Review of DASC membership fees

Dear colleagues,

The DASC Steering Committee reviewed the membership fees at its meeting on
12 November (see http://www.dasc.org/meetings/2004-11/.). This message is
to ask you to review the recommendation and vote to approve the revised fee.
There are two recommendations to review (see below). Would you please reply
to me by email with your vote on each one. Since a 50% return is required,
would you please vote even if only to abstain.

The DASC-SC arrived at its recommendation by reviewing its operating
expenses and other potential sources of revenue. Currently, the IEEE
Computer Society funds our operating deficit to a reasonable amount. The
DASC-SC considers this to be a revenue contribution. The DASC-SC will also
seek contributions from other sources, including IEEE-SA and external bodies
with an interest in DASC activities. The recommended membership fees seek
to match these contributions.

Would DASC members please vote on the following:

1. That the fee for individual members be $US100 from 2005 onwards.

    ____ Affirmative (comments optional)

    ____ Negative (no comment)

    ____ Negative (with comments...)

    ____ Abstain

    Comments: ...

2. That:
   - DASC entity membership be extended to IEEE-SA Corporate members, and
   - entities be allowed DASC membership at the same fee structure used
     for IEEE-SA corporate membership and with a number of DASC individual
     memberships equal to the number of SA individual memberships granted
     to SA corporate members
     (see http://standards.ieee.org/sa-mem/corporate.html), and
   - the DASC request IEEE-SA to mutually extend membership to DASC entity
     members.

    ____ Affirmative (comments optional)

    ____ Negative (no comment)

    ____ Negative (with comments...)

    ____ Abstain

    Comments: ...

Thanks, and regards,

Peter Ashenden
DASC Chair

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