Le Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:48:19 -0700,
"Thomas Chung" <tchung(a)fedoraproject.org> a écrit :
On 9/29/07, Thomas Canniot <mrtom(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Finally, I will say that the creation of this association was done
> because the Fedora Project itself failed to respond to our requests
> of promoting Fedora in France. I'm sorry, but we should not write
> in the Amb. pages that CD/DVD will be sent for events, we never
> received anything even if the requests were made on time and even
> if people were pinged at different level of the Fedora hierarchy.
> We can't waste time created a global EMEA to promote Fedora, we are
> doing it right now, and it works. EMEA is our next objective, as
> the French association is now created. And I would suggest every
> Fedora Ambassadors from common countries to organise themselves in
> local / national entities to make the future life of EMEA easier.
> However, it will be as slow and unresponsive than the Fedora Amb.
> project.
It seems Fedora Project in USA have failed Fedora Ambassadors in
French. Please note we made every efforts to deliver the materials you
requested but at the end either the package was lost or never made it
on time.
I know Thomas, don't worry, I have nothing against you. :)
The fact is that when we started to create the association, the message
from RedHat was : create stuff locally and you will get reimbursed. But
nobody here wanted (and it was more than legitimate) to pay for $500
for DVDs without the assurance to be reimbursed totally. The
organisation is there to simplify all this stuff, and now it is there
it will simplify things a lot for us.
There were several discussions to improve the situation and I believe
one of them was to create localized distribution center in Europe
supported by local Red Hat office.
So, Best of Luck for French Association.
Thanks a lot Thomas :)
Regards,
Thomas