[Linux-aus] Linux Australia member services

[James Polley]

Try again, this time to the list

That has to be the most throughly self-defeating email I've ever seen.

On 9/29/06, Brenda Aynsley <bpa at iss.net.au> wrote:
>
> Donna Benjamin wrote:
>
> > LA.  However the down side is the low regard may ppl have for
> > certification, and that it creates a barrier to entry. Jumping hoops is
> > something you have to do to join ACS - I don't think we want that here.
> >
> >
> may I correct this statement please.
>
> You do not *have* to jump hoops to join ACS.  Students can join by
> simply being a student at uni or tafe in ICT/CS courses.


I'm not a student at uni or tafe, although I've been both in the past. I
don't have time to go back to either, and even if I did  I have nothing I
want to do there.

That's a hoop. I haven't looked at the ACS in detail since before I went to
uni, but my recollection is that as a student member, one is essentially
paying for the right to be able to say that you're a member - you have no
voting rights and no influence on the organisation as a whole.

Provisional associate membership happens on application when you have
> completed an appropriate degree or cert IV at tafe.  Then with a couple
> of years experience on the job you regrade to associate member on
> application.


- Completed an appropriate degree
- Or a Cert IV at Tafe

Cool, a choice of hoops to jump through this time.

- Then with a couple of years experience...

another hoop.

Provisional member comes to people who have finished an appropriate
> course at uni.


another hoop.

Membership is available to graduates who have completed a Professional
> Level Course and have at least 4 years' Relevant Professional Experience;


Two more hoops.

OR
> to someone who can satisfy the Society that he or she has acquired the
> Core Body of Knowledge through demonstrated equivalence and has at least
> 4 years relevant professional experience
>
>
> *now its only the last of these that provides any hoops to jump through.*


Actually, no. They all provide some hoops to jump through.


-- 
There is nothing more worthy of contempt than a man who quotes himself -
Zhasper, 2004
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