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(a)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,
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