[OpenID board] Funding Proposal

Dick Hardt dick at sxip.com
Mon Apr 9 23:02:56 UTC 2007


I would keep it simple and keep the sponsorship and membership  
revenue separated.

Organizations will have different motivations for each financial  
commitment, and it creates an unfair value to larger organizations to  
combine them.

-- Dick

On 9-Apr-07, at 3:58 PM, Recordon, David wrote:

> 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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