[Fedora-fr-list] Un peu de com

[Pascal]

Bonjour,

C'est tres long :)


OK, here is a mail to respond (answer plutot ?) to several topics that are in many people minds (it seems fait tache).

First, let me introduce again (a la place de re-introduce, je pense que le you juste apres est de trop) the Fedora-fr Community, the "Who-are-you
question." (c'est pas who's who l'expression ?) Fedora-fr.org is a community websites (website au singulier ? je suis pas sur de moi) whose aims is to promote Fedora.
It is lead mostly by active Ambassadors. It is made of a forum, several
mailing lists, an IRC channel on Freenode and a local documentation
project. There are at the moment more than 9000 members subscribed to
our forums. On these forums, we help people if they have problems and
questions about the distribution (pas sur que distro soit anglais), obviously, but we also help people creating
their own RPM to help them participating into Fedora Extras. We have
also about 15 people contributing to the local documentation project.
Fedora-fr is also the area where French Ambassadors are altogether.
There are 13 active ambassadors. On Sundays, they meet then to discuss
topics such as the local organisation, the promotion of the distribution (idem, abbreviation) and also main decisions concerning the Project in general. (j'ai repris toute la phrase)

What are we (faute de frappe ?) doing?
We are actively promoting the distribution. How are we doing (pour etre homogene avec la phrase d'avant) this? First, we created a strong community website. People can share their thoughts about Fedora, with the forums, the IRC or the blog platform. Finally, Ambassadors and involved people also go to different events. (J'ai repris toute la phrase precedente) This year, Fedora was officially represented by some ambassadors (6) at the biggest
Linux event in France, Linux Solutions. Some French Ambassadors (3) also
went to FOSDEM to meet European Ambassadors and worldwide involved
people. 

What is the Fedora-fr Organisation? (mieux ?)
First, I need (j'ai change le verbe) to explain (pas de to si je me trompe pas) you how we came to this idea. First, There were requests from French people to be able to give Fedora some (j'ai ajoute some) money. They couldn't, as the Project does not accept gifts due to legally issues (j'ai ajoute quelques  mots...). Then, there were several misunderstandings and a lack of (petit ?? manque plutot ? donc lack) organisation (from both side it seems). Finally, we were invited to create our materials locally. As nobody here wanted to spend its own money for it, we decided that a non-profit organisation was a very good thing to do: it would allow us to create our own materials and to be recognised as a fully organised and legal entity both by the Fedora Project, RedHat and by the french laws. (j'ai retouche la phrase d'avant)
Moreover, as RedHat Brandful store goodies shipping costs are completely
unfordable (ortho sur unfordable) by Europeans, we decided to create a webshop as well.
As you can see, everything is about promoting Fedora, as it has never
been the case elsewhere and before.

How are you going to do it?
As soon as the organisation will be authorised by the french governement (retouche phrase precedente), we will invite people to subscribe
to it, if they are willing to. This may (would ?? je mettrais may) create a lot of money. Then, because we know that subscriptions (pluriel) will slow down a day or another and because Fedora goodies are very difficult to find in Europe, we had this webshop idea: on each product that are going to be sold, we will get a
small profit (profit pour benefice) for the organisation. Finally, we will (then, finally ds la meme phrase, bof) have some money to work with, so as to create DVDs (les anglais mettent le pluriel aux abbreviations) and help people
promoting the distribution (abbreviation) (by having a part of their trip refunded (refunded a la place de reimbursed) for
example).
Involved ambassadors voted for the creation of the non-profit
organisation on January 31st, during Linux Solutions event. Here are the
involved people : Thomas Canniot (myself -- president), Armel Kermorvant
(vice-president), Johan Cwislinski (treasurer), Guillaume Kulakowski
(secretary) and two others people involved in the Steering Committee,
Thierry Delmonte and Charles Vinchon.

What do you think of Fedora Europe Infrastructure (FEI)?
We think that Fedora Europe Infrastructure is a very good idea and we
want to take an active part in its creation. Let me explain (pas de to :) ) you how
we see things (see things, c'est pas anglais, j'ai pas d'idee pour reformuler). We think that FEI has to help people organise themselves
into local non-profit organisations, mostly as we have done (corrige par mon collegue, j'y arrivais pas) here in France.
If there are some money to deal with, from RedHat for example, FEI will
get the money so as to share it to non-profit organisations which need
to promote Fedora locally. If they can't / don't want to create a
non-profit organisation or if they don't want to create goodies locally,
then FEI will have goodies made for them and send to them. FEI however
should only accept large orders and not give DVDs (pluriel) one by one. Local
community don't need all the army with us (le with us, ne convient pas) (a big website and all that
stuff), but only a legal entity ruled by recognised rules that help FEI
understand that they are not trying to get things for themselves.

How should FEI be organised?
Well, I don't think it may be a good idea to have only one person
leading FEI. It may be a very good idea however that some people manage
things. At least, 3, but not more, to avoid under activity.
FEI Steering Committee should be elected by Ambassadors. And only
European Ambassadors should be allowed to be at its head (or maybe one
person from the Fedora Ambassador Project, as its leader, or even
higher, Greg or Max).


Concernant le FEI, du point de vue legal, ca va etre chaud non ?
Tres beau projet en tout cas.

Pascal