Derek J. Balling writes: > Lastly, I'm going to throw something out there that a lot of people > aren't going to want to hear, and frankly which I don't even want to > really say, but which needs saying at this point: > > LOPSA IS A FAILURE > > I say this as someone who signed up as a paid member on Day One, as a > founding sponsor, and a former board member. So I am not someone who > wants to be "a LOPSA naysayer", I am simply being pragmatic at this point. > > This fall will mark the 10 year birthday of LOPSA, and it has > accomplished - literally - nothing that couldn't have been > accomplished under the USENIX/SAGE banner of yore. Except that it's > done so with a lot more overhead, a lot more grumbling, years of > inter-organizational bad-blood, and a lot of person-hours spent by > volunteers that resulted in precious little.
While I can understand a lot of the frustration here, I will say that LOPSA will be a failure only if we (as in the membership as a whole) choose to make it a failure. But I can also see how people feel that LOPSA has not succeeded to the extent they have wanted it to succeed. I think the proposal for a free level of membership is intended to make LOPSA more inclusive (as well as acknowledging that the recent change to offering free student membership has brought in a lot more student members). If we really want LOPSA to be representative of the profession, we need to get more people from the profession involved somehow. But that also has to be balanced against the ongoing financial health of the organization, which is why we're very interested in how members feel about this proposal and what our members want from the organization, especially to make paid memberships attractive. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
