Re: Friends. Features. Freedom. First. Forever.

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Congratulations Remy.  Incredible what places talent can take you.

I wish you the best success and lots of fun in your next adventure.

--McD

On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 23:06 -0400, Remy DeCausemaker wrote:
> Fedorans,
> 
> When I packed up my entire life and moved to fair Rollywood this past
> January to be closer to Red Hat Tower and dive head-first into this
> role as the first ever Fedora Community Action and Impact Lead, it
> was
> an absolute dream for me. Every day, I'm working with some of the
> most
> talented, motivated, brilliant hackers, designers, and volunteers
> that
> build and ship the operating system at the core of my digital
> existence--not to mention much of the enterprises and infrastructure
> around the world. The scale of problems, and the speed at which we
> are
> solving them, is still absolutely mind-blowing to me.
> 
> I love my job.
> I love my team.
> I love the Fedora Community.
> I love Red Hat.
> Wholeheartedly.
> Thank you, all of you.
> 
> Never did I imagine there would ever be another opportunity that
> could
> sway me from this path, which I flipped my life upside down to
> pursue... but then I got
> the call...
> 
> Things are moving quickly, and I don't have all the details yet, but
> it looks like I'm going to be the first ever Open Source Campaign
> Manager for the next President of the United States, Hillary Clinton.
> 
> I have to be at campaign HQ in Brooklyn NY ready to hit the ground
> running on Monday.
> 
> I will be spending my last 24 hours as a Red Hatter flipping my
> entire
> life upside down, again, and I wanted to give the community one last
> window to ping me with any outstanding business or questions, and
> direct you to the appropriate channels thereafter.
> 
> After tomorrow, I'm going to be packing up and moving to Brooklyn to
> work 8 days a week until roughly Thanksgiving ;)
> 
> In my absence, here is a list of points of contact for FCL business
> (cc'd above,) until my replacement arrives.
> 
> For all things related to:
> - Fedora Council, Matthew Miller: mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> - Fedora Budget, Events, and ambassadors, Joe Brockmeier: jzb@redhat.
> com
> - Fedora Engineering/Infrastructure, Paul Frields: pfrields@fedorapro
> ject.org
> - Community Operations/CommBlog/Mktg/Misc, the Community Operations
> Team: commops@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> I know the timing is less than ideal, with Red Hat Summit next week,
> and Flock in August, but, I believe this position will bring the most
> visibility to the work and principles that Red Hat, Fedora, and the
> FOSS community stand for.
> 
> I find strength, purpose, and peace in these words of George Bernard
> Shaw:
> 
> "...I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community,
> and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
> 
> ...Life is no "brief candle" for me. It is a sort of splendid torch
> which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn
> as
> brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."
> 
> This is one of those "once in a lifetime" moments in our history, and
> if the Free and Open Source Software Movement can be part of that,
> then I'm willing to answer the call.
> 
> Happy Hacking,
> --RemyD.
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