[Ambassadors] Fedora Belgium
Frederic Hornain
fhornain at gmail.com
Sun Mar 2 14:20:17 UTC 2008
Dear *,
Ok, everybody gave his own point of view however it was just a simple question.
I did not say I am going to do that, did I ? I just wondering if it
was possible and if it makes sense to do it.
And the answer was "No really" as Max explain us.
Indeed the community prefer to have a centralized organization.
Fair enough ! :)
> First of all there isn't any German entity, but an European (or better
> EMEA) one (for legal reason it was founded in Germany). If you want
> you can join Fedora EMEA (Europe - Middle East - Africa) NPO (No
> Profit Organization), just talk with Fedora EMEA chair to know how to
> do it.
Excuse me, you are right, I made a mistake. There is an EMEA entity
not a German one.
Sorry for that but I am still human.
So as Gerold wrote in one of these previous post, I am going to
contact Fabian (fabian_a), Gerold himself (geroldka), Jeroen (kanarip)
or Robert (rsc) [as the board of that organisation] in the next days.
Kind Regards
Frederic
2008/3/1 Jonathan Basse <jbasse at fedoraproject.org>:
> > > I encourage everyone to re-read my response on this thread and think
> > > about how we can continue to work together as a EUROPEAN COMMUNITY and
> > > not worry about individual countries.
> >
> > However I can hardly understand how such a big europen infrastructure could
> > be able to manage local members individually. We are too many I think and
> > have so many different cultures that I think it will be a very difficult
> > task to handle. And I think this is were FAMSCO failed two years ago, it
> > could not manage so many members because they were so different.
>
> My understanding is that Fedora EMEA NPO is more to provide a legal framework
> as well as organizing the European community around Fedora
>
>
> > Local entities are good as they can do this face to face job with local
> > members. That's what we do here, and I should not make a mistake saying
> > that european people first feels being from their countries before feeling
> > European. I consider myself as being more French than European, however,
> > Europe IS bigger than France and gives many laws to us.
>
> This therefore does not change the role of these 'local entities' which manage
> this face to face job but actually provide them with central resource instead
> of letting them 'working on their own' Moreover having this may reinforce
> Fedora identity ensuring we are present when needed giving a unified message.
>
> I do not understand the need of creating NPO for each (country) group. This
> may become a mess and make thinks difficult to follow and manage. It may be
> worse designing for each country a kind of 'manager' who may be the interface
> between Fedora EMEA NPO and the local community. Advocating on their needs
> and providing resources for local activities.
>
>
> > People are far from Europe from my point of view. EMEA organisation is
> > good, but I personaly think it will be much easier task to communicate with
> > identified local entities than with so many different local ambassadors.
> >
> >
> > Thomas Canniot
>
> It was just my 0.2 $
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Jonathan Basse <jbasse at fedoraproject.org>
> Belgium Fedora Ambassador
>
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