy the ability to offer your inputs.
One thing I want to say, please don't double-post to marketing and ambassdor mailing lists. If it is about ambassadors, keep it on the ambassador list. The marketing list is for general openSUSE marketing topics.
point here as I requested the ambassador list it wasnt to have a place for discussions about ambassadors, it was to reduce my work what I always have to keep my list with ambassador mail addresses up to date!
So the ambassadors list should not a place for discussions. Its created to speak to the ambassadors easy nothing more!
Ok, I think here we simply have a little difference of how ppl understood this mailinglist. And I think both the 'we need a list to communicate towards the ambasadors' and 'we need a list where ambasadors can discuss things' are valid needs. The question then is - should that be one, or two lists. I personally think having two lists is not very efficient, I guess you agree? If you do, I think we should just acknowledge we had a little misunderstanding here - which is typical for online communication. Nobody has to be blamed... Shit happens and we can move on. If you think we should have two lists the ambasadors should sign up for, I'd love to hear your arguments so the team can discuss it.
There is too much voting here on things that do not require a vote. Voting should be used when there is a need to agree on organizational issues. If you vote on every little detail, then it lessen the value of a vote. Please see my comments below:
Find that very funny, at the most topics havent to be a discussion. 2 reasons most of them are discussed before without a practicable solution. And all of them are the back of the horse, and its better to begin on front ;)
Why that can happen is really simple, there is a new person to the project and get a task like this. Ok, he stepped forward as there was the question for an volunteer.
Can it be that I invest since a long time working on improve the ambassador program? Can it be suseROCKs and AJaeger know that?
So in Germany its simple, when u give another person a task where is another working on, then u are not happy with his work.
So I ask here now suseROCKs and AJaeger u are unhappy with my work? If not, then explain me why that ambassador meeting was called this way!
So I can't speak for both of them, but I did already say something about this on IRC. First of all, I doubt they are unhappy with your work - both have said to me in private several times that you are doing a great job. So that is not the point. I think things in the FOSS world simply work different from germany - if a job is assigned, it still doesn't mean if someone else comes up and offers to help, he /she can't go ahead and do it. As long as it is communicated (so no work is done twice) there shouldn't be a problem - if you think it wasn't done well enough, you can comment, help out, improve it. It's all open and public, after all. As I said on IRC, we should be happy if someone takes up a job we were supposed to do: it means you can do something else, and there is plenty of work. Now I know some jobs are simply nice to do, as they are either fun or have some status attached to them. Such things can be a bit more sensitive. Now I don't know to what extend this was discussed, however, I would call on everyone to think about that: if someone is supposed to do something, be careful with taking it over. Discuss it with that person first: make clear it is NOT because he/she doesn't do a good job, but because you have time and are interested in doing it. In this case, it would've been nice if Carlos, who wanted to do this, contacted gnokki and asked him if he's ok with it.
So for me are more importent things in ambassador program to bring all ambassadors to have her user page in wiki again and have an functional mail address. And after that to become from all ambassadors work reports
Now here is another thing: you have different goals and priorities than others. That is *always* the case, we're all different after all. It doesn't mean we don't share your goals, but others might just have different priorities. I think we must acknowledge that we have different ideas on what is important. We can discuss it, but don't expect everyone to agree. The only thing you can really do is work on what YOU think is important...
btw: Carlos Ribeiro where is urs from launch party?
and after that or better I say for let this happen we have to find a way to publish them in a good way
thats more importent as to have "uniforms" and the other stuff is discussed.
When it comes to the specific things which were discussed by Carlos, it is perfectly OK to say that you disagree with some things, as long as you do it politely. Understand, again, we're all different. Especially considering Carlos is from the other side of this planet - we have a cultural barrier there, too, and you must be consious of that. So disagreement - OK, being mean: NOT ACCEPTABLE. I love how Carlos has been so active, and while I might not always agree with his priorities, what does that matter? He's here and doing good work. The same goes for you, btw - I don't always agree with you either but that doesn't mean I don't like you. Please keep that in mind - we're all human, we're all different, it's OK to discuss things but in the end we must accept our differences or we can't work together anymore. hugs Jos
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