Fedora European Infrastructure (FEI)

This idea has been in the back of my mind since FOSDEM 2007, and we are working on making it a reality right now. Have a look here -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack/FY09

This is the draft for Fedora European Infrastructure for the upcoming european budget, initially started at Fosdem 2007 .

Aim

Establish a proper European Infrastructure which will coordinate FedoraEvents in Europe through one person ("Executive").

Leadership

Role of Executive

• coordinate efforts among European countries
• encourage local communities to strengthen their efforts
• help ambassadors organizing events among Europe
• help ambassadors financing their events in Europe
• interaction between different European event-teams
• work together with other Fedora Projects (than Ambassador) in the future
• define with the Ambassadors which events (per year) should be covered (directly during a ["FAD"] )
• hold strength communication with FAMSCo and the Fedora Board

Requirements to be the Executive

• speak both a local language and English
• be a known active former local ambassador
• constant investment of time and work is needed
• strength diplomatic skills
• willing to travel
• willing to coordinate Ambassadors (locally and)
• business economist

Name proposals for the Executives

• Fedora European Architect

• Fedora European Coordinator

• Fedora European Supervisor

Constructive Comments since first draft

Discussed on 08 Mar 07 Meeting:

• a swiss bank account (proposed by JoergSimon)
• before or after LinuxTag2007  ? - not yet decided
• Austria is also nice with tax! - ClausReheis
• 214€ from CLT by ChitleshGoorah and JoergSimon - first deposit as an example to follow
• Executive will possess accountdata and id in shops which will be useful to produce swags or dvds (proposed by JoergSimon)
• a non profit organisation, and sell things through a shop, there are no tax at all normally (or at least in france)- ThomasCanniot
• bank account managed by a legal entity (not by an individual) - ThomasCanniot