Re: ACM, anyone? (ISOC, CPSR, and some other outfit)

[ybiC]

I've held memberships with the Internet Society and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility for several years.   Dues are reasonable for individual and student members.   Wish I could say "active" member, but too busy with personal (Christian) volunteer efforts and with family for yet another outside commitment.

I've long wanted to join IEEE's Communications Society and Computer Society, but their dues were pretty high the last time I checked.

Hmmm... Does almost a year with this outfit count as membership in a professional society? {grin}
    cheers,
    Don
    striving toward Perl Adept
    (it's pronounced "why-bick")

[t'mo]

Nice point!

I don't want to imply that I consider the Monastery to be less valuable than membership in a professional society. Mostly I wanted to get a sample of other's reasons for/against joining a "professional society", as I've recently been thinking of joining the ACM.

(Note: I am also fortunate to be working for an employer who will reimburse the dues of joining one such group, which frees me of worry about cost.)