SLSA 2.0

As you all know the SLSA Group has been being used for six years now as a communications tool for SL sailors to announce races and sailing events in SL. It has always existed as a communications tool only and has resisted more than one attempt to turn it into an organization that exercised authority over how SL sailing was run, and what was “authorized”.

It is because of resisting this attempt by some to make the SLSA into a governing body that it has avoided the drama that has crept into other SL sailing venues.

Nber and I are dedicated to keeping the SLSA group what it has always been, a communications tool used to announce events of interest to all SL sailors.

While most everyone who uses the SLSA group to announce their events or learn of events would agree that the SLSA has never been used as a tool for spreading highly opinionated rhetoric, there are those who would love to see such drama and rhetoric become part of what SLSA is.

But even while we are pleased with how well the SLSA group fulfills its purpose, we recognize that SLSA can be improved.

For the last two months we have been working quietly in the background to take steps to expand the information provided to SL sailors and to expand the number of SL sailors that have a say in how that is done.

We are proud to announce the launch of a new and improved SLSA. For the sake of this article we will simply call it SLSA 2.0

During the past several weeks we have been looking at SL sailors seeking to identify level headed sailors and sailing leaders that might join in this new SLSA 2.0 as Officers. These officers will be in charge of running the activities of the newly organized SLSA group and its expanding communications roles.

We are very proud to announce that three superior SL leaders and sailors have agree to serve as the Officers of the new SLSA. They are: Chaos Mandelbrot, Charlz Price, and Justin Blade.

We are delighted that these three high quality sailing leaders have agreed to become involve in the continuing vision of providing a drama free and well respected tool to announce events and information to SL sailors.

A quick summary of the NEW features in the new SLSA that these three will be overseeing are:

• Posting rights for Boat Builders. 
• Posting rights for large SL Sailing Land owners who lease and sell to the SL sailing public. 
• Posting rights for those who run large events but are not otherwise race directors from Yacht Clubs (events such as Sail for Life for example). 
• A Featured Image Gallery for SL sailors to submit their best photography to be show on the SLSA home page. 
• A RSS feed that will repost in-world notices on the web site 

So everyone, click here to see the new website

and your introduction to "SLSA 2.0"