On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 11:16 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar
<siddhesh.poyarekar(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 29 June 2016 at 13:59, sankarshan
<foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Let's cut to the chase - what is the worst that can happen? We'll have
As is evident from this thread, the worst that can happen is
resentment about being left out.
It really seems like only the initial messaging (i.e. the tone and
content of the OP) is where it all went wrong, so there is still scope
to move on and have local contributors who are interested be involved
in fleshing out the details.
During the 2012 DNC, Bill Clinton, in his speech referenced an
anecdote
(<
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dnc-2012-bill-clintons-speech-at-...>)
"One of the greatest chairmen the Democratic Party ever had, Bob
Strauss, used to say that every politician wants every voter to
believe he was born in a log cabin he built himself. But, as Strauss
then admitted, it ain’t so."
There is perhaps not a single person among us in this group who has
not faltered in their first few steps and didn't have a more
experienced (an 'elder', if you will) take them aside and coach them
on the how and what to do better.
I am amazed that we let a coaching moment slip in favor of a full
press slaying. That is certainly not us. And by the way, I am not just
talking about this thread. This week had 2 instances. For our own
sake, if not for the sake of the project, we need to do better.
The wiki page exists to notify everyone interested to join in and the
call-for-action is not an implied "this is the only agenda and nothing
else". To edit the page all that is needed is a FAS account.
Also as an added note, if it's not already the case, please let
Fedora
foot the bill for this. In APAC we're much too frugal with the Fedora
budget due to which we end up grossly under-spending every year and
hence getting our budgets reduced every year. It is not that we're
spending less, it is just that Red Hat local offices are footing the
bill for things it shouldn't be. it would be better if the local
offices pitched in only when the Fedora budget is unavailable.
That is true and very prescient.
--
sankarshan mukhopadhyay
<
https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan>