Le Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:48:19 -0700, "Thomas Chung" <tchung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > On 9/29/07, Thomas Canniot <mrtom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Finally, I will say that the creation of this association was done > > because the Fedora Project itself failed to respond to our requests > > of promoting Fedora in France. I'm sorry, but we should not write > > in the Amb. pages that CD/DVD will be sent for events, we never > > received anything even if the requests were made on time and even > > if people were pinged at different level of the Fedora hierarchy. > > We can't waste time created a global EMEA to promote Fedora, we are > > doing it right now, and it works. EMEA is our next objective, as > > the French association is now created. And I would suggest every > > Fedora Ambassadors from common countries to organise themselves in > > local / national entities to make the future life of EMEA easier. > > However, it will be as slow and unresponsive than the Fedora Amb. > > project. > > It seems Fedora Project in USA have failed Fedora Ambassadors in > French. Please note we made every efforts to deliver the materials you > requested but at the end either the package was lost or never made it > on time. I know Thomas, don't worry, I have nothing against you. :) The fact is that when we started to create the association, the message from RedHat was : create stuff locally and you will get reimbursed. But nobody here wanted (and it was more than legitimate) to pay for $500 for DVDs without the assurance to be reimbursed totally. The organisation is there to simplify all this stuff, and now it is there it will simplify things a lot for us. > > There were several discussions to improve the situation and I believe > one of them was to create localized distribution center in Europe > supported by local Red Hat office. > > So, Best of Luck for French Association. Thanks a lot Thomas :) > > Regards, Thomas -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
