"Regulation via the backdoor"?

[Pacion]

A friend sent me an email a list of events, with text along the lines of:

"Other congresses supported by WASP! (World Association of Salsa Promoters)"

I googled it :lol: and only one entry came up for it, which was a logo on a french website.

Hmmm. I have my suspicions :shock: about who is behind this but I am not going to say anything until google verifies it. Is this supposed to "validate" some of the many salsa events? Help raise standards? Control who gets involved in promoting/organising events through some sort of membership criteria/who can teach at these events? The end is upon us, I tell ya! :lol: If my totally unconfirmed suspicions ARE confirmed, is this going to be some kind of secret squirrel, closed shop network?

Has anyone else come across "WASP!"? Personally, I am not sure I like the acronym very much, is my first reaction, exclamation mark or not! :oops:

Do you think the time is right for some sort of "professional body" as you would have with engineers, doctors even people in advertising/marketing?

[KevinL]

What do White Anglo-Saxon Protestants have to do with Salsa???

[pygmalion]

I'm dying to know who you have in mind, Pacion. But I respect your decision not to say.

If they're not American, whoever they are, they may have no idea that WASP is a common acronym already. Who knows?

Needless to say, I'll google. 8)

[Genesius Redux]

I dunno--is WASP the dance version of SPECTRE? SMERSH?

[SDsalsaguy]

Ack! What an absolutely horendous notion if it's anything other than a support network between promoters . . . yeah, right!

[Pacion]

Ack! What an absolutely horendous notion if it's anything other than a support network between promoters . . . yeah, right!

Yes, my thoughts exactly. :oops: I don't know how Pygmalion fared, but as mentioned, Google only brought back one site for me.

I'm dying to know who you have in mind, Pacion. But I respect your decision not to say.

Thanks :wink: I would rather not use names until I learn more. Don't want to rant about anyone unnecessarily.

If they're not American, whoever they are, they may have no idea that WASP is a common acronym already. Who knows?

Needless to say, I'll google. 8)

Hmm, if it is who I think it is, they are "well read"/"well informed". Even if they didn't know that WASP stands for "White Anglo Saxon Protestant", even the word "wasp" as in bee, which usually involves bee stings and therefore pain - well, not a good mental image for me :? (not that I have been stung or am allergic to them. It is just the "you say", "I think/feel" thingy going on.)

[pygmalion]

That's all I found as well, Pacion. Hmm. :?

[peachexploration]

A friend sent me an email a list of events, with text along the lines of:

"Other congresses supported by WASP! (World Association of Salsa Promoters)"

I googled it :lol: and only one entry came up for it, which was a logo on a french website.

Hmmm. I have my suspicions :shock: about who is behind this but I am not going to say anything until google verifies it. Is this supposed to "validate" some of the many salsa events? Help raise standards? Control who gets involved in promoting/organising events through some sort of membership criteria/who can teach at these events? The end is upon us, I tell ya! :lol: If my totally unconfirmed suspicions ARE confirmed, is this going to be some kind of secret squirrel, closed shop network?

Has anyone else come across "WASP!"? Personally, I am not sure I like the acronym very much, is my first reaction, exclamation mark or not! :oops:

Do you think the time is right for some sort of "professional body" as you would have with engineers, doctors even people in advertising/marketing?

I actually remember seeing this a year ago but they have since taken this site down. :D

[Pacion]

:shock: The email he received was just this week! So it looks as though it might have either gone underground for a little while :wink: or, it has been resurrected.

Please PM Pygmalion and I. Enquiring minds would like to know :wink: :lol:

[peachexploration]

It really wasn't a huge site so to speak. Just really a blue background with the W.A.S.P logo and list of who belonged to them. I remember it because everytime I would try to go there, it would crash my machine. :x It was just mainly a list of names. At least that was all I could see before the crash. :roll: Same people? Same organization? Not sure. But they were located in europe. Hope this helps. :)

[Pacion]

Not sure. But they were located in europe. Hope this helps. :)

Only slightly :wink: Thanks though. My nose is pressed to the window pane on this one :lol: