Re: Foundation summary

[jg pa dec com (Jim Gettys)]

Both the X Consortium had and W3C have such a sliding scale: I beleive
full membership is 50K, and for little guys, it is 5k.  I don't remember
where the size cutoff is for the price break.  Scale appropriately downwards,
me thinks...
				- Jim

> Sender: foundation-list-admin@gnome.org
> From: John Kodis <kodis@jagunet.com>
> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 20:22:52 -0400
> To: foundation-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: Foundation summary
> -----
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 03:40:25PM -0700, Bart Decrem wrote:
> 
> > So we'd ask corporate members to contribute between $10,000
> > and $20,000 annually.  Let me know if you have thoughts on that.
> 
> I'd like to see some type of a sliding scale.  $20K may be a
> noise-level expense for Sun or IBM, but it could be several month's
> operating capital for the proverbial "two guys working out of a
> garage" type of small start-up.  The fee structure should take this
> into account, and encourage the small guys to join.
> 
> -- John Kodis.
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Jim Gettys
Technology and Corporate Development
Compaq Computer Corporation
jg@pa.dec.com