On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 11:16 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar <[email protected]> wrote: > On 29 June 2016 at 13:59, sankarshan <[email protected]> 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-the-democratic-national-convention-excerpt/2012/09/05/f208865e-f7a4-11e1-8253-3f495ae70650_story.html>) "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> _______________________________________________ india mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/[email protected]
