FAD LinuxTag 2008:CountryOverview

= Country Overview =

Summary for the FAD.

Responsible Ambassador (for creating the report)
The Ambassador here is not responsible by default because he creates and presents that report!


 * 1) Austria -
 * 2) France - MatthieuRondeau
 * 3) Germany - PeterReuschlein and MarcoZiesing
 * 4) Greece -
 * 5) Iceland -
 * 6) Italy - FrancescoCrippa and FrancescoUgolini
 * 7) Mozambique -
 * 8) Netherlands -
 * 9) Poland -
 * 10) Spain -
 * 11) Switzerland - FabianAffolter (so far)
 * 12) UK -

Austria

 * how many Ambassadors
 * 3
 * communication between the LOCAL Ambassadors
 * communication between the INTERNATIONAL Ambassadors
 * how many events / major events per year
 * which event is covered once/twice everytime
 * which event has to be covered in future
 * how much money you think, you'll need
 * local problems
 * local benefits
 * which event has to be covered in future
 * how much money you think, you'll need
 * local problems
 * local benefits
 * local problems
 * local benefits
 * local benefits

Germany

 * how many Ambassadors
 * 17


 * communication between the LOCAL Ambassadors
 * the main communication platform is #fedora-de on irc.freenode.net
 * personal meetings between ambassadors when nessesary


 * communication between the INTERNATIONAL Ambassadors
 * irc on irc.freenode.net (various channels, but also #fedora-de for all german speaking ambassadors)
 * Mailing Lists
 * Fedora EMEA Board


 * how many events / major events per year
 * 3


 * which event is covered once/twice everytime
 * Mayor Events
 * LinuxTag
 * Chemnitzer Linux-Tage
 * FrOSCon


 * Minor Events
 * Release and Install Parties by local LUGs


 * which event has to be covered in future
 * CeBIT


 * how much money you think, you'll need
 * LinuxTag (20.000$)


 * local problems
 * wide spreaded suse/ubuntu/debian community
 * redhat/fedora not that well known as it should be
 * Microsoft is established in most companies


 * local benefits
 * good infrastrucure
 * many skilled people that might help
 * linux is spreading quite good

France

 * how many Ambassadors
 * 18
 * communication between the LOCAL Ambassadors
 * Association Fedora-fr
 * Mailing-list
 * Meeting on sunday evening
 * Several IRC channels
 * communication between the INTERNATIONAL Ambassadors
 * French Association
 * EMEA board
 * Ambassadors' Mailing-list
 * how many events / major events per year
 * Major events :
 * Linux Solution (http://www.solutionslinux.fr)
 * FOSDEM (http://www.fosdem.org)
 * RMLL (http://2008.rmll.info)
 * Events :
 * Release parties
 * Fedora|Lyon
 * Fedora|Paris
 * which event is covered once/twice everytime
 * Linux Solution
 * FOSDEM
 * Fedora|Lyon and Fedora|Paris
 * Release parties
 * which event has to be covered in future
 * RMLL
 * how much money you think, you'll need
 * Linux Solution : 5000 €
 * FOSDEM : see Fedora in Belgium
 * Release parties : enough to create local media (max. 500€)
 * RMLL : 5000€
 * local problems
 * Most of the french people do not really speak, or want to speak, english
 * local benefits
 * Best food of the world
 * Nicest girls
 * Tendency to improve the organisation

Italy

 * how many Ambassadors
 * 13


 * communication between the LOCAL Ambassadors
 * fedora-it mailing list (we've trying a merge between a lot of different Italian ml)
 * irc on irc.freenode.net (#fedora-it)


 * communication between the INTERNATIONAL Ambassadors
 * irc on irc.freenode.net (various channels, but also #fedora-it for all Italian speaking ambassadors)
 * Mailing Lists
 * Fedora EMEA Board
 * FAMSCO


 * how many events / major events per year
 * 3-5


 * which event is covered once/twice everytime
 * Linux Day (really big event in Italy)
 * Fedora by Night
 * Liberamente
 * Fedora Release Parties


 * which event has to be covered in future
 * pycon
 * The !OpenSource Days (business event)
 * Linux World Expo


 * how much money you think, you'll need
 * Linux day: 5,000 EUR
 * budget for 3000-5000 cd or dvds (currenty ubuntu is the main "sponsor" of this event)
 * stickers
 * Liberamente: 100 EUR for traveling


 * local problems
 * Distance between ambassadors get difficult to do meetings in real life and presence of many ambassadors in different events
 * English is a problem for a lot of Italian people


 * local benefits
 * Wonderful places to do meeting (Italy is beautiful)
 * Best food
 * Some cities are really well connected to the Europe with low cost flights

Switzerland

 * how many Ambassadors
 * 5 (three swiss ambassador and two ambassador who cover Germany and Switzerland)


 * communication between the LOCAL Ambassadors
 * we live in a small world and the German ambassadors are our local fellows :-)
 * the usual technologies (phone, IRC, e-mail)


 * communication between the INTERNATIONAL Ambassadors
 * main communication with the German ambassadors (language issue)


 * how many events / minor events per year
 * 3


 * which event is covered once/twice everytime
 * OpenExpo


 * which event has to be covered in future
 * OpenExpo (http://openexpo.ch/), September 2008
 * http://linuxdays.ch at Geneva
 * Orbit-IEX (http://www.orbit-iex.ch) commercial, unknown status of support for opensource projects May 22-25, 2008


 * how much money you think, you'll need
 * 600 - 1000 CHF (= $) for Open Expo (2x) and Linuxdays (travelling and accommodation)


 * local problems
 * 4 official languages (French, German, Italian (and romansh)) . The communication has to be done in French, German or Italian.
 * the swiss users get help from the communities around Switzerland (Germany, France and Italy)
 * Switzerland is a "rich" countries and the people have the money to pay for software (and often want)
 * most linux users are using Ubuntu and SuSE (OpenSuSE)


 * local benefits
 * we have the most beautiful mountains :-)
 * lowest goods and services tax (aka MwSt or VAT) in Europe
 * The swiss open source community is small and most people know each other and can help.