Re: Review of DASC membership fees

Hello Peter and all,

Please find my vote on the 2 items below.

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

    ____ Affirmative (comments optional)

    ____ Negative (no comment)

    _X__ Negative (with comments...)

    ____ Abstain

    Comments:
The proposed 150% increase from $40 to $100 is unreasonably high.
It will not help solving the deficit, because it will discourage
DASC members from renewing the membership.
Furthermore, it will prevent people without sufficient funds
from joining DASC (e.g. students, self-employed or unemployed people,
people with lower income from other countries).
The voluntary technical contribution of such people provides a value
to DASC, so people should be encouraged instead of being unduly taxed.
As chairman of an IEEE WG and member of an EDA user company, I had the
priviledge to apprecriate the contributions of people thinking outside
the corporate box. We will be deprived from a pool of engineering
and scientific talent, if we seek financial compensation from the
individual contributors, in addition to the time and expertise they
already provide.
For the financial health of DASC, it is a far better idea to raise
funds from the market stakeholders through corporate sponsorship models.

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.

    __X_ Affirmative (comments optional)

    ____ Negative (no comment)

    ____ Negative (with comments...)

    ____ Abstain

    Comments: none

Best regards

Wolfgang Roethig, PhD
Senior Design Engineering Manager
NEC Electronics America
2880 Scott Blvd, Santa Clara CA 95050
Phone 408-588-5349
Fax 408-588-5434
email wroethig@necelam.com

Peter Ashenden wrote:

>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
>
>--
>Dr. Peter J. Ashenden peter@ashenden.com.au
>Ashenden Designs Pty. Ltd. www.ashenden.com.au
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>
>
Received on Sun Nov 14 13:42:37 2004