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- From: pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham)
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- Subject: The cost of a SAGE board seat.
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- Date: 24 Aug 92 01:01:46 GMT
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- scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) writes:
- |tower@raisin-nut.ai.mit.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) writes:
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- |>Hmm, USENIX pays for members of the USENIX board to come to USENIX
- |>board meetings.
- |>It would seem fair for SAGE Board Members to also have their
- |>out-of-pocket expenses picked up. Perhaps phased in over a few years?
- |
- |USENIX has thousands of paying members at $165 per, SAGE has hundreds
- |at $25 per. Seven board members times four meetings per year would
- |break the SAGE bank instantly.
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- to me this immediately suggests annual as opposed to quarterly meetings.
- one would not like to see good talent held back because of the vagaries
- of budgets or see only those bankrolled by corporations able to serve.
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