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In article <FAIGIN.92Aug6131004@soldan.aero.org>, faigin@aero.org (Daniel P. Faigin) writes:
|> > Am I missing something?  In what way are the local chapters _not_ self-
|> > supporting?  
|> 
|> ACM provides various services to local chapters: mailing labels, the Big
|> Event, the activities provided by the Local Activities Board, rosters, the
|> ACMCHAP mailing list, etc. for which the chapters do not pay HQ (as opposed to
|> the SIGs, which pay a hefty amount (in SIGSACs case, over $15K, and we're a
|> small SIG) for SIG services and to support SIG board activities).

How is the BIG event a service to the local chapters?  What specific
benefits accrued from it?  We've never attended, because our chapter
hasn't the resources to foot a travel bill, nor can any of our officers
afford to take off that much work or vacation time.  What benefits came
out of this thing?  How did they apply to local chapters?
Specifically?

What activities are provided by the LAB that benefit local chapters?

What are these "rosters?"  How do they help local chapters?

What is the ACMCHAP mailing list?  Is this the mailing list of chapters
for distribution of Network and press releases?  For my part, I have
never seen much point in Network.  There is nothing there that could
not just as easily be placed on a single page in CACM.  In the latest
Network, for instance, there was endless and redundant hyperbole about
the benefits of acm.org.  The actual information content of the whole
newsletter could easily be fit on a page or two.  Since Chapter
officers are required to be members of ACM, you could guarantee that
all Chapters have access to this critical information.

I suspect that if ACM were to start charging our chapter for all these
questionable services, we would rapidly disappear.

I reiterate -- the only _services_ our chapter has seen from ACM is a
set of mailing labels every couple of years, and the slight
coordination of _one_ Lectureship speaker in the last 6 years (there
were essentially no travel expenses involved in this instance).

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