re acm siggraph and acm in general in article apr koko csustan edu rsc altair csustan edu steve cunningham writes and no siggraph has not skipped town we re preparing the best siggraph conference yet speaking of siggraph i just went through the ordeal of my annual registration for siggraph and re upping of membership in the acm last night and was i ever grossed out the new prices for membership are almost highway robbery for example siggraph basic fee went from last year to this year for the same thing a increase those facile enough to arrange a trip to the annual conference could reduce this to by selecting siggraph lite which means siggraph is charging an additional or so for the proceedings and the art show catalog essentially toplas went up in cost way outstripping the current inflation rate basic sigchi fees remainded the same but whereas before sigchi membership included uist and human factors conferences proceedings these are now an extra cost option bundling that back into the basic rate equivalent services have gone up in cost sigois membership cost has up but they ve also split out the computer supported cooperative work conference proceedings that used to be included with membership adding that cost back in means this sig also has doubled its membership fee what really galls me is that the acm sent out brochures a couple months ago touting their new approach to providing member services and tried to make it sound like they were offering new services but with the exception of a couple like siggraph all the plus services appear to be just splitting the costs into smaller piles so that they don t look so big but their recommended changes to my membership would have me paying more than last year for a increase in services measured by cost not by value and curiously a inflation rate on the publications i got last year is anyone out there as galled by this extortion as i am robert reed home animation ltd robert slipknot rain com first court west linn or shooting yourself in the foot in various languages and systems motif you spend days writing a uil description of your foot the trajectory the bullet and the intricate scrollwork on the ivory handles of the gun when you finally get around to pulling the trigger the gun jams
