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I do think that a significant reason why the existing professional societies aren't as effective as they could be is because we do not have licensure outside of

I do think that a significant reason why the existing professional societies aren't as effective as they could be is because we do not have licensure outside of specific technologies (e.g. Java, Oracle, Kubernetes, etc.). I am 100% sure that if I poll the software engineers that I work with on a daily basis that only a handful of them would be aware of the IET. A handful _may_ remember the ACM from their college days.

OJFord 4y ago
I'd guess you're in the US? I think it has a presence there, but more predominantly across the Commonwealth. I keep considering joining the ACM - actually probably less likely now I saw recently they free-ised the 'Digital Library' - but in my awareness/experience at least I think it's the opposite, not nearly as widely known/joined/read here as in the US. And not chartered in the UK, i.e. you couldn't be a CEng or whatever via the ACM. (I'm not via The IET either, but could be in theory. That's part of the problem, it's difficult when there's a lack of resources or examples for our discipline - vs. plenty for others. I also sort of think if I managed it it would just be for the letters, it wouldn't actually be helpful or signify anything relevant. It would be nice if there were something to work towards and achieve in that regard that did actually mean something, and motivated working on useful things.)