If you kite you need to join

Pros - insurance

Couldn't agree more, but what we need is feedback from WAKSA.

If they are struggling to get things done due to other committments then they need to come on here and ask for help.

There are some sub-committees running at the moment and they are doing a great job, but the Pelican Point Users Group was started (from what I have read www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1613) out of frustration because nothing was happening from WAKSA.

I don't know the user names (for this forum) of WAKSA committee members (other than Ian Young) so they may well be posting on here. Maybe they should make it clear that they are a WAKSA committee member?

Even if it's simple things like typing up some minutes, producing a newsletter (we could send an electronic one via email to save costs), ringing around getting quotes for signs, gettting the website up and running, or just helping promote WAKSA more (this could be a couple of people just going round the kite spots at the weekend and giving people who aren't members some information and application forms); us, the members may be able to help. But if we don't know we can't do anything.

Come on WAKSA, tell us where you need some assistance and let's get this show on the road!

I know it keeps being said that there is a financial interest in certain individuals being on the WAKSA committee, but anyone who has ever been on a committee knows that it's a thankless task.

The time that the committee members put into WAKSA could be spent on their own businesses / jobs, and therefore, how is there financial benefit in it?? Wouldn't they be better off spending the time making a quid??

I still fail to work out this mentality...

To kick things off, I'm happy to offer my services in preparing a newsletter and either emailing it out or posting it on the Seabreeze forum.

And if WAKSA need a hand with a website then I am more than happy to help out there. I develop e-business systems/websites for a living; I have dedicated servers for hosting so it won't cost WAKSA a cent!

I know WAKSA does supposedly have a slot on the AKSA site, but I've never managed to get any pages to come up, or have I got the wrong address www.aksa.com.au/wa ?

Oiweb, you have the correct URL - it's just one of many frustrations WAKSA has had with AKSA over the last 18 months. Steve Carlson put in a huge effort in developing the first site guides that were up on the old AKSA website almost two years ago - they lost it all when they changed web hosts and we're still waiting for the ability to edit the WA area - recently gave up and are now starting our own thanks to Deano, Jan and Graeme.


Cheers,
Ian Young
www.flysurf.com.au
0414 716 812