Dear CAS Community, I'm forwarding a message from the JA-SIG Board of Directors about their new membership program. The program, started this year, provides a number of benefits, the most important being that organizations, like yours, who invest in JA-SIG products such CAS, can be assured that their investment will be sustained and continue to grow.
Take a look over the letter, and find out whether your organization can contribute back to the community by joining the program. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the JA-SIG Board of Directors, as directed in the letter. Thanks! -Scott =================================================== To the CAS Community- As you know, CAS is a project that is sponsored by JA-SIG, a global consortium of higher education institutions and corporations dedicated to sharing open technologies and applications among ourselves and the larger community. After seven years, JA-SIG has adopted a membership model to help us sustain our current projects and incubate new ones, cooperate and integrate more fully with other efforts, broaden international participation, and share organizational governance. Information about Institutional Membership and Commercial Affiliation—including a description of benefits and download links for membership applications—may be found on our website: www.ja-sig.org/membership. The annual cost of membership is modest and, for institutions, is scaled according to operating budget size (see the application for more information). If your organization finds CAS to be a useful component of your technology infrastructure, and if you appreciate the value of shared community effort in the interests of open source development, please help support our efforts by urging your organization to join JA-SIG. Initiatives like ours require community commitment—through code development, through sharing and helping, and through organizational support. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. You can send general queries about membership to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or email me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] On behalf of the JA-SIG Board of Directors, thanks in advance for your consideration. Best regards, Jonathan Markow JA-SIG Board Chair
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