Hi All,
I have an important announcement to make concerning the site. For the last going on four years I have had the privilege of running this place, herding a bunch of mad but informed and gifted paddlers. Well, with the events of today things have changed for me and in a nutshell work is taking over and I am finding it harder and harder to devote the time needed to maintain the board. I could be long winded about this but will keep it short. I am stepping down as Administrator of the site and handing it on to another member.
For me in my role as Admin it is important to check many things daily and now it has become a challenge. My time is short and other things in life are demanding to the point where I realized I was doing an injustice to the board. A while back I had a member offer to take over the Admin position and we started talking. In our many conversations I realized this person would be a perfect fit for keeping the board up and going on a daily basis. He has the desire to keep us going, has a great sense of community, knows that everything that is posted is important and with the amount of information/experience shared here knows it is worth the efforts to keep us going. I have tremendous confidence in his ability to run this board as well as Robin and I have done. As well like Robin did for me when I took over I will be riding as co-pilot to help with the transition. Believe me it does not happen overnight as it is a learning curve that changes daily.
So with that said the new guy behind the curtain will be DaveO, As I said I know he will do a great job with keeping this community going so please welcome him to the new job like you all did for me years ago.
With that being said I will say that these last almost four years running this board have been some of my best days and honestly worst days. I am proud to have done this and feel privileged to have been part of keeping this community up and running. I feel like I have meet new friends although distances prevent a face to face meeting but none the less a friend. I know you all will most likely want to kick me in the teeth but I'll say it again but I only steer this ship, it is all of you and your contributions, your sharing and caring, your devotion to this site is what keeps us going over all these years. Because of all of you this time spent herding has been an honor! I will still post on the board and try to be a contributing member.
To end this I will say that DaveO, myself and the IT guy are currently working on creating an Archive section of the board where things will not scroll off like all the other topics. I have thought about this for a long while now and we are taking actions to pull it off and it will be a, IMO, big bonus to this board. Stay tuned!
Thank you all for being the true stewards of CanoeTripping!
dougd
I have an important announcement to make concerning the site. For the last going on four years I have had the privilege of running this place, herding a bunch of mad but informed and gifted paddlers. Well, with the events of today things have changed for me and in a nutshell work is taking over and I am finding it harder and harder to devote the time needed to maintain the board. I could be long winded about this but will keep it short. I am stepping down as Administrator of the site and handing it on to another member.
For me in my role as Admin it is important to check many things daily and now it has become a challenge. My time is short and other things in life are demanding to the point where I realized I was doing an injustice to the board. A while back I had a member offer to take over the Admin position and we started talking. In our many conversations I realized this person would be a perfect fit for keeping the board up and going on a daily basis. He has the desire to keep us going, has a great sense of community, knows that everything that is posted is important and with the amount of information/experience shared here knows it is worth the efforts to keep us going. I have tremendous confidence in his ability to run this board as well as Robin and I have done. As well like Robin did for me when I took over I will be riding as co-pilot to help with the transition. Believe me it does not happen overnight as it is a learning curve that changes daily.
So with that said the new guy behind the curtain will be DaveO, As I said I know he will do a great job with keeping this community going so please welcome him to the new job like you all did for me years ago.
With that being said I will say that these last almost four years running this board have been some of my best days and honestly worst days. I am proud to have done this and feel privileged to have been part of keeping this community up and running. I feel like I have meet new friends although distances prevent a face to face meeting but none the less a friend. I know you all will most likely want to kick me in the teeth but I'll say it again but I only steer this ship, it is all of you and your contributions, your sharing and caring, your devotion to this site is what keeps us going over all these years. Because of all of you this time spent herding has been an honor! I will still post on the board and try to be a contributing member.
To end this I will say that DaveO, myself and the IT guy are currently working on creating an Archive section of the board where things will not scroll off like all the other topics. I have thought about this for a long while now and we are taking actions to pull it off and it will be a, IMO, big bonus to this board. Stay tuned!
Thank you all for being the true stewards of CanoeTripping!
dougd
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