RE: Review of DASC membership fees

DASC Group:

If you increase the individual membership over ~100.00 I will not be able to renew. It seems that this organization needs to be dissolved. God Bless you.

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

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Ashenden [mailto:peter@ashenden.com.au]
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 8:50 PM
To: stds-dasc@eda.org
Subject: RE: Review of DASC membership fees

Subject: RE: Review of DASC membership fees
To: stds-dasc@server.eda.org
From: "Robert J Myers" <Bob_Myers@raytheon.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 07:34:15 -0500

As one who occasionally sticks his head out of the sand, I'd have to agree with Shalom about this -- there needs to be a more concentrated effort on getting individual participation up, possibly targeting the user community. It might be helpful if there were some kind of SA/DASC membership drive targeting the IEEE community, via email/snail mail/conferences/etc..

I'm also concerned that almost 1/3 of the 1076 WG voting membership is now ineligible to vote. At what point do we lose the ability to maintain a quorum for voting?

Bob

Robert J. Myers
HW/FPGA Designer -- PSAS HW Engineering
Raytheon Systems Company
2501 W. University Drive M/S 8094
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(972) 952-4352

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I submit that an objective of DASC should be to encourage wide individual participation. This proposal would instead discourage such.

Shalom

> Keep membership in DASC limited to individuals. Increase individual
> fees
> (annual) to the range of $300-$500. We can expect the number of
> participants to drop by at lease a 1/3 (70-110) or more. Even at the low
> end of the scale, DASC membership dues will amount to some $20K a year.
> While this is not in line with the 'budget', I think we will have more
> credibility asking for help (meeting rooms, equipment, etc) when we have
> taken some steps to account for our real expenditures. I would also
> suggest other classes of membership: 5 year membership at 30% discount
> and life membership capped at $5000. DASC should have provisions to
> allow for membership at reduced cost for individuals that need such
> help.

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