rab@cdcvax.UUCP (Roger Bielefeld) (12/02/83)
I've been putting off this submission for a long time. The article from Mark Bartelt finally gave me the kick I needed to get it out. Is anybody else out there as disgusted as I am with the job that the new "professional" office for the USENIX Association is doing? It seems to me that things went much more smoothly in the "good old days" when volunteer effort got everything done. Even when the whole association was being run from Secretary Lew Law's home (just prior to the switch to the "pros") things were better. I'm certainly not advocating that the officers of the association take on all the necessary work once again, but I certainly expect that a "professional", paid office staff could do the job at least as well as the volunteers did. By the way, does anybody know how much the USENIX Association pays this staff (per month, per year, or whatever) to keep things going? How many full-time equivalents make up the staff? If this information isn't public, it should be. Roger Bielefeld decvax!cwruecmp!cdcvax!rab
thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas) (12/02/83)
Hear! Hear! See my previous message for actions YOU can take to help change the currently lousy situation. When the SLC conference was pushed back by 6 months at the San Diego conference last winter, a large number of people said "well, s***w them, we'll just have our own 'conference' in SLC in January". Unfortunately, those of us who live here have to be in DC, because we have to plan for June. =Spencer P.S. The skiing is lousy in June. But, the mountain climbing, hiking, and river running is great!