1. Outstanding Life Member Affinity Group Award
Stacey Waters
LMC Meeting
17 October 2012
****CONFIDENTIAL****

2. History
September 2008 – ad hoc committee appointed to design a program recognizing outstanding performance of Life Member Groups.
Determined that the recognition should be based upon:
the numbers of meetings held by the LM Group,
the average attendance at meetings and the number of contributors to the LMF.
number of contributors to the LMF.
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3. Rankings
Rankings will be calculated based on the previous year’s data.
Each Life Member Group will be assigned a score based on the following formula
S = 5 Meet Att Con
Where
Meet = No. of LMG meetings per year
Att = Ave meeting attendance / No of LMG members
Con = No of contributors to LMF / No of LMG members
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4. Goal
A successful LMG recognition program will result in improvements, including:  
Satisfaction of IEEE life members with their IEEE involvement
Recognition of the contributions of life members to IEEE activities
Number of Life Member Groups
Membership in Life Member Groups
Participation of life members in IEEE activities
Giving to the Life Members Fund
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5. Currently Award given out for four years (2009-2013)
Historically given to the top 15 affinity groups
Same affinity groups have been recognized each year
46% of awarded sections have won 3 to 5 times out 5 years award given
Questions:
Is the award still serving it’s original goals if the same affinity groups are being recognized?
Should the formula be altered?
Should number of awardees per year be changed?
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6. Awards Presented
Following pages includes 2013 proposed LMAG’s to be recognized
Section Officers have not yet been notified of 2013 results
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7. Award Presented 2009 2010 2011 2012 Proposed 2013 Total Buenaventura 5
Colombia
Kingston
New York
Boston 4
Israel
Peru
Bombay 3
Cedar Rapids
Chile
Panama
South Brazil
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8. Award Presented 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Total Peterborough  3
Proposed
2013
Total
Peterborough  3
Croatia 2
Los Alamos/No.New Mexico
New Orleans
New South Wales
UK Rep of Ireland
Central Texas-San Antonio
Oklahoma City
South Australia
Wichita
Australia 1
Dallas/Fort Worth
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9. Award Presented 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Total Northwest Florida  1
Proposed
2013
Total
Northwest Florida  1
Italy
Puerto Rico & the Caribbean
South Eastern Michigan
Syracuse
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10. October 2012 LMC Meeting -
A discussion was held regarding the current criteria and algorithm that is used to recognize outstanding Life Member Affinity Groups.
It seems that since the inception of this recognition (4 years), about 50% of the recipients receive the award annually. The LMC agreed that they would like to evaluate the algorithm further and determine next best steps.
Action Item: To review the current algorithm and to provide a recommendation to the Life Member Committee via as the best way to proceed.
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11. Items to be considered
Number of attendees at meetings is part of formula
Should number of attendees be just members or total attendees?
Including total number of attendees for sections with low number of life members skews the rating
Including total number of attendees can skew numbers when conference events, etc are reported with 1,000+attendees
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