FAD LinuxTag 2008:CountryOverview

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Country Overview

Summary for the FAD.

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1. Austria - 1. France - MatthieuRondeau 1. Germany - PeterReuschlein and MarcoZiesing 1. Greece - 1. Iceland - 1. Italy - FrancescoCrippa and FrancescoUgolini 1. Mozambique - 1. Netherlands - 1. Poland - 1. Spain - 1. Switzerland - FabianAffolter (so far) 1. 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

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 OpenExpo (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.

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