>From the GFA Facebook page: "Due to complaints from a vocal few who oppose the facts the last post had been deleted at their request. It's s sad day when the noise of a few drown out the facts however unpalatable they maybe. We cannot move forward until we accept where we are and recognize the need for change in the way we see the current situation and change can only happen with hardwork, burying our heads on the sand because we don't like what we are hearing will achieve nothing."
Do we really need the dirty washing of one (or more?) frustrated individuals displayed on the public shopfront window of the GFA? How is that going to come across to (prospective) members and the general public? How embarrassing for the organisation and insulting to the volunteers who carry it. This is stuff that needs to be sorted out in the board room, not in public. Just floating ideas (in such a negative tone at that) and expecting the membership to jump to it is a public display of bad leadership (and in my view as good as a resignation letter). Putting meat to those ideas and implementing change in an enthusiastic manner is what is needed instead. Ulrich From: Aus-soaring [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.base64.com.au] On Behalf Of Ulrich Stauss Sent: Sunday, 29 January 2017 22:55 To: 'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.' <aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au> Subject: [Aus-soaring] GFA Negative Advertising and Censorship? Has somebody in GFA Marketing and Development lost their marbles? The attached post essentially blaming the membership for "not getting off their collective butts" continues a string of similarly negative posts mainly on Facebook and has prompted quite a few comments from upset members, several of which - including mine - were removed and at least in my case I am now blocked from the GFA page. The same happened to me in response to my remark/question I posted in the thread below which I had initially posed in an FB comment on the WGC2017 Benalla page: the comment was deleted and I was blocked from the page. Rather than blaming the general membership for not magically implementing ideas that somebody may have floated at some stage how about some effective leadership and change management from whoever posted these rants and blocked me from the pages (I am assuming "they" are both the same person). It would also be a good idea to add the name of the person responsible to anything they post on behalf of the GFA. Just my thoughts. Ulrich -----Original Message----- From: Aus-soaring [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.base64.com.au] On Behalf Of Ulrich Stauss Sent: Friday, 20 January 2017 13:36 To: 'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.' <aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au <mailto:aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au> > Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Worlds coverage Does anyone know why the live streaming comes online at the end and not already for the Opening Ceremony? Also, what were the problems initially? The organisers seem to think that it was "Due to technical issues, Australia's ancient Internet system" (which I think is not good form to post on a public and official web forum) and offered another link. Both streams now seem to work well though at least for me: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLmdBix3H_E> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLmdBix3H_E <http://player.5stream.com/16094> http://player.5stream.com/16094 Ulrich -----Original Message----- From: Aus-soaring [ <mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.base64.com.au> mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.base64.com.au] On Behalf Of Casey Jay Lewis Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2017 13:06 To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. < <mailto:aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au> aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au> Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Worlds coverage Another John Styles rant I suspect. Carries a lot of anger that one. CJ iPhone Transmission > On 18 Jan 2017, at 10:33, Richard Hatch < <mailto:rhatch...@gmail.com> rhatch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Can anyone enlighten me to the comments posted from the GFA and the > WGC in relation to the sponsors yesterday. Seemed pretty weird and childish. They have been deleted now I see. > > Ritch > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > <mailto:Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au> Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au > <http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring> http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list <mailto:Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au> Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au <http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring> http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list <mailto:Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au> Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au <http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring> http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
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