National Speleological Society Cave Diving Section

By Jason Richards

We’re on the road again, just crossed the US border on our way back home, after nearly a month of caving in Mexico.  Though I can’t give all the details, I wanted to send along the highlights and some thoughts for the wayward Mexican caver. Read more »

CDS BoD Meeting Agenda - 15 Aug 2010

At Ginnie Springs, FL

Revised - 07/16/10

12 Noon - Call to order

Old business: Read more »

When we switched to the new web server software we hoped to have a Web 2.0 site with a vibrant user community, sparkling discussions on our forums, a progressive online storefront, and valuable members-only content.  Over the last several months we've found that the membership would rather use the forums on CDF and TDS, the available storefront software does not integrate well with our accounting software (so we are using a third-party-hosted storefront), and we would rather just make all of the content available to everyone.  We have also found it nearly impossible to integrate the official membership list with the web site users list.

So we are eliminating logins for all general users.  We are still debating how to make the member list available in a form that does not cause the members to be spammed.  At some point in the future when we can manage the member/user lists better we might reinstate logins, but there are no specific plans to right now.

Essex Junction, Vermont
2-6 August, 2010

http://www.nss2010.com/

This year, the annual convention of the National Speleological Society will be held in Vermont near Lake Champlain.  Vermont may be a bit distant from our 'cave country', but unlike NFL, it is a nice place to be in August. Read more »

The new officers are:

Gene Melton - Chairman
Forrest Wilson - Vice Chairman
Wayne Kinard - Secretary
Tom McMillan - Treasurer
Frank Ohidy - Program Director (Property Manager)
Bill Rotella - Program Director (volunteers, committees)
Harry Averill - Training Chairman.