Dear Marcella, dear all,

first of all, a huge thank you to you and to everyone who has or who will mail a well-disposed criticism :)

So, no, this part of the network was not discarded,
but indeed it took me some time working in the background in order to settle things among Netcommies and Subcommies,
and also traveling in Italy last week to meet some locals and their people (netcom trip report will follow).

About this list, since a lot of you think that this list has to remain as it is, and since this is your list (netcommies are not forever - locals are),
i think that you can all forget my previous e-mail.
RAINBOW-L will remain as it is, but it will have no official role for the Netcom (as it includes locals divided to 5 netcommies)

So, who am I ?

I'm Manos Valasis. I come from AEGEE-Peiraias (Vice-President, IT, Exchanges)
I'm 23, working as a computer programmer, and decided to postpone going to the army or for a master for a year in order to "spend" it for AEGEE.
I requested Italian locals
because I have a lot of good friends in several Italian locals (Roma, Bologna, Forli, Ferrara, Cagliari, Trieste, Messina, etc),
because i partially come from the ionian islands (corfu), and thus i am familiar with the Italian culture,
but mainly because this is the part of the network that i would really really like to contribute to.

Apart from the general strategy of the Netcom for the network,
i have added two high priority goals for Italy:

1) HR, HR, HR, HR, HR. attracting new (active) members.
2) improve the communation among locals, the Netcom and the CD (that is, for local level to European).

So, I want you to know and feel that me personally and my team are there for you.
You can call me on my mobile phone any time during day or night, even for the silliest thing.

That is not something that I'm typing just to make "public relations".

I am here for you, and so is my team, which by the way is the most important thing you should know.

I didn't intend to introduce them this way, but sometimes it's not bad to be driven by situations!

So, this is my precious team:

Nicola Siza from AEGEE-Cagliari, who will take care of AEGEE-Cagliari, AEGEE-Firenze, AEGEE-Pisa & AEGEE-Siena,
and will also be responsible for establishing new locals in the surrounding regions.
Dario di Girolamo from AEGEE-Palermo who will take care of Sicily & Malta (meaning AEGEE-Catania, AEGEE-Messina, AEGEE-Palermo & AEGEE-Valletta) and will also be responsible for establishing new locals in Sicily.
He will work together with the ex-subcomie of the area, Stefania Paola Pasqua from AEGEE-Cosenza,
who will from now on take care of AEGEE-Avellino-Benevento, AEGEE-Bari, AEGEE-Cosenza & AEGEE-Lecce

a little pause to the introduction, to report that Dario & Stefy will try a new model based on 2 subcommies per region
(so it's more like 2 people having 8 locals, and not 1 having 4 and an other one having an other 4)

Last but not least, the one, the man, the unique.........Diiiiiino Margiotta from AEGEE-Roma,
who switched to AEGEE-Roma, AEGEE-Salerno, AEGEE-Termoli, AEGEE-Teramo, AEGEE-Napoli

Two or three people are expected to be added to the team soon, but they will not deal with subcommissioning.

This is an open call for anyone interested in development of the Network:
Anyone interested in searching for new locals to establish and supporting them, please do e-mail me :)

So far, i think i've written more than Marcella, which is not good :P (no offence)

i'll let my team introduce themselves on their own!

One more open call before i say ciao,
any antenna interested in oraganizing a network meeting funded by youth in action from december 2008 till february 2009,
please contact me :)


last thing, in order to make you hate me a bit,
i decided to copy the lyrics of my favourite italian song/artist.
presenting: laure pausini - La solitudine :D

La solitudine fra noi
Questo silenzio dentro me
È l'inqueitudine di vivere
La vita senza te

Ti prego aspettami perché
Non posso stare senza te
Non è possibile dividere
La storia di noi due


We are here for you. SIncerely.
Don't hesitate contacting as even for the silliest thing!
In fact, please do contact as, even without a reason!


AEGEEfully yours,

Manos Valasis
and his happy team, Dario, Dino, Francesco, Nicola, Stefy


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On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Marcella Cortesi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Dear Manos,
 
 
First of all welcome!! I was actually worried about this part of the Network being left out discarded, but I see it was just momentary silence :) And I am happy you decided to count on the help of Subcommies who know well their locals. It's very honest and wise from your side to admit you need help of people from a side of the Network you have never worked in.
 
