[Ambassadors] EMEA ambassadors need new leadership

[Gerold]

Hi there,

first of all, I'd like to thank you Jiri, ....
... for all you've done so far for EMEA Ambassadors.

Also for your clear description what must be done when you step back as
"leader" for EMEA. When I may take a look back in the years I'd like to
say that maybe I was one of the first "leader" not voted or elected but
Ambassadors were just hired by me, but I also gave up and Christoph took
over a "leadership", which he gave up to you ...
Duties and jobs as leader changed, also the personal situation of each
Ambassador and the one who has a leading position.

In general your mail today and my history brings me back to one idea which
we had in a discussion long time ago with Max (Spevack).

We should have a elected leader from each region (globally) which should
be working close to the FPL and be his first contact in each region.
As far as I remember, we also had a draft how to report some things; 
remember FAD :-)

And because of FAD 2015, it looks like that Rheinfelden is unable to do
(because of the prices), Leverkusen (also fails because I think Felix is
in the US) BUT

Zoltan asked me a few days ago if I'm ok with it, when Hungary will hold
it this year in Budapest, which I agreed. So Zoltan, it's now up to you to
provide us with details ...

Just my five cents which I wanted to share with you

Best regards
Gerold



> Hi,
> I'm writing this email because I feel that ambassadors in EMEA need new
> leadership. In the last 4+ years I've taken a lot of roles in the
> Ambassadors project (chair of our meetings, FAmSCo chair, production
> and distribution of swag in EMEA, regional treasurer, event and
> activity planning, mentoring,...). Since I changed a job and moved to
> the desktop engineering team in Red Hat earlier this year, I haven't
> had so much time for all of this any more and after those years I'm
> also feeling a bit burnt out which is, I think, the main reason why I
> have not been doing all those duties as properly as in the past.
>
> We need new leaders with energy who will step up and drive our
> community forward just like we did 3-4 years ago. I know there are such
> people among us! I'm not going away. I will remain one of the most
> active ambassadors in the region, but I'd like to focus more on the
> field work and our activities in the Czech Republic.
>
> To be more specific, I'm looking for volunteers to take over the
> following roles:
> - primary chair of our regular meetings - Jon and Giannis have been big
> help to me here, but I still have primary responsibility for it, when I
> forgot or was not available and didn't ask someone else to chair it,
> the meeting didn't happen. I'm willing to be one of the chairs, but
> someone will need to take over the primary responsibility.
>
> - treasurer - I haven't had time to track our expenses and do reports
> like last years, I only have a rough idea about our spending right now.
> This role is about tracking expenses, collecting receipts and
> calculating our overall spending and reporting others how we're doing
> budget-wise.
>
> - FAmSCo representative - looks like FAmSCo as one of the Fedora bodies
> will remain and we will have elections after F23, but we need new blood
> here. It's not only me, but pretty much all members have been serving
> for several years in FAmSCo and feel burnt out. Ambassadors needs new
> leadership in general. The generation change should have taken at least
> a year ago, but then it got disrupted by the FOSCo thing which froze
> things for almost a year.
>
> I'm willing to keep my responsibility for swag production and
> distribution because it has many advantages to do it centrally in Brno.
> And most of the work has been done by Kv?ta recently anyway.
>
> But it's not only about well-specified roles. It's also about general
> coordination and making sure that things are happening. For example,
> we're supposed to have an EMEA FAD in December or we're looking for a
> Flock location, it was usually me who stepped up and made sure things
> started moving. I haven't had time this year and things have fallen
> apart.
>
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