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| 2 | +layout: page |
| 3 | +title: Organizational Membership - Coming Soon! |
| 4 | +permalink: /org-membership/ |
| 5 | +subtitle: Why should my organization become a member of US-RSE? |
| 6 | +menubar: get-involved |
| 7 | +menubar_toc: true |
| 8 | +--- |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +The US Research Software Engineer Association (US-RSE)[^1] is the leading |
| 11 | +professional community of research software engineering practitioners in the |
| 12 | +United States. |
| 13 | +US-RSE's four-pronged mission aims to foster community, promote RSEs’ impact on |
| 14 | +research, provide useful resources, and encourage and improve diversity |
| 15 | +throughout the profession. US-RSE envisions a future where it plays an essential |
| 16 | +role in promoting RSEs to be universally respected for advancing science, |
| 17 | +technology, and society through the transformative power of research software |
| 18 | +engineering. |
| 19 | +The number of individual members of US-RSE has grown from about 20 in 2018 to |
| 20 | +over 2700 in 2024. |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +{% include member-graph.html %} |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +## Pilot Phase: Become an Organizational Founding Member |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +On October 1, 2024, US-RSE will start the pilot phase of an organizational |
| 28 | +membership program, which will run through November 30, 2025. |
| 29 | +The pilot phase for organizational founding members will give organizations the |
| 30 | +opportunity to be recognized in perpetuity as founding members of US-RSE. |
| 31 | +Every organization joining on or before November 30, 2025 will be considered an |
| 32 | +organizational founding member. |
| 33 | +The annual membership fees (see Table 3) will remain the same for founding |
| 34 | +members until December 31, 2028. |
| 35 | +Organizations joining on or after December 1, 2025 are ineligible to become an |
| 36 | +organizational founding member. |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +### Why support US-RSE? |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | +US-RSE offers a variety of services to its individual and organizational members. |
| 42 | +Examples include: |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | +- Our annual conference |
| 45 | + - The [2023 inaugural conference](https://us-rse.org/usrse23/) was a |
| 46 | + resounding success, selling out with 250 attendees. |
| 47 | + - For [2024](https://us-rse.org/usrse24/) we aim for 300 participants. |
| 48 | +- [Monthly community calls](/events/#community-call) |
| 49 | +- [A monthly newsletter](/newsletters/) |
| 50 | +- 15 [working groups](/working-groups/) and [affinity groups](/about/affinity-groups/) |
| 51 | +- Multiple virtual seminars series. Examples include |
| 52 | + - The [DEI speaker series](/wg/dei/) |
| 53 | + - The [Education and Training speaker series](/wg/education_training/) |
| 54 | +- A heavily visited and successful [job board](/jobs/) |
| 55 | +- Creation of resources such as the |
| 56 | + - [Career Guidebook](https://zenodo.org/records/8329337) in collaboration with |
| 57 | + the Academic Data Science Alliance (over 100 pages) |
| 58 | + - [Career Guide Brochure](https://zenodo.org/records/10073233) for RSEs in |
| 59 | + collaboration with IEEE Computer Society (25 pages) |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | + |
| 62 | +By joining US-RSE as an organizational member, you will ensure the continuation |
| 63 | +and expansion of these offerings. |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | + |
| 66 | +### Organizational Membership Duration |
| 67 | + |
| 68 | +Organizational membership is defined per calendar year from January 1 to |
| 69 | +December 31. |
| 70 | +Organizations can join throughout the year with membership fees being reduced |
| 71 | +between August 1 and November 30 to 50% for the remainder of the year and |
| 72 | +reduced benefits as described below. |
| 73 | +Members joining on or after December 1 will be members the following year from |
| 74 | +January 1 with all benefits. |
| 75 | + |
| 76 | + |
| 77 | +### Benefits for Organizational Founding Members |
| 78 | + |
| 79 | +Organizational Founding Members will be recognized with their logo on the US-RSE |
| 80 | +website, on conference material, and in annual reports. |
| 81 | +Organizational members benefit from opportunities to help shape US-RSE’s |
| 82 | +activities and strategic initiatives via quarterly meetings with the US-RSE |
| 83 | +Leadership including the Executive Director (ED), Community Manager (CM) and a |
| 84 | +subset of the elected Steering Committee (SC). |
| 85 | + |
| 86 | +US-RSE’s organizational membership model has three tiers with different |
| 87 | +membership fees (see Table 3). |
| 88 | +As the second most visited page (after the homepage) on the website, the job |
| 89 | +board is highly successful, and Standard and Premier membership include |
| 90 | +highlighted job postings. |
| 91 | +Our annual conference is the flagship event for RSEs and allies in the United |
| 92 | +States, and Standard and Premier membership includes free registrations at the |
| 93 | +event (see Table 1 for the summary of benefits). |
| 94 | + |
| 95 | +Organizations joining before August 1 in coming years receive all benefits for |
| 96 | +that year. |
| 97 | +For Standard and Premier members this includes benefits for the annual |
| 98 | +conference in the current calendar year. |
| 99 | +Organizations joining on or after August 1 but before December 1 pay half of the |
| 100 | +membership fee for the calendar year, but for Standard and Premier level will |
| 101 | +not receive conference-related benefits and will only receive half as many |
| 102 | +highlighted posts on the job board. |
