after 3 years of trying the positive path and not seeing engagement, he has 
just got the shits with the whole thing and feels like giving the community a 
wake up call. i doubt there is much viewing of any of the social pages beyond 
existing community and in any case no one externally would give a crap.





> On 30 Jan 2017, at 10:50 AM, Ulrich Stauss <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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:[email protected]] On Behalf 
> Of Ulrich Stauss
> Sent: Sunday, 29 January 2017 22:55
> To: 'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.' 
> <[email protected]>
> 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:[email protected]] On Behalf 
> Of Ulrich Stauss
> Sent: Friday, 20 January 2017 13:36
> To: 'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.' 
> <[email protected]>
> 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
> http://player.5stream.com/16094
>  
> Ulrich
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aus-soaring [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
> Of Casey Jay Lewis
> Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2017 13:06
> To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
> <[email protected]>
> 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 <[email protected]> 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
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