RE: Review of DASC membership fees

John,

The IEEE Computer Society, under which the DASC is recognized, has membership defined as individuals and entities. Your statement that the DASC should be limited to individuals is not congruent with the sponsor's policies and procedures.

-Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-stds-dasc@eda.org [mailto:owner-stds-dasc@eda.org] On Behalf Of John Michael Williams
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 12:59 PM
To: stds-dasc@eda.org
Subject: Re: Review of DASC membership fees

Oz Levia wrote:

> Evan, All,
> ...
>
> Proposal:
>
> Keep membership in DASC limited to individuals.

I agree with this: IEEE is an organization of individuals.
Corporations can join EDAC or a similar group. If invited to "join" DASC, they should get a free ride on the membership fees of the person(s) representing them.

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.
>

I think the rest of this is totally out of line.

DASC is about as big as five typical IEEE SA working groups. DASC-SC is smaller than most working groups.
Why should the DASC budget exceed that of a working group?

-- 
                          John
                      jwill@AstraGate.net
                      John Michael Williams