[Vacets] Fw: Questions for Candidates

[Hung Nguyen]

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From: LTN 
To: 'Hung Nguyen' 
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 1:36 PM
Subject: Questions for Candidates


Hello Candidates,

There are a few questions that have been raised several times by various members of VACETS. They have been discussed but no conclusion has been reached. As candidates for the VACETS board, please give us your opinion, and plan for these issues:

1) Membership fee: Should we institute a membership fee for VACETS? why or why not?
2) How to encourage others to participate in VACETS activities? Most members of VACETS (may be except student members) are accomplished professional with busy work and family life's, what can VACETS do to attract and keep them involved and interested? And how do we start?
3) VACETS is mostly an Internet organization, and for that to work, we need a better presence on the Internet. In the past we have our website and the many forums (fora ?). Most of the time the website is out of date (and the look is kind of boring) because we don't have dedicate resource to maintain and support it. Most of the forums are also dormant because of lack of interest or lack of resource to keep it interesting. How would you propose we correct this?
4) No funding source: without a membership fee or any other source of funding we have been struggling to organize any activity (e.g. VTIC & Technical Journal) and have been depending on volunteers and hit/miss corporate sponsorships. What are your plan for future activities and how do we pay for them?
5) Marketing: Most of Vietnamese professionals do not know VACETS. We have been recruiting them mostly by words of mouth. It is a chicken and egg problem: without a good membership we will not be known but if we are not known then it's difficult to attract the membership. How do you propose we break this cycle?

Thank you for your responses.

Luc Nguyen