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

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> wrote:
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> habib@ccny.cuny.edu wrote:
>> Joe..
>> Quickly, the points are the following:
>> 1) Conferences should not pay money to IEEE support staff, this will
>> cut down the expenses and save money in registration fees.
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> Hi, Ibrahim,
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> I think my point is not clear. You do not want Globecom to pay for
> journals, but you want the IEEE registrations to pay for IEEE staff to
> support conferences. I don't think that's a consistent position.
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> Either all components are self-supporting, or they are not.
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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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