On 05/10/2010 07:03 PM, Debayan Banerjee wrote: > On 10 May 2010 10:22, Ashwin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have not listed myself as an ambassador so far, if the rewards / >> incentives are good enough, I will surely list myself :) > > Fedora as a project does not need to dish out monetary rewards for > contributions. The quality of its community is excellent and is also > very mature. For projects such as these, being able to involve > yourself actively is a reward in itself.
Bingo, absolutely correct. The right pinch gets right answers. I am happy you have highlighted the fact that a persons self decided and volunteered association is great enough a reward. Then why disassociate the same person without his confirmation / concurrence. > Sun and MicroSoft have campus ambassador-ship programs that have > monetary benefits for students. I would not like to become a part of > either of them. They pay students to create a community, which never > ends up happening at the end of the day. This is a different discussion. There still many more MS addicts / slaves as compared to enlightened LINUX users. > If you pay for a community, you are doomed to begin with. > Rahul's mail is aimed at optimising the process of inducting and > maintaining ambassadors. He is not desperate. Hence he does not need > ideas like the ones you gave. I think if you realise that, the > argument is dead. It is not the urgency we are discussing. Ambassadors come and go, why remove them from a list. If some do not respond, so what ? > As for accountability, there are enough number of people who will be > volunteers and still be accountable. There are also enough number of > people who are the opposite. I for example, am not accountable for the > project i worked on for a few months. I get some hate mails sometimes > for that and I believe I deserve it, but I then I dont really care. > What I am saying is, there are enough number of people unlike you and > I to keep projects like Fedora going. Very true, it takes all types for the world to be. So I am also here. If you guys do not want my views, please say so and I will stop writing. with Regards, ASHWIN _______________________________________________ india mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/india
