Computing at School is an open group. We are eager to collaborate with anyone (individuals or organisations) who care about CAS's objectives, and we encourage you to join the CAS working group?

What does 'joining' mean? In joining, members say whether they envisage themselves as a 'Working Member' or a 'Supporting Member'.

Working members:

1. Are able to commit some of their personal time to the CAS endeavour.
2. Commit to responding in a timely fashion to working group decisions or discussions. We will have to ensure that the bandwidth involved here is manageable.
3. Contribute actively to at least one ongoing project in the CAS area. This may be an existing activity in a partner like cs4fn or CSInside; or it may be one of the CAS sub-groups (aka task forces) working on a specific task.
4. Make it a priority to come to CAS Working Group meetings, which currently happen around twice a year.
5. Are visibly associated with CAS: the list of members appears on the CAS web site.

Supporting members:

1. Are every bit as concerned about computing at school as working group members, but because of their other commitments cannot contribute in an active way.
2. Want to be kept informed about what CAS is up to.
3. Are delighted to help with specific matters, especially in areas of particular expertise.

Communication

All members (whether working members or supporters) are invited to join an online Google group. Any member can post to the group, and only members can read it, so it is a good place for work in progress. All members post a short biography on this (private) web site, describing their interest in CAS, and saying what they can offer to the group. The Google group is used for broadcast announcements of events or material of mutual interest, and members can also upload material to the site for others to see. Otherwise we communicate mainly through direct email to specific sub-groups.

How to join Send an email to Simon Peyton Jones (simonpj@microsoft.com).