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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Out of interest has there been an equivalent survey to ask companies as to whether they would want corporate membership and also why? <br><br>Assuming they are given only one vote wouldn't they just be better of joining as individual members? Perhaps they already do and OSMF is already under their influence. I guess by having corporate membership we would potentially bring this out into the open. There only other benefit is likely to be the financial one already mentioned.<br><br>Dudley<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 13:14:30 +0200<br>> From: simon@osmfoundation.org<br>> To: osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org<br>> Subject: Re: [Osmf-talk] OSMF Articles of Association - Discussion on Revision for 2013 AGM - Corporate Membership<br>> <br>> <br>> To get this moving a bit I would like to point to the informal poll<br>> Frederik did last year which showed a clear majority for allowing a<br>> non-voting corporate membership (please note the "supporting membership"<br>> mentioned in the poll has nothing to do with the new membership class<br>> proposed in the current discussions). See http://polls.cc/cyzooQ/results/<br>> <br>> I'm personally not opposed to allowing corporate membership (and don't<br>> see why they shouldn't be allowed to vote), however IMHO nobody has made<br>> a convincing case why a change would be necessary and what the benefits<br>> for the OSMF and OSM would be. I could imagine that when we have a<br>> discussion about what kind of financing model we would like to have in<br>> the future (assuming that impromptu donation drives may become to dicey<br>> and painful with larger yearly budgets) that a possible model would be<br>> at least partial financing via higher membership fees for corporate<br>> members. But then I could easily come up with a number of reasons why<br>> that might not be a good way forward.<br>> <br>> Simon<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> osmf-talk mailing list<br>> osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org<br>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmf-talk<br></div> </div></body>
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