Is Gliding and Motorgliding International now dead?

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?

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
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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?

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.

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

John

(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

"Henk de Waard" wrote in message
om...
(JDFlishall) wrote in message
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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.

"ZASoars" wrote in message
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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.

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 ?

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" wrote in message
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"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