[Osmf-talk] OSMF Articles of Association - Discussion on Revision for 2013 AGM - Corporate Membership

[Simon Poole]

Am 02.05.2013 15:22, schrieb Tom Chance:
> On 2 May 2013 12:14, Simon Poole <simon at osmfoundation.org
> <mailto:simon at osmfoundation.org>> wrote:
>
>     I could imagine that when we have a
>     discussion about what kind of financing model we would like to have in
>     the future (assuming that impromptu donation drives may become to
>     dicey
>     and painful with larger yearly budgets) that a possible model would be
>     at least partial financing via higher membership fees for corporate
>     members.
>
>
> I haven't seen an equivalent to Frederik's opinion poll on the kind of
> financing model we want. But my impression is that the majority don't
> want to see OSMF become a larger, staffed organisation with
> fundraisers and the like. There isn't an appetite for raising
> significant sums of money from corporations for OSMF activities. If a
> future board was elected with a clear mandate to go in this direction
> (which I would personally support) then that would change things.
>
Just to pre-empt getting too sidetracked on this, my remark had mainly
to do with the expectation that our operations related spend will
increase at least by a factor two to three over the next years
(regardless of technical implementation) simply driven by growth and not
related to a change in our current business model. For the sake of the
argument assume that we are spend £240k per year, clearly doable per
donation drive, but an equally viable scenario could be 24 corporate
members at £10k/year.

This was just some food for thought and I don't want to dwell further on
this right now since the board hasn't had a chance to discuss this
outlook (which is based in part on the OWG 5 year plan). In any case it
is extremely unlikely, given growth and the extremely good deals we have
on our hosting infrastructure, that we are going to be spending less
money in the future.


Simon
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