Dear Max,
That is exactly the point what I wanted to approach.
Let's explain me why I launch the local entity debate.
Well, one of my recurrent annual project is to promote Fedora locally
- Belgium - which is not in contradiction with what you wrote, isn't
it.
I organize and participate to commercial and non commercial event
with Red Hat Belgium and spread the words when it is possible.
In addition, I am trying to improve Fedora in Belgium from errors,
misses, etc I had from previous years.
However, I am beginning to be a little bit stuck.
For instance, I do not have any resources in order to promote Fedora
locally. I requested them several time via
That the reason why for my point of view, we need to be more
organized, more empowered, more professional, more transparent.
And that is one of the reasons of the Fedora EMEA NPO creation.
For instance, the FOSDEM has to be managed as a project.
So it needs annual scope, time and budget.
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Max Spevack <mspevack(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Thomas Canniot wrote:
> 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.
I am very interested in allowing local people to be empowered -- I am
glad that there is a French Fedora team that understands all the events
in France, and that can come back to someone like me or FAMSCo and ask
for resources.
I am glad that there is a LinuxTag and FOSDEM organizational team that
does similar things.
I want that to continue to grow, and I want people all over the world to
be able to get resources for local events and to promote Fedora locally:
This is one of the goals of the Red Hat Community Architecture team,
which I am a member of.
But all of that is very different than going through the process of
setting up a separate legal entity for each country, which I personally
don't think gives us much value. But that is just my opinion. ;)
--Max
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