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Re: [Linux-aus] Linux Australia member services



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@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.


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