RE: Review of DASC membership fees

All,

> If we really value the contribution of these experts, we
> should not give them the message "pay up or you are out".

It has always been thus as far as DASC membership privileges. The only
question is how much do you need to pay. As always, ANYONE can
participate without paying any money to DASC. They just cannot vote.

I have seen plenty of emails and once again the discourse has quickly
jumped to hyperbolic. There are plenty of fallacies to extinguish.

Only 3 WGs for which DASC membership provides value:
All entity-based WG P&Ps are to be reviewed for the purpose of requiring
individual participants to be DASC members. This would provide the
desired orthogonality between entity and individual memberships.

DASC/CAG entity membership:
The wording is quite clear and there are no ambiguities. We cannot
force SA to recognize DASC entity members as SA corporate members.
However, it seemed reasonable to request such mutual recognition. In
fact, I don't think anyone expects any entity memberships for DASC, but
we felt it didn't hurt to provide that option (even without SA
recognition).

It is amazing to me how many people fall into one or more of the
following categories:

1) Their companies do not reimburse for their DASC membership.

2) That well compensated engineers cannot afford $60 more per year.

3) That many believe that, in the abstract, DASC should have a budget
and will spend a certain amount of funds to conduct its business. But,
they shouldn't have to pay for it, someone else should. Oz presented a
reduced budget to reflect concerns previously voiced.

The bottom line is that without funds to conduct our business, we go out
of business. If that is what you desire, then keep voting no.

-Steve Bailey
Received on Mon Nov 15 14:27:21 2004