On Thursday, 16 July 2015 11:54:40 UTC-6, Charlie M. (UH & 002 owner/pilot) wrote:
On Thursday, July 16, 2015 at 8:27:48 AM UTC-4, Sean Fidler wrote:
I want glider contest reporting to be more social but "I don't do facebook."

I want to be a cyclist but I don't want to buy a bike...

Good luck! ;-)

I don't believe I asked for the reports to be "more social", I wanted to point out that "well done reports" are a great way to know about things happening beyond the scoresheet.
I also wanted to give "props" to the volunteers that take their time to provide those reports.

Simple text online contest reports have been done for years, if others also like the videos or Facebook media, then fine.
Charlie Spratt's newsletter did a fine job, but after the fact.

Some contests can't find a volunteer to do reports, so you miss a lot of other things going on at the contest based on only seeing race results.

Again, to those that do the reports, I thank you.

PS, I miss Charlie S. "Good finish Charlie Sierra!".

I will start by thanking the volunteers that host and make contests happen. As stated above if there is enough time, energy or resource(s) available at the end of the day to write a report for the SSA site then icing on the cake.

I understand that not all folks use or prefer FB but it is a medium that is easy to setup and allows ANYONE participating in the contest to post pictures, stories etc etc.

I personally ask and encourage all folks that participate in contests to provide their perspective(s) and stories on a contest provided medium or ANY location of their own.

Ron Gleason