Re: [GF] initial slate - european part

[Juantomás García <juantomas lared es>]

Hi,

Martin Baulig wrote:

> > Ideally we should pick someone who'll later be on the
> > board of the European GF as well so we'll have a real
> > representative of GNOME Europe on the main board.
> >
> > I think, the most important thing is that we have
> > "European issues" represented in the main GF - for
> > instance things like to which shows etc. we go, which
> > kind of marketing we want to do, how much money we want
> > to spend for marketing and such.

Well, I think we need to think about the european member
of GF in a kind of provissional member that represent
the people that are working now in the start of the EGF.

> If we do this, we'll also have some more time to think
> about the european issues and to select someone for the
> board.
>

That's the question, try to not spend the time, we need to
start EGF. This is not a life membership.

>
> However, if we do the elections before LWE we have really
> limited time, so better let's go on.
>

Then the question is we must be the elections before LWE or
just make a provisional board until official elections.

>
> To summarize, for the moment, the primary goal is to get
> the foundation up and running.
>
> I think we can only get a larger acceptance of the GF if
> people feel like they're actually represented in it.
>

and the most important if the GF  is able  to make 'real' things from
the first day. Now we just did little steps ahead.

>
> So we need to give european people the feeling that this
> is not just a US institution but a thing for the whole
> GNOME community.
>
> In addition to this, the initial board of directors will
> have a whole lot of work during the first months and they
> may face rejection and bad faith especially from european
> people.
>

Come on when I think about the EGF and we do anything
in Europe, I cann't understand what kind of bad feelling
can we have if we are doing things. It will be EGF effort
with or without GF support.

>
> This makes it even more important for the initial board to
> give people the feeling that this is a thing for the whole
> GNOME community.
>

EGF are in the same boat, it is the same project, just
localized/specialiced in Europe.

>
> A lot of people I talked to here in germany and europe said
> that they dislike the way decisions are being made in the
> project at the moment because the steering committee was
> never elected and is also a pure american institution.
>

????

>
> This is one of the big tasks for the foundation.

Best Regards
Juantomás