The rule change in 2003 was discussed at length at a meeting with
external advisors: I hope I remember all of them:

Hans Werner Grosse
Kai Lindenberg
Markus Scherdl
G. Marzinzig
I think someone from the Swiss Soaring Federation
I think someone from the Austrian Soaring Federation

There was a paper on this meeting in aerokurier .

hans schrieb:

Frank schrieb:
I am creating a presentation on OLC for our club's annual banquet. I
would like to present some material on OLC's history, but I can't seem
to find very much. I have the wikipedia entry, but it is quite
brief. I also looked around on the OLC site, but couldn't find
anything there either. Anyone out there can tell me how the OLC got
started - where the original idea came from, things like that?

TIA,

Frank( TA)