Am Sonntag, 30. September 2007 21:34:01 schrieb H. Guémar:
Hi,
Fedora-FR should be seen as a companion organisation to fp.o ambassadors.
Fedora-FR gathers hundred people maybe thousands in the future, French
fp.oambassadors are about a dozen.
On Feb2007 i was able to see Thomas presentation on Fosdem and i was
impressed - what all of you achieved. There was a strong presence of French
ambassadors and after i signalized that i am interessted in there work, i had
a great time with kind and communicative people. I am sure you know what is
the best to achieve your goals in your country.
Please don´t forget the world who need your results.
Example: googled metisse & fedora - the really needfull articles only in
french
As an association, we will be able to collect and share some
ressources,
and have a _legal existence_.
I had really bad conflicts with Gerold about a Legal Entity - i hate
bureaucracy and my opinion is that Fedora Project should not have borders - i
don´t like´d the idea to found a german LegalEntity. In the other way i
proposed the EMEA Leadership in DEC2006 and now i see this could not
established without legal status in Europe.
Fedora-FR aims to ease and leverage French
ambassadors work and organizing meetings between users.
Human contacts are a better way to promote Fedora rather than mailing-lists
and irc.
Like i say, think about a liason officer who is able to share with us - i am
glad to see Thomas in Rheinfelden.
We're as eager as you to set up an EMEA structure lead by Fedora
Ambassadors, but it cannot replace local user groups and vice-versa. An
EMEA structure should also lean on local user groups to strenghten its
action, if we don't, such structure could only fail.
There is a EMEA Structure and the success we had in this Year to have Fudcon
on Fosdem and LT2007 with Alan Cox and other familiar Names - the official
launch of Fedora 7 on LT 2007 by Max ... this was happen without a legal
entity, because of work that have to be done.
Ask yourself why you doing this? - For me is fun!
Cheers Joerg
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Jörg Simon
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