Larry,

You belonged to ARMA for 29 years?
I've only been alive 29 years.
Wow, you must be responsible all ARMA has become.
Well thank you very much.
I guess it has become all you could ever wish for.
Like any parent you have raised it and are now letting fly.

Chris Flynn

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Larry Medina <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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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