Fedora-fr association was born !

[Nayyar Ahmad]

Hi Gerold,

I certainly add +1 to your opinion, it must cover whole EMEA, i would rather
suggest French  Ambassadors to take these comments in positive sense and do
some brainstorming before taking a final decision.

cheers.

On 9/29/07, Gerold Kassube <gerold at lugd.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> please excuse my clear words but I am very unsatisfied and I want to
> tell you that this association is founded alone by our french friends;
> has nothing to do with all other Ambassadors in the Rest of EMEA ...
>
> No other than the french people were involved in that.
>
> This is _NO; I reply _NO_ European, EMEA or Global Association. As you
> all have read in the FAD meeting minutes from Linuxtag were more that 10
> different Country (with Ambassadors) were presented, the Rest without a
> french participation was talking about to create a global or at least
> EMEA Association.
>
> Just for all of you as information.
>
> Personally I hope, our french friends will have the success they hoped
> but also I personally hope to support a European one ...
>
> Just my two cents
>
> Gerold
>
>
>
> Am Samstag, den 29.09.2007, 18:56 +0200 schrieb Thomas Canniot:
> > Dear Fedora user,
> >
> > All the French Fedora Team is glad to announce you the creation of the
> > association of the French speaking Fedora users.
> >
> > We will need your help to drive this project where all the users of
> > Fedora are working for the same goal, the promotion of Fedora.
> >
> > Why an association ?
> >
> > * In order to promote Free software in general and the Fedora
> > distribution in particular. This promotion will lead to the creation of
> > support for the Fedora promotion, from simple flyers to CD/DVD for the
> > installation of Fedora.
> > * To support our website, one of the most important tool for the French
> > community.
> > * An association helps to increase the presence of the French community
> > and gives more weight to his talk, indeed an association has more
> > credibility in front of its partners, ie Fedora project, Red Hat or
> > others.
> >
> > You should notice that the association has no link with the Fedora
> > project itself or Red Hat. The project has been informed of the
> > creation of the association but did not encourage it or support it in
> > any way.
> >
> > What are the goals of the association ?
> >
> > * Promote free software around a central element: the GNU/Linux
> > distribution Fedora.
> > * Promote Fedora on different associations and events or meetings.
> > * Create a network integrating users and developers of the Fedora
> > GNU/Linux distribution.
> >
> > What are our resources ?
> >
> > * The French ambassador team, localized all around France, involved in
> > different Linux User Group and other association.
> > * The dues from our members.
> > * The sell of goodies (T-shirts, mugs, hat...) should financially help
> > to the association.
> >
> > Who is at the head of the association ?
> >
> > The member of the board are:
> > President: Thomas Canniot (MrTom)
> > Vice-president: Armel Kermorvant (armelk)
> > Treasurer: Johan Cwiklinski (trashy)
> > Secretary: Guillaume Kulakowski (llaumgui)
> >
> > Other members of the board:
> > Maxime Carron (Pingoomax)
> > Thierry Delmonte (Titax)
> > Charles Vinchon (littlecharly)
> >
> > All are Fedora ambassador.
> >
> > Why becoming a member ?
> >
> > * Because you wish to be imply in the association's activities.
> > * Because you wish to financially support the association to promote
> > the distribution GNU/Linux Fedora and Free Software, without being
> > actively involved in these actions.
> > * Because you can become a member from 10 euros.
> >
> > Who can become a member ?
> >
> > The association accepts all French speaking people who wish to help the
> > promotion of the Free software and the GNU/Linux distribution Fedora.
> >
> > How to become a member ?
> >
> > We invite you to have a look at the procedure described on the
> > association's website http://asso.fedora-fr.org/Comment_devenir_membre
> >
> > How to do a simple donation ?
> >
> > If you wish to do a simple donation, you can have a look at the website
> > http://ass.fedora-fr.org/Dons
> >
> > How to be involved in the Association actions ?
> >
> > One of the first goal of the association is to create support for the
> > Fedora promotion during different the events and meetings. If you wish
> > to be involved, actually there are several projects for which we are
> > looking for help:
> > * Small books presenting Fedora
> > * Flyers
> > * Posters
> > * Stickers
> > * Pens
> > * Keyrings
> > * ...
> >
> > We are also looking for partners to create Fedora CDs/DVDs.
> >
> > Where to find information about the association ?
> >
> > One website for all information, http://asso.fedora-fr.org
> >
> >
> > All the team of Fedora-fr association is available to answer your
> > questions and help you to lead your projects.
> >
> > Fedora-fr Team.
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Gerold Kassube
> Fedora Ambassador
>
> Deutschland / Germany
> Schweiz / Switzerland
> Email: GeroldKa at fedoraproject.org
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