[Infowarrior] - Cerf: Why many programmers don’t bother joining the ACM

[Richard Forno]

Why many programmers don’t bother joining the ACM

In response to a query from Vint Cerf, professional developers explain why they don’t feel a membership in the  Association for Computing Machinery is worth the cost

By Phil Johnson 

July 30, 2014, 6:00 AM —

Earlier this month Vint Cerf, co-creator of the TCP/IP protocol and current Google vice president, openly asked professional programmers for feedback regarding the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a professional organization that Cerf recently served as president. Specifically, Cerf wondered in both the Communications of the ACM and the ACM Queue, why the membership in the ACM has not grown commensurately with the increase in professional, non-academic programmers? What is it, he asked, that may be preventing programmers from joining and what could the ACM do to make itself more relevant to them going forward? 

While Cerf invited feedback to his Gmail account, many programmers openly shared their thoughts in comments on ACM Queue and in various online discussions. While some feedback about the ACM was positive, much of it indicated that developers have some strong negative feelings about the way the ACM operates. Before reviewing their feedback, though, let’s take a quick look at what the ACM is and what it offers to programmers.

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http://www.itworld.com/cloud-computing/429166/why-many-programmers-don-t-bother-joining-acm

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