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Corporate/organisational membership

Tue, 2007-07-31 17:50 — Ken Coar

Should OSI be open to organisational memberships as well as individuals? (Or only organisation with no individual members?) What would the criteria for organisational membership be?

  1. Fee-based
  2. Nominated/voted on by OSI board or members
  3. Something else..?

What would membership get for an organisation?

  1. Banner/logo placement on the OSI site
  2. Franchise to vote (on what topics, ...)
  3. Something else..?
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Sat, 2007-08-11 22:18 — Bojan Sudarevic

Both

Without organizational members it would be hard to gain authority toward businesses. Without individuals it would be hard to have authority among community. So I say both.

Nominated by OSI board, voted by members, without fee. Open Source should be main or at least significant part of strategy of all member-organizations like it is for Sun, Novell, GNOME Foundation, KDE e.V., Mozilla, etc.

They could put banner/logo on their website. Instead of voting, they would have influence through some kind of advisory board. It would be win-win situation: members would give credibility to OSI, and OSI would give credibility to them.

Bojan Sudarevic