Derek, The general feeling (in TAB) is a society needs to be about 1,500 members to be able to substain itself long term. This provides enough members for the society to have TACs, symposium papers and some form of a journal. There is some overhead costs to be covered as well, the more members the easier it is to cover those costs. Up until last year the society was in the RED, however we are now in the black. For us to turn on access to symposium papers in Xplore is about $8,000 a year in costs to the soceity. Below 1000 members we can not afford it, above 1000 members we can turn it on. About 5 years ago when we had about 400 members the PSES BoD put together a 5 year plan that said at the end of this year we would be at 1,000 members. For the first few years we were more concerned with TACs, symposiums, and other things that added value to society membership. Now it is time to focus on building membership. The IEEE is a complex organization. All societies are part of what is called TAB, which standands for Technical Activities Board. TAB has a management committee called TMC which stands for TAB Management Committee. It is TMC that is pushing to sunset any function that is not holding its own. Be it a journal, magazine or society that is nor financial solvent. When our society goes into the review process at the end of this year I fully expect to be able to derail the sunsetting of our soceity. However we need to make a reasonable effort to increase membership. Promoting membership on the list is one of the efforts towards that end. Being an Affiliate member of the society means you are not a member of the IEEE and are just a member of the society. It is lower cost method of being a member of a single society.
Jim ________________________________ From: Derek Walton <[email protected]> To: Jim Bacher <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 7:56:44 AM Subject: Re: IEEE PSES / Please Read Good evening Jim, This must surely be some form of jest: all be it a twisted one. If it isn't, feed back must be given to the crazy idiot that even considered such action, that it is intolerable. I would like to have the proposers name made public so all voting members can make their thoughts known come election time. In protest I WILL NOT join the ieee this year: I had planned to do so at the EMC symposium. I suggest other list members make their thoughts known. Sincerely Derek Walton L F Research Jim Bacher wrote: > Dear emc-pstc Member: > > We wanted to make you aware of our need to increase PSES membership by the end of this > year. If we do not increase membership from 600 members to at least 1000 members by the > end of the year, there will be a movement to shut down the Product Safety Engineering > Society in 2010. I feel the society is too important to just throw up our hands and > give it up. If you have been a member of this email discussion list for any amount > of time you know how valuable the list is. Even though the list will not go away if > the society goes away, I do not want to allow the society to fail. > > To join only the society (not be a member of the IEEE) you may join as an affiliate. > The cost is approximately half of what a full member of the IEEE would cost. To join > go to: > http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/societies/PSE043.html > > Affiliate part of the Dues are show below. Add on the society fee (to the amount show > below) of $35 for full year (after August 16) or $17.25 for a half year. > > Full Rate Half year rate > > IEEE Regions 1-6 (USA) 64.50 32.25 > > IEEE Region 8-10 64.50 32.25 > > IEEE Region 7, GST 67.73 33.87 > > IEEE Region 7, HST 72.89 36.45 > > Region info available at: http://www. eee.org/web/geo_activities/home/world_reg.html > Why be a member information at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/membership.html > > > Thank You, > > Jim Bacher > President IEEE PSES > http://www.ieee-pses.org > http://www.psessymposium.org/ > > - > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> > > All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: > http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc > Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. > > Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ > Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html > List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html > > For help, send mail to the list administrators: > Scott Douglas <[email protected]> > Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> > > For policy questions, send mail to: > Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> > David Heald: <[email protected]> > - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> David Heald: <[email protected]> - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher <[email protected]> David Heald <[email protected]>
