I support the Community part:
I think we need EXPERIENCED people for connecting contributors with contributions. I think there was a missing communication gap between the staff, the communities and Regional Coaches program is not my cup of tea since they are not doing something I can see.
We have a lack of leadership, BECAUSE of course: nepotism.
Traveling, swag and participation inside some teams has become (sometimes) a matter of “friendship” and it’s not an open or transparent process.
I REALLY want to see that the people, that are picked, are because they document, help and contribute, in a certain way, with THE SAME quality as an employee or similar.
Also, communities are lost because oldest community members think they have the BEST REASON to be leaders because of the time contributing, but for me it shouldn’t be that way.
I think people should EARN with facts and merits a place as a leader, being trained every certain time, document EVERY TIME they go to a trip, people should TOTALLY have a delivery from every trip or project.
Why I’m saying this? Because I have one year contributing and I’ve earned every trip, every team work and every event because I document everything, make the time to contribute, give results and share everything I can with my team, thing that I cannot see with every community member, at least not inside mine.
I think that 50% of the people are contributing because they really want to be rewarded with trips and stuff, we totally should do something to low this kind of people. I know we can’t forbid to be part of the community, but let’s have more responsabilities because when it’s time to take a decision, these people only appear for saying “no” and this sloooowwws some processes for people that are active and contributing really hard.
Documentation and complete trainings should be one of the main topics so people can be considered active, because if not, they only appear when events are heading.
Also, localization is really important. People from other countries feel apart because of language communication issues and not sharing native language information in real time.
For the Clubs: I’m a proud captain but I think communities don’t see that people that learn how to read, write, and participate inside mozclubs are potential contributors.
Clubs and communities don’t work together because they don’t understand that one is for contributing and the other is for learning, communities want to do everything because if they don’t do amazing things, they won’t be awarded.
I really want to see these both working together.