People ask themselves two questions when considering joining a professional organization:
What can the organization do for me? What does the organization do at large to benefit the profession? LOPSA will grow if it is overwhelmingly awesome in its answer to either of those questions. It’s in our nature (as people sure, but especially as pragmatic technology workers), to focus on the first question when we first encounter LOPSA. Unfortunately, it is very hard for a small organization to muster overwhelmingly awesome benefits that attract members. Instead, LOPSA should do great things which are available to as many people as possible. LOPSA should be so awesome at benefitting the profession at large, that it becomes the de facto professional organization. Then people will join just so they can say, “I support LOPSA!” LOPSA should make as much as possible of what it does, and provides, free and accessible. --Craig Constantine, http://constantine.name On May 14, 2014, at 2:06 PM, Derek Balling <[email protected]> wrote: This still does nothing, then, really, to answer the "Why should I pay money to join LOPSA?" question which LOPSA boards have been struggling to answer in a reasonable fashion for nigh on a decade.
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