Ok I have read all the questions as best I can over the last few days and frankly It put me off the whole thing ...
Let me say to start with anything written here is my personal oppinion and not ment to be an attack on anyone particular or anything but if you think the cap fits then by all means wear it , I spent the last 12 months biting my lip listening to people have a pop at this years annual mega event because of there own agenda with other events and a like, in fact my first official task for this years mega was to work with the reviewers to lock the event page so we could stop its Needs Achieve logs from a certain individual....
Now where shall I start ...
As for the disabled caching question I hold my hands up and say I am not good at this and should do better and I'm sure Pete ( microdot ) can give me some pointers with this , more advertisement and endorsement of it with maybe something like a reviewer did a while back with an incentive scheme..I appreciate in this modern world we should be doing more and with the success of the Paralympics this year would be a good start.
As for how the GAGB is seen around the country ,I'm not sure how it was so eloquently asked but I for one did see it as a somewhat southern based operation and remember the elation and euphoria when Terry ( Country Matters ) was elected to the committee from the North west ... and I would like to applaud him on his fine work with the seeker magazine and hope he can keep this up if re-elected, now to take this broader Liverpool and Manchester fans will never like each other but what they do have in common is they love the game...so when someone was shot down in flames as to the mention of people being elected on regional location ...why not have regional representatives for the GAGB and I hope at least one of the Scottish candidates makes it onto the committee to maybe address what seems to be a long standing rift...to drag this back to my point, people do have differing opinions and issues with reviewers, Garmin and Groundspeak to name a few but let's not HATE the Game...
As to the question of what I can bring to the committee well frankly I don't know,
I play the game and I enjoy it , I have made friends from all over the world who I keep in contact with via social networking and forums , I attend as many events as I can around the country to catch up with friends and meet new ones ..I think caching in this country has had an absolute fabulous year in terms of the social aspect of caching with 4 Mega events of which I managed to attend 3 all completely different in there own right..
I appreciate that like it has been said some people are not as social ,but that does not mean that they cannot gain anything from the GAGB if they realized it existed as its amazing how many people don't...but with some less obvious promotion at smaller events rather than the Mega events, I'm sure the members would grow and this would lead to a new breed of member who is not so old school and maybe just caches with a phone....heaven forbide it ...
Leading to a whole new world ..please don't think I'm having a go at the well established cachers here but let's face it you don't have to drive 20 miles to your nearest cache and not every other one is an ammo can, I'm afraid like everything things have changed and nothing the current prospective committee do will change this that is down to you and your choice of where and how you play the game.
Now I'm one of 14 people prepared to give up some of my time for free to help with something that might just make the game we all play a little bit better for all ...it might not but we are prepared to give it a try.
I don't posses to be the most articulate and my grammar and spelling is not the best but I think you can see where I'm coming from ,
While I continue to ponder my decision I shall continue to play the game because I love it...
And wait to be burnt at the stake...