Is Gliding and Motorgliding International now dead?

[Nick Olson]

Is Gliding and Motorgliding International now dead?
Although I always questioned the 'international' bit
of the site, it had some great articles. Since Gillian's
depature the site doesn't seem to have been updated.
Has there really been no news for 15 days. Or is this
indicative of the SSA's new editorship of the site?

[tango4]

The Southern hemispheres season is just kicking off ( and it looks to be a
corker ) two world records have been claimed in Argentina, a new version of
the sporting code has been released.

Looks like the SSA is about to kill off what had become an excellent site!

Ian

"Nick Olson" > wrote in message
...
> Is Gliding and Motorgliding International now dead?
> Although I always questioned the 'international' bit
> of the site, it had some great articles. Since Gillian's
> depature the site doesn't seem to have been updated.
> Has there really been no news for 15 days. Or is this
> indicative of the SSA's new editorship of the site?
>
>
>
>

[ZASoars]

I have had a bad feeling about SSA's committment to "picking up the ball" and
running with it to keep this excellent site alive. In fact I contacted SSA (and
copied several SSA Directors) to ask if SSA is committed to doing just that .
So far I did not receive a direct reply from the Executive Director - and I do
not sense any real appreciation from SSA of how good and well supported this
magazine has been to members .Surely an SSA Director or two must realise this
has been the best site in the world for good daily updates on happenings in the
Soaring world. Perhaps some more SSA members who feel strongly about this
potential loss could send messages to their Directors to try and prevent the
slow death of this great magazine.

[JDFlishall]

I've really enjoyed this website. I truly hope SSA doesn't screw it up.

John

[Henk de Waard]

(JDFlishall) wrote in message >...
> I've really enjoyed this website. I truly hope SSA doesn't screw it up.
>
> John

I hope the site will continue.
BTW does anybody knows what happened with:
http://www.gliderforum.com/category-view.asp
It was a great forum site, but I cann't get to it for some time now.

Henk

[F.L. Whiteley]

"Henk de Waard" > wrote in message
om...
> (JDFlishall) wrote in message
>...
> > I've really enjoyed this website. I truly hope SSA doesn't screw it up.
> >
> > John
>
> I hope the site will continue.
> BTW does anybody knows what happened with:
> http://www.gliderforum.com/category-view.asp
> It was a great forum site, but I cann't get to it for some time now.
>
> Henk

Working fine.

[F.L. Whiteley]

"ZASoars" > wrote in message
...
> I have had a bad feeling about SSA's committment to "picking up the ball"
and
> running with it to keep this excellent site alive. In fact I contacted SSA
(and
> copied several SSA Directors) to ask if SSA is committed to doing just
that .
> So far I did not receive a direct reply from the Executive Director - and
I do
> not sense any real appreciation from SSA of how good and well supported
this
> magazine has been to members .Surely an SSA Director or two must realise
this
> has been the best site in the world for good daily updates on happenings
in the
> Soaring world. Perhaps some more SSA members who feel strongly about this
> potential loss could send messages to their Directors to try and prevent
the
> slow death of this great magazine.
The SSA Board met in Denver yesterday in advance of the Barnaby Lecture. I
asked a director if an editor had been selected and the answer was yes.

[Denis]

F.L. Whiteley a écrit :

> The SSA Board met in Denver yesterday in advance of the Barnaby Lecture. I
> asked a director if an editor had been selected and the answer was yes.

The best interest of "Gliding and Motorgliding International" was that
it was "international"... what if it is now ruled by SSA ?


--
Denis

R. Parce que ça rompt le cours normal de la conversation !!!
Q. Pourquoi ne faut-il pas répondre au-dessus de la question ?

[Nick Olson]

At 17:00 17 October 2004, F.L. Whiteley wrote:

> I asked a director if an editor had been selected
>and the answer was yes.

So who is it? And why is he/she not editing?

17 days and no updates!

Do they actually pay someone for this?

[F.L. Whiteley]

"F.L. Whiteley" > wrote in message
...
>
> "ZASoars" > wrote in message
> ...
> > I have had a bad feeling about SSA's committment to "picking up the
ball"
> and
> > running with it to keep this excellent site alive. In fact I contacted
SSA
> (and
> > copied several SSA Directors) to ask if SSA is committed to doing just
> that .
> > So far I did not receive a direct reply from the Executive Director -
and
> I do
> > not sense any real appreciation from SSA of how good and well supported
> this
> > magazine has been to members .Surely an SSA Director or two must
realise
> this
> > has been the best site in the world for good daily updates on happenings
> in the
> > Soaring world. Perhaps some more SSA members who feel strongly about
this
> > potential loss could send messages to their Directors to try and prevent
> the
> > slow death of this great magazine.
> The SSA Board met in Denver yesterday in advance of the Barnaby Lecture.
I
> asked a director if an editor had been selected and the answer was yes.
>
He was in error and I was mis-informed. After reading the 'Missile' today,
I'm perturbed.

Frank

[Greg Arnold]

What's the "Missile"?


F.L. Whiteley wrote:

>>
>>The SSA Board met in Denver yesterday in advance of the Barnaby Lecture.
>
> I
>
>>asked a director if an editor had been selected and the answer was yes.
>>
>
> He was in error and I was mis-informed. After reading the 'Missile' today,
> I'm perturbed.
>
> Frank
>
>

[F.L. Whiteley]

Dennis Wright's weekly tome. Thankfully it's a move toward openness WRT to
the workings of the SSA, the Hobbs office, Dennis' activities, projects in
motion, and hurdles faced. I consider it a patch until the eNewsletter is
ramped up. You might write the SSA office if you'd like to be included in
the distribution. I think Dennis hopes that it's redistributed among SSA
members. The 'Missile' is not milk and honey, but honest content.

Frank

"Greg Arnold" > wrote in message
news:C92ed.55851$hj.11562@fed1read07...
> What's the "Missile"?
>
>
> F.L. Whiteley wrote:
>
> >>
> >>The SSA Board met in Denver yesterday in advance of the Barnaby Lecture.
> >
> > I
> >
> >>asked a director if an editor had been selected and the answer was yes.
> >>
> >
> > He was in error and I was mis-informed. After reading the 'Missile'
today,
> > I'm perturbed.
> >
> > Frank
> >
> >

[Nick Olson]

Question:Could you tell me does the SSA intend to continue
supporting this online magazine? The site has not been
updated for 20 days now - if it is not to be continued
then I shall commence an alternative venture for the
benefit of the world-wide soaring community.

Answer:
Yes, we would like to continue this. We are looking
for someone to take the site over.

We have had numerous calls concerning this site, and
we're doing the best we can to find someone and get
it up and running again.

Regards,
Denise