RIP CAPortal
Its with a heavy heart that I found out yesterday that one of my favorite sites on the web has closed down. CAPortal was always on the cutting edge of CAP news, from the Iowa plan to latest photoID info, I hope those of us in the online CAP community can continue to carry the torch. This was Tedd's post on CAPTalk.net regarding its closure.
" First of all, thank you all for your membership.
My decision to remove Civil Air Portal from the online CAP community was not without much consideration, which I might add, went on for several weeks.
Although I did not discuss it with NIN last night, it is a fact that I will be taking on increased responsibilities as a Coast Guard Auxiliarist. In particular, I will be assisting an active duty Coast Guard Sector with revamping and maintaining it's website. Although I will enjoy serving the Coast Guard a lot, this has not been a factor in the closing of CAPortal. What has been, however, is my CAP duties at the squadron and even more so at the wing level. Like so many CAP officers, I wear several hats. To my credit, or misfortune, (depending how you look at it) some of these hats feel like the ten-gallon kind and I only have so much CAP time in a week to devote to them.
For those who admonish me for closing the site, I say how dare you! It is more than likely that you have been the problem rather than the answer. The mods I selected did a fine job policing the site without overstepping their boundaries. A real problem, however, is that a great many officers have refused to police themselves. Being a part of all the CAPolitical punditry has grown very tiresome, and has been surpassed only by witnessing the same in others.
Civil Air Portal has gone over it's allotted bandwidth for many months and costs me considerably. To those who have contributed much of their time there and are left feeling troubled, I share your feelings. I assure you I take no joy from closing CAPortal and I encourage you to use this site, as well as CAPblog to share your ideas and develop yourselves as officers.
Theodore J. Agnello, Maj CAP
Director of Information Technology
Wisconsin Wing"
Thank you Ted for all the time and effort you put into the site, it will be sorely missed, portal-people and all.
-Becks/SAREX
" First of all, thank you all for your membership.
My decision to remove Civil Air Portal from the online CAP community was not without much consideration, which I might add, went on for several weeks.
Although I did not discuss it with NIN last night, it is a fact that I will be taking on increased responsibilities as a Coast Guard Auxiliarist. In particular, I will be assisting an active duty Coast Guard Sector with revamping and maintaining it's website. Although I will enjoy serving the Coast Guard a lot, this has not been a factor in the closing of CAPortal. What has been, however, is my CAP duties at the squadron and even more so at the wing level. Like so many CAP officers, I wear several hats. To my credit, or misfortune, (depending how you look at it) some of these hats feel like the ten-gallon kind and I only have so much CAP time in a week to devote to them.
For those who admonish me for closing the site, I say how dare you! It is more than likely that you have been the problem rather than the answer. The mods I selected did a fine job policing the site without overstepping their boundaries. A real problem, however, is that a great many officers have refused to police themselves. Being a part of all the CAPolitical punditry has grown very tiresome, and has been surpassed only by witnessing the same in others.
Civil Air Portal has gone over it's allotted bandwidth for many months and costs me considerably. To those who have contributed much of their time there and are left feeling troubled, I share your feelings. I assure you I take no joy from closing CAPortal and I encourage you to use this site, as well as CAPblog to share your ideas and develop yourselves as officers.
Theodore J. Agnello, Maj CAP
Director of Information Technology
Wisconsin Wing"
Thank you Ted for all the time and effort you put into the site, it will be sorely missed, portal-people and all.
-Becks/SAREX
posted by Becks at 14:07
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