Re: [Tccc] Cost of attendance from developing countries / in general

Saikat Ray is correct and this is exactly the point I am making. We can try to decrease expenses by not charging conferences for IEEE staff time. Non-IEEE members already pay much more dues at conferences.
These are all suggestions to discuss, we can take some and drop some.
Ibrahim Habib

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>Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:16:24 -0500
>From: Henning Schulzrinne <hgs@cs.columbia.edu>
>Subject: Re: [Tccc] Cost of attendance from developing countries / in general
>To: Saikat Ray <raysaikat@gmail.com>
>Cc: habib@ccny.cuny.edu,tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu,Roch Guerin <guerin@ee.upenn.edu>,Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu>
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>To complement what Joe has already said: A very large fraction of the IEEE membership is not academic, but rather practitioners. The IEEE membership dues support these activities, not just the more academic activities. Thus, I think a "rob Peter to pay Paul" proposals are not really all that helpful in this discussion.
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>Henning
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>>
>> I think that the point Ibrahim wanted make is that we already pay
>> annual membership fee to IEEE. His expectation is that the salary/cost
>> of IEEE staff should come from that membership fees. So when an IEEE
>> member goes to a conference s/he does not pay that again. If a
>> non-IEEE member registers, then it is ethical to charge him/her for
>> these overheads, which one would think is already being done
>> (registration fee for non-IEEE members are much more).
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