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Bruce Byfield (bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com) wrote:
> The only requirement for STC membership is a certain amount
> of cash. As a result, membership indicates nothing about a
> person's writing ability one way or the other.
>
> Nor does active involvement. From my days in English
> Departments, I know that the ability to play politics is
> very different from the ability to write or manage.
Politics?!
At the local level, we have enough trouble finding even one
candidate for each office. I'm talking about the Silicon
Valley Chapter, numbering over 1300 members.
--Guy K. Haas gkhaas -at- usa -dot- net or ghaas -at- selectica -dot- com
Software Exegete in Silicon Valley
A programmer-turned-technical-writer documenting 6 APIs across
C, VB, and Java who was a TW for some 9 years before joining STC.
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