Sandro Mathys

(Ausnahmsweise in englisch).

Today I nominated myself for the FAmSCo (Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee) elections taking place very soon. Actually, the nomination-period would be over already if there were enough volunteers, but not the period has been extended for one week as written in the election rules. It won’t be extended another time, though.

Just a brief reminder: All 7 seats are open and in order to have an election there should be at least 25% more nominees than open seats. So we need 9 ambassadors to nominate themselves, but (including me) we have only 7 so far. Either some ambassadors out there put themselves onto the nominations list until the end of this week or the 7 people that did so already (Alejandro Moncada, Fabian Affolter, Jeffrey Tadlock, Pablo Barrera, Rodrigo Padula and me: Sandro Mathys) will be elected automatically.

You don’t want that, do you? You want elections, because democracy only works with elections. But elections only work with nominations. And nominations only work with volunteers. So it’s up to you!

I’d like to see some Ambassadors from other places than just AMER and EMEA on the nominations list. I really do. Currently, there are 3 nominations from Europe, 3 from South America and 1 from the USA. Where’s Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Oceania, and whatever else there is? I know that Fedora ambassadors exist in every part of the world, don’t hide! We need people in FAmSCo from everywhere in order to get the best results possible.

UPDATE 2007-12-09
Uh, I’m sorry. I forgot to mention Francesco Ugolini among the 7 persons who self-nominated already, when I wrote that post. In the meantime, John Babich put his name on the nominations lists too. Thanks to him it’s now 3/Europe, 3/South America and 2/USA running for the election. The nomination period officially ends today – I don’t know in what time zone, though. I guess we’re flexible there.

UPDATE 2007-12-10
Okay, the nomination period is now over and we even got another self-nomination since my last update. Thomas Canniot added himself last night. It’s 4/Europe, 3/South America und 2/USA now, MrTom being a Frenchman. I wonder what the people are going to vote for as soon as the election period starts later this week.

Maybe it’s gonna be a pure European/South American FAmSCo? I doubt that and I wouldn’t really ike this decision. Or one with at least 2 ambassadors from each of those 3 regions? That’d be nice IMHO. Anyway, it’s a pity that no persons from Asia, Africa and Oceania nominated themselves. The more regions the better, for many many many reasons (and worse for only one: there’d be no perfect meeting time with all those time zones).