[linux-audio-user] Linux and Standards [moving OT]

[Edward Barrow]

On Tuesday 2 November 2004 16:10, Mark Knecht wrote:

> IEEE membership is about $100 IIRC. Meetings take place where the
> group votes to have them. Voting rights in the group are based on
> attendance. If you have attended 2 of the last 3 meetings (including
> the one you are sitting in at the time) then you are allowed to vote.
> Therefore meetings could go back and forth between the west coast and
> New York, but if I attended only the west coast meetings I'd still be
> able to vote.

But there are other places in the world... If you were based in Southampton, 
London, Bangalore, Tokyo,  Ouagadougo  or even the midwest of the USA your 
cost of participation would quickly become prohibitive under this model....

-- 
Edward Barrow