Hi all,

OKIJIBAWA summarized the past CS Newsletter and asked in the CouchSurfing Communication Groups what the Collective in Thailand actually achived, as there wasn't anything in the newsletter... a good question, nobody really knows, do you know?

» I am sorry to be harsh but this is becoming comical.
» Congratulations on the professional and well written Newsletters! However,
» I am sorry to point out that they contain very little information of what
» the collective has accomplished considering the time, money and resources
» used. Not to even point out that a full 1/4 of the newsletters aren’t even
» about the Thai Collective (but the Alaska Collective?) and the first
» newsletter really is only a re-hash of the participants at the collective
» and is essentially about the same as the original Thai collective
» announcement itself. So that is ½ of the newsletters that clearly provide
» nothing new.
»
» 1. Where is the useful information of what happened at the collective?
» 2. Is this “no information” policy an “official” policy because it
» does seem like it is being done on purpose as some sort of
» coordinated effort to keep everone in the dark?
» 3. Where is the accountability of what and how the resources of this
» member supported webpage are used to feul a year round “full-time nomadic
» headquarters” (is this a joke or is CS serious about spending resources on
» support of a year round moving caravan of volunteers instead of utilizing
» more remote teams/communication or even setting up a small cost
» efficient central office somewhere)?
» 4. Really, are we just supposed to eventually loose interest from this
» information vacuum and just stop caring?
»
» Again, sorry to be harsh but this is making less and less sense with each
» newsletter.
»
» from Thailand Collective Newsletter - Issue #1 CONTENT: basically
» only introduced the participants, and NO information
»
» from Thailand Collective Newsletter - Issue #2 CONTENT: basically
» discussed the move to Pai, departure of Dodie, new arrivals, and
» introduction to new expert team groups/links, and yet these links really
» have little content and mostly are conduits to simply make requests for
» more volunteers. You can’t just ask people to volunteer to … “volunteer”,
» but you need to provide solid foundation of the cause and the meaning and
» goals of the volunteer effort.
»
» from Thailand Collective Newsletter - Issue #3 CONTENT: highlight
» of NVC, tech team info, newsletters translated (just PR because they don’t
» contain info on the collective) however … “With only six weeks left at this
» Collective, all participants are focused …..and we can’t wait to let you
» know what has been achieved in our update next month!"
»
» from Thailand Collective Newsletter - Issue #4 CONTENT: NO CONTENT,
» as promised previously in Issue #3 except more promises of information to
» come and worse announcing the next collective, … ”We’ll have another
» edition of the Collective News in early April that highlights the many ways
» CouchSurfing has changed and improved as a result of the efforts of the
» expert teams formed at this Collective. .... CouchSurfing Collective isn’t
» just a one-time special event; it’s our veritable full-time nomadic
» headquarters.”
»
» Source