Re: Fedora-fr association was born !

["H. Guémar" <karlthered2 gmail com>]

Hi,
I don't understand some reactions here. Fedora-FR is NOT some kind of unofficial subgroup of fp.o ambassadors, but rather a local Fedora User Group similar to LUGs. 

The French community has been structured around 
fedora-fr.org unofficial website & forum, some members started regular local meetings (Lyon, Nantes, Paris etc.), a documentation project, assistance to new contributors etc.. Our goal is to federate not only French ambassadors but all French and French-speaking Fedora users. 
Regular physical meetings have helped newcomers and users to integrate our community

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.o ambassadors are about a dozen. 
As an association, we will be able to collect and share some ressources, and have a _legal existence_. 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.

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.

Best regards
H. G.