| 103 | +They will have all other benefits including the remaining quarterly meetings |
| 104 | +with the US-RSE leadership group (see Table 2 for the summary of benefits). |
| 105 | +Organizations joining on or after December 1 receive the membership for the |
| 106 | +following year. |
| 107 | + |
| 108 | + |
| 109 | +### Annual General Meeting and Annual Report |
| 110 | + |
| 111 | +US-RSE holds a virtual Annual General Meeting open to all individual and |
| 112 | +organizational members in December of each year. |
| 113 | +Organizational members will be acknowledged in the meeting. |
| 114 | +Organizational members will additionally receive an annual end-of-the-year |
| 115 | +report, which includes a directory of all organizational members. |
| 116 | + |
| 117 | + |
| 118 | +### US-RSE Organizational Membership is inclusive |
| 119 | + |
| 120 | +US-RSE prioritizes diversity, equity, and inclusion through initiatives that |
| 121 | +cultivate a representative and inclusive RSE community. |
| 122 | +It aims at creating and maintaining a diverse workforce. |
| 123 | +The membership model is designed to give all interested organizations the |
| 124 | +possibility to become an organizational founding member if joining by |
| 125 | +December 1, 2025. |
| 126 | +Besides the benefits listed in Table 1 and Table 2, US-RSE provides the |
| 127 | +following opportunities: |
| 128 | +- Organizations can gift annual memberships to other organizations.[^2] |
| 129 | +- A 5-year membership can be purchased for the price of a 4-year membership. |
| 130 | + |
| 131 | + |
| 132 | +## How to join? |
| 133 | + |
| 134 | +If you would like to join, please contact our Executive Director, |
| 135 | + |
| 136 | + |
| 137 | +| | Basic | Standard | Premier | |
| 138 | +| :---- | :---- | :---- | :---- | |
| 139 | +| Your organization’s logo listed on the US-RSE website, end-of-the-year report and annual conference website | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 140 | +| Members have exclusive access to use a specific branded US-RSE logo for organizational members[^3] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 141 | +| Quarterly members-only meetings with Executive Director and other representatives of the US-RSE leadership team | 1 person | 1 person | 2 persons | |
| 142 | +| Free attendees at annual US-RSE conference | \- | 1 person | 2 persons | |
| 143 | +| Highlighted positions in job board | \- | 2 per year | 4 per year | |
| 144 | +| A spotlight of an organizational member or a representative of an organizational member posted to the website linked via the newsletter | \- | \- | 1 per year | |
| 145 | +| Members can request promotional US-RSE stickers and brochures once per year[^4] | 20 brochures/50 special member stickers | 100 brochures/200 special member stickers | 100 brochures/200 special member stickers | |
| 146 | +| Discount of 20% for sponsorship at conference | \- | \- | ✓ | |
| 147 | + |
| 148 | +Table 1: The benefits of the three tiers of the US-RSE organizational membership |
| 149 | +model **for organizations joining between December 1 (year before) and July 31**. |
| 150 | +If an organization joins on or after December 1, the official membership starts |
| 151 | +on January 1 and lasts until December 31 of the following year. |
| 152 | +{: style="font-size: 0.7em; font-style: italic" } |
| 153 | + |
| 154 | + |
| 155 | +| | Basic | Standard | Premier | |
| 156 | +| :---- | :---- | :---- | :---- | |
| 157 | +| Your logo listed on the US-RSE website, end-of-the-year report and annual conference website | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 158 | +| Quarterly members-only meetings with Executive Director and other representatives of the US-RSE Leadership | 1 person | 1 person | 2 persons | |
| 159 | +| Highlighted positions in job board | \- | 1 highlighted per year | 2 highlighted per year | |
| 160 | +| A spotlight of an organizational member or a representative of an organizational member posted to the website linked via the newsletter | \- | \- | 1 per year | |
| 161 | +| Members can request promotional US-RSE stickers and brochures once per year[^4] | 20 brochures/50 special member stickers | 100 brochures/200 special member stickers | 100 brochures/200 special member stickers | |
| 162 | + |
| 163 | +Table 2: The benefits of the three tiers of the US-RSE organizational membership |
| 164 | +model **for organizations joining between August 1 and November 30**. |
| 165 | +{: style="font-size: 0.7em; font-style: italic" } |
| 166 | + |
| 167 | + |
| 168 | +| | Basic | Standard | Premier | |
| 169 | +| :---- | :---- | :---- | :---- | |
| 170 | +| Academic (R1 and R2), national labs, non-profits, small companies (1-20 employees), foundations | $1000 per year | $2000 per year | $4000 per year | |
| 171 | +| Academic (Not R1 or R2) | $500 per year | $1000 per year | $2000 per year | |
| 172 | +| MSIs, HBCUs | $500 per year | $1000 per year | $2000 per year | |
| 173 | +| Industry | Contact Executive Director[^5] | $5000 per year | $10000 per year | |
| 174 | + |
| 175 | +Table 3: Membership fees |
| 176 | +{: style="font-size: 0.7em; font-style: italic" } |
| 177 | + |
| 178 | + |
| 179 | +[^1]: US-RSE is a fiscally sponsored project by Community Initiatives. https://communityinitiatives.org/ |
| 180 | +[^2]: Please contact the Executive Director for initiating the process |
| 181 | +[^3]: For example, “Founding Organizational Member 2024” |
| 182 | +[^4]: Please contact the Community Manager for US-RSE stickers and promotional material |
| 183 | +[^5]: The ED will talk with the company and summarize the reasons for the SC why |
| 184 | + the company aims for basic membership. The SC will vote on it and a simple |
| 185 | + majority is sufficient to allow the company to join, with the price to be |
| 186 | + negotiated between the company and Executive Director. |
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