Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)
Hi,
John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.
I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.
With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.
I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.
If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.
I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.
I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.
Thank you
Darragh Sherwin
Federation Discussion Group
The Irish Federation of Aquarist Societies will be formally reintroduced as the governing body in Ireland. Its committee consists of voted in members from all the clubs in Ireland. This makes it a well balanced organisation as all clubs are represented.
The Judging and Standards committee will also be revitalized. What this means for the future is the training of future Judges and the opportunity to train as a Judges. This is vital if we want to hold more shows in the future. Where shows are concerned it means that there will be a much larger pool of Judges to officiate. This in turn means that existing Judges won’t have to Judge at every show and will get a chance to show some of their own fish.
Where Insurance etc is involved for shows it will be cheaper to let the Federation take out the policy and all affiliated clubs will then be able to use this cover to host their own shows. This will hopefully cut the cost for shows allowing more of them to be staged.
A provisional date for a general meeting of all members from all clubs to vote in the committee of the IFAS has been suggested for March. More information will be posted on the forum but a firm commitment to meet somewhere in the middle of the country has been expressed. Tom will try to book a suitable venue for this meeting in the midlands. This should allow members from the Southern clubs to attend.
Gerry,
I hope the above information will clarify some of your questions, this is from Nessa’s minutes after the AGM 2008. I also included the link in case you missed any other decisions mad at the AGM.
Nessa is also retyping out the old Federations ‘Hand Book’ which can be read by all members of all the clubs, allowing everybody understand the breakdown (Committee members, meetings, rules and regulations etc)of the Federation. Hope this helps...........Tom.
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The forum is bleeding itself dry of their most prolific contributors because there is a set of rules for some people and another one for the rest of us. Have a look on anby of the recent posts. Not one of the SAS members even posts on any subject that could even be considred slightly controversial.
Holger
I had rely not noticed that:unsure: , any way there has been no agro, for over a week,
Russells discus post is quite controversial (acid water) but no agreement has burst out (yet;) ) I would say there has been more new members join this last week than in the last 6 weeks put together, quality is more important than quanity besides the word \"prolific contributions\", could be redefined as as verbal diarrhea, if this was the case, but I do think it was the case here. That would be a ecumenical matter!!!
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