Webmaster

Brett Davis was the Shoalhaven Bushwalkers Webmaster for almost 25 years (2000-2024). He joined the club in 1999 and received his life membership award in 2016. He led over 130 walks for the club, and was in the top 10 leaders of all time on the "Leaders Hall of Fame" list for number of walks led. In 2000 he was elected to the committee and created the club website.

During his time on the committee Brett was also the Ettremist Editor for 7 years (2000-2006) and the President for 2 years (2007-2008) when maximum two year terms were compulsory. In 2024 he resigned from the committee because of the events described in this secret history.

In addition, he assisted Barbara Robertson in compiling the club history in 2001, and he kept it up-to-date on the website until his resignation. He took the club's Walks Inventory - produced by Russ and Dawn Evans - and digitized it for the club website, where it was expanded over the years to include over 400 activities - many with his maps, track notes, KML files (which show walk routes in Google Earth), and GPX files, as well as links to almost 500 albums of photos he has taken on club walks.

Brett also set up and managed the club's Facebook and Twitter pages (the latter no longer exists) and he was also a regular guest speaker and slideshow presenter at Club general meetings which had always been held at night up until the events described in this secret history. He also represented the club in the annual Navigation Shield rogaine 9 times - 2001-2, 2004-9 and 2013-14.

Prior to resigning from the committee, he set up the Google sheets and forms for the club's Program and News pages, and despite his battles with the committee at the time, he assisted the newly formed IT team (which replaced him) in getting those two pages - which are vital for the club to function - onto the club's new website.

Since leaving the committee Brett has continued his efforts to help the club by making many suggestions for improvements to the new (and awful) policies and procedures that recent committees have introduced.

Unfortunately, the committee has not appreciated those suggestions and he has been punished for making them and had his membership cancelled - as this secret history shows ...

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