On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Nelson Marques <07721@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear all, > > Something came up the other day in the trans_PT lists and I'm pushing a > FAD in Portugal forward. > > Some minor details are to be found here: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PtFAD > > Currently there is no date assigned because our national community is so > small that we're trying to select a date where everyone can be present. > > Once we have the date we're going to place it also on the Event page and > follow the normal guidelines for this. > > Our goals with this FAD is to provide a self-assessment of the Project > Fedora in Portugal and it's contributors/user base. I think this is a good idea; I'd just like to point out, from at least my own personal experience, that it will be helpful for you to add more specific deliverables to your agenda, rather than a general "self-assessment." Even if those deliverables look something like: * Hour 1-2: Define the specific items we are going to assess * Hours 3-6: Wiki each of these items with detail on where each of these specific criteria currently fall on a success scale etc. Whatever seems logical. It's too easy to spend an entire day thinking about a giant document of self-assessment and then not getting anything accomplished. If you break it up into individual pieces - and by time - I think you are more likely to produce results. IMO - The most important thing here to think about is - what are you going to do with the information you get from self-assessment? I would recommend that you add some time into the schedule for the following: * Where are you now (which is the self-assessment) * Where do you want to be (and what are the criteria for success there) * What are your steps and milestones to get from where you are now - to where you want to be in the future * How are you planning on checking / updating the status of your progress > > I'm going to call-in a press release, so there might be journalists > present from national specialized and generic press to cover this event, > including a TV team from SIC Radical (http://sicradical.sapo.pt/) which > is very friendly towards this events and a channel directed to younger > people. How are you planning on using this press time exactly? > > > > I would like to request the following on this list, specially from EMEA. > > * I am not aware of Portuguese current Ambassadors; if there are none, I > would like to check for volunteers during the FAD, as it will become > important to have our own Ambassadors. Therefore, I would like to place > an invitation for EMEA so send in someone who can represent it if that > is possible. > > * This event is to be reported to Ambassadors list, when the time comes, > can I contact someone to pass the word on the Ambassadors list? Gerold? > JSimon? Wonderer? > > * I would like also to know if there are Ambassadors in Spain located in > Galicia. If so, I would kindly ask someone of EMEA to check availability > on them and address them an invitation as well. Galicia and Portugal are > very close in Language, culture and History. We would like for sure to > work closer to them. > > * I would like to place a formal request, and this would be awesome to > be discussed during the FAD, once more it could be relevant to have > someone from EMEA present, so that future Portuguese Ambassadors could > be tutored by EMEA Ambassadors. > > * I never got to know how Ambassadors do work, but I would like to let > everyone know that during this FAD we are taking the Ambassadorial work > as very serious thing, and probably as the main critical factor of > success in establishing a community in Portugal, and more important keep > it alive, which is the hard part. So If there is present a Ambassador > from Fedora EMEA, I would request a small presentation about > bidirectional communication. Something in the line of: > > Ambassadorial Work: > > Represent Fedora before the Community | Represent the Community before > Fedora. > > I would recon this would only work if such connections are established > and work in a bidirectional way. > > * I would like to remember EMEA, that Portugal leads the PALOP's > organization (Official Portuguese Speaking Countries in Africa). We are > they key for a good part of Africa, and all of them speak and signed all > the Portuguese treaties. The Portuguese teached in Africa is the same > teached in Portugal. This could be relevant, as Africa is a part of > EMEA, and projects like OLPC can be more effective by having a strong > Portuguese presence in the Project. > > > Once I have feedback from the current Portuguese team, a date will be > set and everyone will be informed in a formal way. I would though > request someone from EMEA to pass on a future email to the Ambassadors > list. > > This are some concerns, I would also like to place a request not to > troll this thread, as it's something constructive for the benefit of > all. > > Nelson. > > > > -- > marketing mailing list > marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
