Meetings
Our meetings are free and open to the public. Anyone can join and be placed on our membership list by registering on our website. Our meetings take place at CACI, our host organization.
Meeting Contacts
Jonathan D. Addelston (703-860-3070) generally hosts the meetings and is the Program Chair who arranges future meeting topics, speakers, locations, and schedules.
Florence Upson (703-243-6434) maintains all mailing lists and sends all announcements.
UpStart Systems, LLC is the sponsor for and manages our DC SPIN website at http://www.upstartsystems.com/dcspin.
Membership
There are no fees or dues of any kind, and anyone
can join. We seek members interested in supporting our Mission Statement from academia, government, industry, and consulting organizations. Many of our members are in software, systems, or Information Technology organizations with responsibilities for executive leadershiop, project management, process management (process improvement), quality assurance, configuration management, measurement programs, and engineering activities. Please let your colleagues know about our activities.
Your email address is particularly useful because we send meeting announcements and most other correspondence via email. If your email address is recorded incorrectly, you will not get announcements because we will not send US Mail. Please provide this information accurately. Please send account updates to Florence Upson or register on this website. Thanks.
Program
DC SPIN has no formal constitution, no by-laws, nor officers. We operate without those formal structures. We have an informal group of process improvement activists who volunteer for the DC SPIN using teamwork and consensus building. The programs offer SPIN-related issues such as new initiatives, special events, SPIN sponsored training, and SPIN coordinated conference participation. Jonathan D. Addelston is the Program Chair for the DC SPIN programs and would enjoy hearing from potential presenters and the membership regarding interested topics. Any SPIN member may attend meetings, participate, and volunteer.
Policy regarding the use of media and meetings
The SPIN mailing list (e-mail and regular mail) is never sold, lent, or released in any way for any purpose. Organizations or individuals wishing to have announcements put into our written notices should submit them in e-mail to Rita Hadden, the newsletter Editor, or call her at 202-244-3268. We put in announcements, space permitting, for local events that are free and of interest to our members (e.g., SSQ and the SSIG of ASQ). We put in announcements of other local events if there is a substantial discount for our SPIN members. We do not send out special broadcasts on behalf of vendors. We also do not advertise positions available or wanted, but people wishing to announce such positions can place printed notices on the table at the entrance of any SPIN meeting. We suggest 60 copies.
Sponsorship
CACI is the sponsor for our monthly DC SPIN meetings. Gary Coleman at CACI is the DC SPIN host.
UpStart Systems, LLC sponsors our DC SPIN web site. Many presentations that speakers have made at our meetings are available through our Past Meetings page.