Re: 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)
>
> _X_ Negative (with comments...)
Any increase in fees must be accompanied by a a reason,
e.g. "additional efforts are needed", or "in order to maintain the
current effort, in view of cost of living expenses ...".

Without such a rationale behind a fee increase, I have to vote no.

Alec Stanculescu
>
> ____ Abstain
>
> Comments: ...
>
> Thanks, and regards,
>
> Peter Ashenden
> DASC Chair
>
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Received on Mon Nov 15 08:55:46 2004