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

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.

Henning

>
> 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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