I guess that as for the name of the ML there is a misunderstanding: I understood you only want to change the name, not delete the archives of Rainbow-L, right? (please confirm). If you just want to change the name I see it in perfect coherence with the current situation. Just practically as Antonio pointed out: in Aachen we will change Netcommie again, therefore I guess that we will change again the name of the ML. Isn't it a bit confusing? Not that it's a huge problem, a name stays a name, but I wouldn't like if this lead to constant unsubscriptions...It's already difficult to make aegee members subscribe to one ML, we don't need to confuse them more and more.
 
Why not (as somebody proposed before) creating a ML just for your locals? Otherwise what will other Netcommies who take care of other team katja's locals do? Why can't you create a ML just for your locals? This not 'to leave good memories' but instead to leave Team katja's locals together for after Aachen, where hopefully another Netcommie will be chosen for them.
 
One thing I would like to ask you, as AEGEE member and convinced European.
 
Please, let's leave out the explanations of the non-existence of Regions. I am a bit sick of hearing that explanation "as may of you already know, the regions concept in AEGEE is discontinued, so that there is no such thing as 'regions' in AEGEE". I am quite an old member and I can tell you that Regions have NEVER existed, it has always been a "geographical task division" among Netcommies. The same it is now, it was just decided to change former names to the name of the Netcommie. And please, if you will happen to hear from time to time still the name "Rainbow" don't jump as if you were biten by a dog, I am sure that also a lot of people still uses the name "Balkania" from time to time...it is simply more practical, instead of saying everytime the name of the Netcommie. Believe me, it has only to do with that.
 
Consequently I got you want to change the name of the ML. Fine with me, perfect. Just let me say that it's not really coherent (ok, it sounded a bit funny! No offence, of course) that you mention the locals and then you mention the name of the Countries. Here people understand perfectly the concept of Network vs national level, more than you maybe think. Anyway, I guess it was just a way to make us understand you :)
 
Lastly, I want to wish you and your team good work and good luck: you have a big challenge ahead, for which I am happy you have energy and proactiveness.
 
I hope we will receive other messages from all other Netcommies taking care of former Team katja's locals, I think we deserve an explanation from the netcom on what you want to do with this part of the network till Aachen. I have to say I would have preferred as first email from you an email where you were introducing yourself, and where you were discretely sensing the situation, instead of entering like a panzer and communicating a decision without explaining it well. I tell you this as advice for the future...
 
Good luck again, and thanks for serving and protecting us!
 
Marcella
 
 
 
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Inviato: Mercoledì 28 maggio 2008, 10:40:12
Oggetto: [RAINBOW-L] GOODBYE RAINBOW-L

Hello all,

as may of you already know, the regions concept in AEGEE is discontinued, so
that there is no such thing as "regions" in AEGEE.

Rainbow-l's countries have been divided among several Network Commissioners,
so Rainbow-l on its current form will be discontinued as well.

This list will be renamed to MANOS-L,
which means that it addresses to locals that i have to "serve & protect"
till Aachen.

Those locals are,
Avellino-Benevento
Bari
Bologna
Cagliari
Catania
Cosenza
Ferrara
Firenze
Forli
Lecce
Messina
Napoli
Palermo
Pisa
Roma
Salerno
Siena
Teramo
Termoli
Trento

Valletta

Athina
Rodos
Peiraias
Patra
Thessaloniki

In other words, Greece, Malta, and Italy except the Northern part!

To all the others, you are more than welcomed to remain subscribed to this
list :)
To those who wish to unsubscribe, you will have to send a message to
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with the text unsubscribe MANOS-L

My aim is to be a close to you as possible, and that is why I have already
started visiting you, and why a very strong Italian Subcommissioners team
has been formed.

I will introduce them to you very very soon.

for anyone that wants to get in contact with me,

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AEGEEfully yours,

Manos Valasis - Network Commission
and his happy team, Dario, Dino, Francesco, Nicola, Stefania

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