Editing Minutes 3rd Dutch Ambassasors meetup (section)

=Netherlands Group Coordination=

·         Considering the Dutch CS-groups, we decided to base the structure on provinces. Giuseppe will try to make a clickable map to put on the Netherlands main group page, so that people can immediately click to the region they are looking for. 

Inactive groups will be deleted (after talking to the moderator about it), double ones can be put together. A moderator should mainly literally moderate. He or she can also welcome new group members, but this should depend on the group and the person joining. Just use your common sense to decide whether you think it is needed or not! 

Ramon will continue this job. If you have suggestions or ideas, please contact him. 

·         Giuseppe will write some manual for our group communication. 

§         For discussions, use the CS Group

§         For amb-meetings, CS Events, if people are added we can also use that to communicate with the group.

§         For documents, use the Google group

§         For things that are also open for outsiders, use the wiki pages

If new members are added, the other members of the group should be informed about that. To prevent a too big amount of members of the organisation group, it seems to make sense to take only foreigners in who are related to the Netherlands (like Dutch Nomadic Ambassadors abroad, or people like Chris who work a lot together with Dutch cities), in general, one representative of our neighbouring countries (next to the ones we have very direct connections with), should be enough. 

·         It is possible to get a third country ambassador. Giuseppe says that being active in CouchSurfing and getting an idea of the international situation can also be done in some workgroups. 

Some different tasks for country ambassadors are mentioned. 

§         They should have an overview of the city ambassadors and take care about them

§         They are the link between the Dutch organisation and the outside world. 

§         They have a motivating role

§         It would be nice if the country ambassadors can develop some vision where we want to go to with this organisation group. 

Rose says that since she applied, so many things changed in Amsterdam. Her help is needed in Amsterdam for now. Paul advices to ask active members to help, also without a flag.

Aldo differentiates three kind of jobs for country ambs. The first one is mainly online, in taking part in group discussions, promote and represent the Netherlands in international groups, greeting people and so on. These jobs seem to suite Rose. The second part is meeting people, show your face, promote CouchSurfing on meetings and so on. This is what Henri is good at. The thing that is missing is someone who has a broader overview, who can take care about the organisational part and brings up things among ambassadors.

Both Liza and Giuseppe thought about applying as a third country ambassador. Giuseppe has his doubts for being not Dutch and is very likely to leave the country in about two years. Everybody, including Giuseppe, will be very happy if Liza will apply for the third country ambassador position. The situation in Utrecht is very stable with Jasper as active city ambassador. Liza will think about it and inform us before the 9th of September, the next deadline for country ambassador applications. If she will apply, Giuseppe can always help if things need to be done.