[Ambassadors] Proposal: Fedora European Infrastructure

[Robert Scheck]

Hello folks,

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, fabian at bernewireless.net wrote:
> The goods and services tax (aka MwSt or VAT) is in Switzerland 7,6 %. This
> is much lower as in Germany (19 %) or Austria (20 %). Please correct me when
> I'm wrong. But this is only one side. Switzerland is not a Member of the EU
> (sometimes are there problems with the delivery over the european borders)
> and the costs for bank tansactions are around 3-5€ (transaction from a swiss
> account to an account in Germany). But the "bank secret" (Bankgeheimnis) is
> known worldwide.

As far as I know, you a) can't simply open an account at a Swiss bank and
b) you already need money at the opening to pay in. And I'm not talking
about 50 or 100 Euro here. But finally, I've got no Swiss bank account, so
I'm not sure, whether my information are correct.

> I agree with Thomas. Maybe there is a way that Red Hat Switzerland (or
> elsewhere) will open an account in the name of the Fedora project and
> two or three ambassadors (from different countries) are responsible for
> this account.

Opening an account by the help of e.g. Red Hat Switzerland in the name of
the Fedora Project sounds well to me, but it could get interesting as the
Swiss banks are distrustful for usual because of money laundering. But as
said before, I didn't open such an account; it's just what I know. People
from Switzerland, please correct me if I'm wrong somewhere...


Greetings,
  Robert