RE: Review of DASC membership fees

DASC Members:
 
Since you are assessing fees to companies, call them beneficiaries, you
should keep the individual member fee low (Less than $100.00) to
encourage individual contributers, otherwise companies will start to
dominate by sending their representatives.The fee for companies making
should be even higher. I would propose 5 categories: A, B, C, D, E with
fees of 10,000, 5,000, 2000, 1000, 500.
 
Category A : Revenue > $1B
Category B: Revenue > $500M
Category C: Revenue > $100M
Category D: Revenue > $10M
Category E: Revenue of 10M or Less.
 
WAHanna
William A. (Bill) Hanna
Boeing SDB Programs
Boeing Technical Fellow-Advanced Avionics
MC S500-3100 Phone: 636-925-4802
St. Louis, MO 63166-0516 Fax: 636-925-3327
E-mail: william.a.hanna@boeing.com <mailto:william.a.hanna@boeing.com>

        -----Original Message-----
        From: Peter Ashenden [mailto:peter@ashenden.com.au]
        Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 7:26 PM
        To: stds-dasc-sc@eda.org; stds-dasc@eda.org
        Subject: Review of DASC membership fees
        
        
        Dear colleagues,
         
        The DASC procedures require that the fees for individual and
entity membership of DASC for 2005 be determined by 15 August, since
people can start renewing for 2005 after that date. Hence, I'd like to
open discussion of the question.
         
        Currently, we have a fee for individuals of $40 and no fee set
for entity membership. Given the possibility of entity membership in
the future, I suggest we determine that fee now also. Our procedures
state that "The amounts shall be determined so as to cover the
reasonable operating expenses of the DASC." Our Treasurer has prepared
a budget to give us an idea of expenses:
         
Item

Cost Per

Occurrence

Annual Cost

DASC-SC Meetings (room, telecommunication, food)

$ 5,000.00

4

$ 20,000.00

DASC-SC Telecon

$ 250.00

6

$ 1,500.00

Travel (chair)

$ 3,000.00

4

$ 12,000.00

Travel (other)

$ 3,000.00

2

$ 6,000.00

Equipment and Web services

$ 2,500.00

1

$ 2,500.00

Misc Exp

3000

1

$ 3,000.00

Total

 $ 45,000.00

         
        Our current fee goes nowhere near covering these expenses. To
get closer, I'd suggest the following as a first cut:
         
        For entity members, I'd suggest we mirror the IEEE-SA setup of a
tiered fee based on revenue. For example:
        - $500 for entities with revenue less than $1M
        - $1000 for entities with revenue of $1M to $1B
        - $2000 for entities with revenue more than $1B
        Along with this, the Designated Representative (DR) and one
Designated Representative Alternate (DRA) of the entity would get
individual membership, allowing them to vote in individual-based WGs.
         
        For individual members, I'd suggest we change the fee to $200.
         
        Under the above scenario, entities that only want to vote in WGs
and not be part of the ballot group can just pay the DASC fee. Entities
that want to vote in the WG and ballot pay both DASC and IEEE-SA fees.
Entities that just want to ballot only pay the IEEE-SA fee. This would
mirror the current arrangements for individuals in individual-based
projects.
         
        I'd like to invite members to comment ahead of a vote in the
near future on fees for 2005. Please respond to the stds-dasc@eda.org
list.
         
        Thanks, and regards,
         
        Peter Ashenden
        DASC Chair
         
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Received on Thu Jul 22 06:44:45 2004