Le jeudi 08 mars 2007 à 22:56 +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH a écrit :
On 3/6/07, Kermorvant Armel wrote:
> I agree with you and I discust about this point with Chitlesh 3 weeks ago and we
have the
>same point of view.
> But, after a short discussion with himm we share the same point of view about this
> subjet is :
> 1st Step : Creation of a legal entity in your country (Exemple Fedora-FR in France)
> 2nd Step : After the 1st step I OK
I disagreed having Europe moving in that direction.
Hello, though, I don't remember when that discussion took place, I
think I made it clear that :
- the real work should be done at the Fedora Ambassador's project
i.e in the other terms Fedora Ambassadors/Marketing Mailing Lists
and its meetings
- Fedora-fr is for "donations" and the "shop". However, I'm NOT
for
Fedora-fr being independent from Fedora Ambassador Project.
Just keep in mind that Fedora-fr first steering committee has *only*
Fedora Ambassadors in it. Is this enough to reassure you ?
In general, I don't want local communities to be independent of Fedora
Ambassador Project. I understand that language is a problem. But
should we take language as a blocker for working together ?
As its president, I don't wish it either. We share the same goals than
Amb. Project : promoting the distro.
We have seen in the past:
- FAD (Fedora Ambassador Day)
- FOSDEM2007
where we had ambassadors and fedora contributors from different
countries. Sure we had at some point converged to english as the
language for communication, but at the same time Fedora isn't a
language contest, but about open-source.
Fedora said and will be saying working "the upstream model" is the
where progress will be.
We have to make sure that Fedora Ambassadors does his job!
It is doing well I think. We were encouraged to create stuff locally,
and as no people wanted / could not to pay in advance schwags, we had to
create a legal organisation. That is as simple as that.
And at the same time have a look at our Fedora Ambassador Meeting, it's dying !!
Meetings have loss its sense and ambassadors don't take part on the
project but ready to criticized whenever they feel like.
I agree and I admit not attending Meeting any more. I have a new fresh
eyes about it since FOSDEM. But I really tend to *forget* them. We used
to have a mail reminder, where has it gone ?
Having legal entity for each country will lead to :
- everyone will concentrate on his/her country only under the name of
Fedora but not for Fedora
I don't agree with this statement. Working localy is a good start to
then work as a whole project. We have to stay close to our user base.
- Fedora Marketing and FAMSCo won't know what is happening in
your
country hence our infrastructure that we are working on will not be
useful and someone has to :
- tell Max that we are not ready for the infrastructure.
- bear all the critics and flame wars that Red Hat is giving up on
Fedora or whatever because local communities are too weak to be
operating on their own.
- agree that he/she refused the infrastructure that will make
his/her fedora community better that any other linux project has done
or can do. I know many in this list compare fedora projects to
ubuntu's, but won't you like not to say/do anything and everything is
praising fedora ? Now is the time.
The different Fedora Projects operate independently and
automatically. But unfortunately each project can't listen and satisfy
each contributor. It is the case of the Fedora Ambassadors project
where contributors want to do things, but unfortunately to do so for
this particular project a minimum budget is required.
A Fedora Ambassador is someone who spread the word for Fedora. But
unfortunately that Fedora Ambassador is weak without infrastructure
and budget to make things for Fedora's advantage.
In any extent, it seems to be as well a problem we are trying to solve
through Fedora-fr.
To make that Fedora Ambassadors' life better in terms of
infrastructure and budget, there are different ways to do so:
- creating local communities and legal entities
- sit and cry
- sit and wait
- use some of the infrastructure and budget that Fedora Marketing has.
The last item in our case today is that Max proposed an extra budget
for Europe and the question is how can that budget be shared and used
appropriately among European Ambassadors ?
Eventually, everyone can opt for the _ultimate_ solution[2], i.e "sit and
wait".
MirjamWaeckerlin, ThomasCanniot, GeroldKassube and I proposed "Fedora
European Infrastructure" which is a set of guidelines on what kind of
Executive we are looking for.
But this ultimate solution[2] will lead to someone needs to do that
job and that job will be done according to his/her way. Of course one
or two months, some will "sit and cry" because the guidelines :
- aren't in their favour
- give credit to how hard they worked
- ....
I'm quite sad that those who said that the actual Fedora Ambassador
infrastructure sucks and their requests aren't processed or rejected,
that they didn't step in to propose new but concrete ideas.
Or perhaps you think that MirjamWaeckerlin, ThomasCanniot,
GeroldKassube and I have already done everything. Believe me, we
haven't!
Things like:
- how and on what circumstances the Executive will reimburse a fedora ambassador
- can any ambassador be reimbursed ?
- is the Executive the one who will provide tshirts or dvds to other
european ambassadors
- the delay of reimbursed and how
- ....
needs to be discussed and write as guidelines so that in the future,
we know who has what kind of rights.
Before we all get confused in unrealistic ideas/suggestions for the
future of the "Fedora European Infrastructure", take a short break and
look at the picture from an objective point of view.
Hai it's is all about money !
- If one country has a way to make money ("see RH legal) for
sponsoring their Fedora events, so perhaps don't need that "Fedora
European Infrastructure" we are building.
I do think we need it. Red Hat would prefer giving it to an
organisation / infrastructure towards it can be accountable. I don't
think they would give money to individuals in every European countries.
Here, it is a question of credibility.
Thomas