Maureen-

You don't have to be a member of NFPA to serve on a Technical Committee...
and there isn't a committee meeting every year, in fact, the committee only
meets in person the year of a revision cycle.

I was only a member for two years, and these were gratis membership
provided by NFPA after I had been on the Committee for 10 years as a "Thank
You" gift.  I've attended a total of 4 meetings in person in the 12+ years
I've served on the committee- and I probably could have avoided one of
those.

You're quite fortunate to have an employer willing to pay for the items
they do- In the 29 years I belonged to ARMA, my employers paid for
memberships for 4 of those years, same with AIIM, and they paid for
Conference registrations and costs about half of the 10 times I attended.
Over the past 5 years, I've had to take vacation or unpaid time to attend,
and any memberships, attendance or registration have been all on my own
dime... and given the quality of the product, I doubt I'll be going much in
the future.

Larry
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On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Maureen Cusack <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Well I now believe to be true Larry's theory about NFPA subtly excluding
> records managers from NFPA 232 standards development to preserve domination
> by storage vendors whose interest lies in maintaining vague and lax
> standards. Two (2) years after submitting my application to join the NFPA
> 232 technical committee, I received, in the mail, my invitation to join.
> The price is hundreds of dollars per year, and requires attendance
> in-person at one committee meeting per year, minimum, and the meeting
> is invariably on the other side of the country. I have a limited budget at
> work for memberships and travel and my employer already pays my annual
> memberships to ARMA (2 memberships, national and local) and ICRM, as well
> as per-event fees and travel costs to attend local and national symposia
> and conferences like MER.
>
>
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> Maureen Cusack
> San Francisco, CA
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