Re: Stress Analysis Spreadsheet Software - Opinions

From: <Geoff>
Date: Sat Feb 18 2006 - 01:17:00 EST

Christopher,

   ASME have had a great push in SE Asia to get memebership. They now profess to be an international learned society. When they turned up in Sydney 12 people attended their presentation. Most said "what are you doing here" apart from trying to lift your flagging membership. Apparently in North America the membership is ageing and as members fall off the perch no one else is joining. The ultimate is that they will relocate to Beijing, reduce fees to a few dollars but that wont matter as half a billion members will join.

   Geoff

Christopher Wright <chrisw@skypoint.com> wrote:

On Feb 17, 2006, at 10:50 PM, Paul Bowers wrote:

> Does ASME function as a profit-oriented business or as a
> member-supported organization?

My own opinion is that it's currently advertising itself as both, but it's really working like a fast train to irrelevance. Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=tBolVeOxeC38tJe3IK4CkGQlAKOUBWn0iVgUdA8pKx1biuZ6Yi-VrA216At_7mr8WgEy4J6pPPEdBLz-0cs">chrisw@skypoint.com</a> | this distance" (last words of Gen.

.......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania

1864)
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[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Received on Sat Feb 18 01:17:00 2006