On Wednesday, November 10, 2010 01:19:40 am Jared K. Smith wrote: > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Luckily, examples exist of people being appointed in important positions, > > and making it very, very clear only U.S. citizens are eligible, aside > > from the issue of Red Hat, Inc. ignoring EMEA. > > This isn't entirely true. Appointed seats on the Fedora Board, for > example, can come from anywhere. It's certainly not my intention to > limit Fedora or its governance to one particular part of the world, or > to ignore EMEA as you state. My goal is to build a community that's > both diverse and inclusive of people with a wide variety of > backgrounds and experiences. > > As we discussed when I was in Zurich, I think I understand (at least > some of) your frustrations, and I'm doing what I can to try to > eliminate some of the barriers (or perceived barriers in some cases) > that keep people from collaborating more with Fedora. Hi Jared! What about one global FUDCon accompanied with smaller local events - like one day FADs + hackfests. I see it working for other projects, it's of course more expensive but it helps breaking barriers, makes it easier to meet all people. I can compare EMEA and NA FUDCons. And I really enjoyed NA one. It's a bigger logistic problem, for smaller project (meant - external companies contributors) difficult to sponsor. But standalone FUDCons are probably expensive too -> these money could go to sponsor contributors to get to the one right place. And I've already seen the same European faces on NA and EMEA FUDCons - so it's already working for a lot of people. Jaroslav > -- > Jared Smith > Fedora Project Leader > _______________________________________________ > advisory-board mailing list > advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board -- Jaroslav ÅeznÃk <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 275 Mobile: +420 602 797 774 Red Hat, Inc. http://cz.redhat.com/ _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
