Re: Review of DASC membership fees

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Ashenden" <peter@ashenden.com.au>
To: <stds-dasc@eda.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 10:47 AM
Subject: 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)
|
      _X__ Negative (with comments...)
|
| ____ Abstain
|
     Comments:
The change in individual fees may not increase the income. However, at
least one WG participate will be lost. I will not remain involved with the
fee 250% the previous fee.
|
| 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...)
|
| ____ Abstain
|
      Comments:
I see many words. However, the interpretation is not clear. This needs to
be restated in a concise manner that leaves no ambiguity as to the intent.
Until the words and intent are clear I cannot support this change.
Further, any change should be applied to all DASC and IEEE-SA members.
Benefits should not be biased to Corporations. The IEEE is after all an
organization for engineers.
Additionally, implementation of a mutual extension should only take effect
when the IEEE-SA has agreed to grant the mutual extension. Granting
membership to IEEE-SA with only a request for mutual membership is a one way
street that appears to be a bad idea.
|
| Thanks, and regards,
|
| Peter Ashenden
| DASC Chair
|
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Received on Mon Nov 15 10:36:09 2004