Dear Prof. Kossak: Many thanks for your kind reply. I am glad to learn that the ASL has changed policy since 2010 and re-extended the Outreach Membership Program to include Brazil, with the help of a few generous donations. I am hereby forwarding this information to the Brazilian discussion list on Logic, which I have founded 8 years ago. Please feel free to let me know whenever you have any further news which might be of interest to this community.
Sincerely yours, Joao Marcos On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Roman Kossak <roman.kos...@bcc.cuny.edu> wrote: > Dear Professor Marcos, > > I understand. I am not sure what the situation was in 2010, but the ASL rules > say clearly that "This program applies to individuals and institutions > residing in countries whose economies are classified as 'upper middle income' > or below on the World Bank's annual list for four of the preceding five > years." The last clause should guarantee reasonable stability in membership > fee rates. > > ASL has recently moved its publications to Cambridge University Press, and > CUP will handle the membership renewal process. It will be done > electronically, and timely email reminders will be sent. > > Here is additional information from the ASL website about the outreach > program I have asked Andrey Bovykin to let his colleagues know about: > > "In March of 2011 four ASL members jointly donated $1000 to establish an > Outreach Membership Fund. The purpose of the fund is to cover the initial > membership fee for new and lapsed members from developing economies for the > first two years of membership. All new or lapsed members from any of the > countries listed at the World Bank list of developing economies can apply > (for the current list see http://www.aslonline.org/worldbankeconomies.html). > > Applications should be emailed to the ASL Membership Committee at > asl-members...@googlegroups.com. Applicants should include their full mailing > address and their professional affiliation. Applicants residing in countries > not considered developing economies are not eligible. > > Donations to the fund can be made directly to the ASL Business office or when > an individual ASL member renews her/his membership." > > With best wishes, > > Roman Kossak > > ________________________________________ > From: Joao Marcos [botoc...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 1:33 PM > To: Roman Kossak > Cc: Lista acadêmica brasileira dos profissionais e estudantes da área de > LOGICA; Andrey Bovykin > Subject: Re: [Logica-l] ASL outreach program > > Dear Prof. Kossak: > (with CC to the 427 members of the Brazilian discussion list on Logic, > including many potential members of the ASL) > > In reaction to your message to Andrey Bovykin, I forward to you below > the correspondence I had with Mrs Carol Hill in 2010. I cannot speak > in the name of other colleagues from Brazil, of course, but in my case > the content of those messages explain why I stopped subscribing to the > ASL in 2010, after several years as a member. I have however still > participated since then (as a co-author) to two further editions of > the Logic Colloquium (in Manchester and Évora). > > Many thanks again for your attention and your care, > Joao Marcos > http://sequiturquodlibet.googlepages.com/ > http://scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=fVoG0bYAAAAJ&hl=pt-BR > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Carol A. Hill <c...@ams.org> > Date: Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:05 PM > Subject: RE: Please confirm membership renewal > To: Joao Marcos <botoc...@gmail.com> > > Dear Joao Marcos, > > Our records indicate that you have not paid your 2010 ASL membership > dues of $82.00 yet. > > If you would like to pay your dues through the web, please go to our > web site https://www.ams.org/aslrenewal. Your membership number is > 500106. > > If you have any questions, please contact me. > > Sincerely, > > Ms Carol Hill > Group Coordinator, Commercial Accounts > Member & Customer Services Department > Association for Symbolic Logic > c/o American Mathematical Society > 201 Charles Street > Providence, RI 02904-2294 > 401-455-4125 or 1-800-321-4267 > Fax: 401-455-4046 > Email: c...@ams.org > ASL Email: asl-serv...@ams.org > Website: www.aslonline.org > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Joao Marcos <botoc...@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:24 PM > Subject: Re: Please confirm membership renewal > To: c...@ams.org > > Dear Mrs Hill: > > Many thanx for checking the records, and for sending me such expedite > reply. Being out of my office in Brazil for so long, this was what I > feared --- I wish thus AMS would contact me about the membership > preferrably by email, if at all possible, so that I would not allow it > to happen again! > > Does the membership correspond to the period Jan-Dec? I should > regularize my situation through your website, as you indicated, and I > suppose that the corresponding journals would be sent to me after > that, right? > > Tell me: there used to be a reduced fee for members from developing > countries. Apparently this no longer exists for researchers working > in Brazil? > > Joao Marcos > Cust. ID: 500106 > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Joao Marcos <botoc...@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:59 PM > Subject: Re: Please confirm membership renewal > To: c...@ams.org > > Dear Carol Hill: > > Thanks again for the response. > >> Membership does run from Jan-Dec and we will start the billing process >> for the 2011 membership in November 2010. Brazil is no longer considered >> a developing country starting with the 2010 membership year. You could >> pay the regular dues of $82.00 for up to 5 years at a time. That would >> make it easier for you instead of paying each year and you would save >> money when and if ASL does raise the cost of dues within that 5 year period. > > Well, the country is certainly still in the "developing" category --- > it could not have changed _that much_ since I came to Austria for my > post-doc at the end of last year. I just had a look at your website, > and the World Bank's website, to see if I could figure that out, and > now I understand that _you_ have in fact instituted a more precise > classification, and in that classification Brazil fits among the > "upper-middle-income economies" (as it always did), instead of among > the "lower-middle-income economies"... Oh well, that certainly *does* > make a difference for my personal finances, so I guess I will now > consider waiting for November for my renewal, and skip 2010 > altogether... > > All the best, and thank you again for all your care. > Joao Marcos > > > ****************************************************************************** > ****************************************************************************** > >> - Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Kossak, Roman >> Date: 8 February 2014 15:32 >> Subject: ASL outreach program >> To: Andrey Bovykin >> >> >> Hi Andrey, >> >> I am in charge of the ASL outreach program. See >> >> http://www.aslonline.org/membership_outreach.html >> >> Last year we had a decent number of applications, >> mostly from India and Iran, but there was only one >> from Latin America, and in particular, none from Brasil. >> I wonder why. Can you spread the word among your >> Brasilian friends? >> >> Best, >> >> Roman > > ****************************************************************************** > ****************************************************************************** -- http://sequiturquodlibet.googlepages.com/ _______________________________________________ Logica-l mailing list Logica-l@dimap.ufrn.br http://www.dimap.ufrn.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/logica-l
