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. > -- > docs mailing list > docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/docs@lists.fedoraproject. > org -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
