[Osmf-talk] Corporate Membership - Final draft, please review

[Martijn van Exel]

Hi Christoph,

Good points you raise. Thanks.

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016, at 15:41, Christoph Hormann wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 August 2016, Martijn van Exel wrote:
> > Hi OSMF members,
> >
> > After taking in the feedback from the previous draft and more
> > discussion in the July and August board meetings, we have brought the
> > Corporate Membership tiers document to a final draft stage. I updated
> > the piratepad to reflect the latest version, see
> > http://piratepad.nl/XTbNyUCAT1
> 
> Looks fairly good to me.
> 
> I am still worried about the big financial gap between normal/associate 
> membership and corporate membership.

That is a good point and we actually discussed this, but I failed to
include a lower tier. Do you think perhaps a €500 level would be
appropriate? What could be the benefits? (They should be fairly minimal)

> 
> Two other things:
> 
> - how will the transit be for current corporate members? Will they be 
> asked to upgrade their membership, will they be automatically upgraded 
> as bronze members or will they remain as a separate legacy corporate 
> member class?

That is not decided. We should discuss this in an upcoming board
meeting.

> 
> - having current numbers for the membership (the published ones are from 
> December 2015) could be helpful to form an opinion on the matter.

Good point, and Ilya is working on more transparency around that.

Martijn