But, somewhat surprisingly neither the SHARE web pages on "Becoming a
Member" nor the page at the "Join SHARE" link from that page lay out the
basic requirements for becoming a member or the potential annual costs
involved with membership. Perhaps this is present somewhere in the
process of actually filling out an on-line membership request, but I
would think a potential member wouldn't be inclined to proceed down that
route unless corporate authorization had been granted to proceed -- and
the first question my boss asked when we first wanted to join SHARE was
the cost of membership. That was back in pre-web days, and the hard
copy information we had from SHARE at the time made costs much easier to
determine than the current web site.
It took me a while to find most of that information on the web site, and
I knew what I was looking for. This is pretty basic stuff that a
prospective member organization would want to know up front to evaluate
what SHARE would do to their budget. They shouldn't have to research
and understand the implications of lengthy Policy and By Laws documents
on the web site to figure it out.
Obviously if you could establish direct contact with someone at SHARE
they could no doubt immediately provide that information, but as others
have pointed out there may reasons that is difficult. The web site
could certainly stand some improvements in this area.
Joel C. Ewing
On 07/23/2014 04:20 PM, DASDBILL2 wrote:
> It has been my experience that many of the questions he asked in his OP are
> answered on the SHARE website.
> Bill Fairchild
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Clark Morris" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 2:41:16 PM
> Subject: Re: Beginners question about SHARE
>
> On 23 Jul 2014 09:57:59 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
>
>> Or you could write or call Share directly for friendly answers
>>
>>
>> Toll Free: 888.574.2735
>> Local: 312.321.5160
>> E-mail: [email protected]
>>
>> SHARE Headquarters
>> 330 N. Wabash Ave., Suite 2000
>> Chicago, IL 60611
> In Radoslaw's case, calls from Poland may be expensive and also
> afflicted by a 6 or 7 hour time zone difference. Hopefully one of the
> SHARE officers who are on this list will respond.
>
> Clark Morris
>> Lizette
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
>>> Behalf Of John Eells
>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 8:06 AM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: Beginners question about SHARE
>>>
>>> R.S. wrote:
>>>> I know a little about mainframes and about SHARE, but I don't know how
>>>> it's paid.
>>>> Can I simply pay and attend given SHARE conference or rather my
>>>> company hasve to become SHARE member and the send empleyr to the
>>> conference?
>>>> What about SHARE materials (presentations) ?
>>> It appears to me that you can pay to attend without being a member at a
>> different
>>> rate, from: http://www.share.org/p/cm/ld/fid=436
>>>
>>> When last I checked, a free registration allowed you access to the last
>> conference's
>>> proceeding.
>>>
>>> Perhaps one of the people involved in running SHARE will verify...a few of
>> them
>>> follow this list.
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> John Eells
>>> z/OS Technical Marketing
>>> IBM Poughkeepsie
>>> [email protected]
>>>
>>
--
Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR [email protected]
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