[Ambassadors] Ambassadors Meeting EMEA - IRC Summary 2007-12-12

Thomas Chung tchung at fedoraproject.org
Wed Dec 12 23:47:16 UTC 2007


On 12/12/2007, Fabian Affolter <fab at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> FAmSco
>
> The nomination period for a FAMSco seat was extended about one week due
> to lack of nominations.
> The deadline for a self-nomination was 12-09-2007.
> Nominations: AlejandroMoncada, FrancescoUgolini, JeffreyTadlock,
> JohnBabich, PabloBarrera, RodrigoPadula, SandroMathys, ThomasCanniot,
> and myself.
> Unfortunately there is no effort from APAC.
> The voting period will start soon.  Please vote for your favorite
> candidate when the voting period has started.
>
>
> Ambassadors Membership
>
> 2007-12-11, 282 Ambassadors have been verified (signed CLA and joined
> 'ambassadors' group)
> How many of those 282 ambassadors are based in the EMEA region?
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/CountryList
>
> Freemedia
>
> FreeMedia will remove this from future meetings because it's more
> associated to Distribution than the Ambassadors Program.
>
>
> Events
>
> Linux Solutions at Paris
> We are subscribed, we will have a booth
>
> Chemnitzer LinuxTage 2008
> Who is willing to hep me in Chemnitz? JensKuehnel will not go alone!
> He have not ordered a booth. Want to help him there? Send him an Email
>
>
> NPO
>
> kanarip keeps his promises to translate "Gerold's version" into english
> and sent it to him for checking
> GeroldKa translated the "goales" into german and sent the letter to the
> financial department to check out if the goals are good enough for the
> german law to be confirmed as "allgemeinnützig" which is related to pay
> taxes or not -> the answer is still standing
>
> BartCouvreur ask for the statutes.  Everybody will get the opportunity
> to see the translated version; but first we want to check out if THIS
> version will match with the law of the country in which we will found
> it; othwerwise it makes no sense to confrontate you with a version which
> is not the value on the stamp with which it is send.
>
> CLA has nothing to do with the NPO.  The statutes only describe the
> how's, who's and what's of the organization itself. It sets rules for
> the organization (e.g. the executive board) to have general members
> meetings once a year, etc
>
> JeroenVanMeeuwen have a huge chunk translated and he is starting the
> last couple of notes, He hope to be able to send out a draft by the end
> of the week, otherwise it'll be during the weekend. Motion to move the
> item to the next meeting for another status update
>
> Vote on the statutes on FOSDEM 2008 and maybe election of the board
> there. Founding has to be a face-to-face meeting with the founder.
> A minimum of seven and out of this crowed the board must be elected
> there is no country limitaion where you found and which nationality the
> persons must be.
>
> The name will be Fedora EMEA -it has been agreed upon by mspevack
> It aligns with another NPO initiative JeroenVanMeeuwen is involved with
> in the USA, as well as with "Fedora Project" being the official project
> itself.
>
> Next meeting (so far)
>
> 2008-01-16 - 20.00 UTC

Great Summary.
Thank you Fabian.
Regards,
-- 
Thomas Chung
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung




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