[OpenID board] Funding Proposal

[Recordon, David]

I've added you to be able to edit the wiki article.

1) I don't think there is a problem condensing it into "Members" and
"Donors/Sponsors".  I think we separated it to really call out the
difference in this document to how participation is possible.  Agree
though that it may make it easier to understand with Donors and Sponsors
merged into one group.

2) I'm having a bit of trouble with the math for what you proposed.  I
think in some cases it may incent an additional donation, though in the
case where membership fee is $2,500 a year it gets them membership plus
Bronze sponsorship for only $5,625 which is much lower than the
currently proposed $7,500.  So really membership (for organizations
<=1000 employees) turns into 25% of membership fee + Bronze sponsorship.
Thinking (if my math here is right) that it is better to keep it for
Gold and Platinum to include membership (maybe Silver as well for
organizations <=1000 employees) both from the financial side and to keep
all the math simple.

My $0.02.

--David

-----Original Message-----
From: board-bounces at openid.net [mailto:board-bounces at openid.net] On
Behalf Of Drummond Reed
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 3:37 PM
To: board at openid.net
Subject: Re: [OpenID board] Funding Proposal

I too agree this is a very good proposal that offers a nice "hybrid"
model.
Two suggestions for how to simplify/strengthen it further:

1) Currently it has three $ categories: donations, members, and
sponsors. We could simplify it down to two: "Members" and
"Donors/Sponsors". Members has associated fee table based on type/size.
Donors/Sponsors is unstructured and just has categories (the category
for contributions under $5K would simply be called "Donor", and the four
higher categories would be "Bronze/Silver/Gold/Platinum Sponsors").

2) Currently only Gold and Platinum Sponsors have membership included.
If we made the rule that any Donor or Sponsor whose contribution is at
least 25% greater than their membership fee shall have their membership
included, then it would incent all potential Members to become Donors or
Sponsors for an incremental contribution. (However it is still an option
for a company/org to be a Donor/Sponsor and decline membership.)

If these revisions make sense I'm happy to help with wording edits if
David wants to add =drummond to the wiki.

=Drummond 

-----Original Message-----
From: board-bounces at openid.net [mailto:board-bounces at openid.net] On
Behalf Of Dick Hardt
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 1:20 PM
To: board at openid.net
Subject: Re: [OpenID board] Funding Proposal

Nicely done Artur, Bill and David.

I'm supportive of floating this proposal out to the Community where
pay-to-play happens at the membership level rather then the board level.

Note the attached charter was an old copy as I was not listed as a board
member in the copy you sent out to the board.

-- Dick


On 9-Apr-07, at 12:44 PM, Recordon, David wrote:

> Hey all,
> This morning Bill, Artur, and I finally got a chance to sit down and 
> put together another funding proposal for the organization.  This 
> document was based upon the approach Dick proposed [1] as well as the 
> OCO Charter sent to the general@ list [2].
>
> Certainly looking for feedback and thoughts, happy to give others 
> editing rights on the wiki page if you send me your OpenID.  Once 
> again, sorry for how long this took us to take on this work.
>
> http://daveman692.schtuff.com/oidf_proposal
>
> --David
>
> [1] http://openid.net/pipermail/board/2007-March/000071.html
> [2] http://openid.net/pipermail/general/2007-February/001550.html
> (charter attached since it seems it wasn't archived) <OpenID 
> Foundation Charter.txt> 
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