<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eddy_nigg@startcom.org">eddy_nigg@startcom.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Hi Chris,<br>
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On 06/03/2009 02:03 AM, Chris Messina:<div class="im"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div>Are you a corporate foundation member?</div>
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Would I complain otherwise...? ;-)<div class="im">
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<div>If so, what level member are you?</div>
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Huuu? I'm not aware of any levels, only two different membership types,
e.g. Individual or Company/Organizational as per
<a href="https://openid.net/foundation/members/members" target="_blank">https://openid.net/foundation/members/members</a><div class="im"></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There are seven membership levels:</div>
<div><div><ul><li>Individual - $25</li><li>Non-Profit Organization - $100</li><li>Organization with 1 - 25 Employees - $500</li><li>Organization with 26 - 100 Employees - $1500</li><li>Organization with 101 - 250 Employees - $2500</li>
<li>Organization with 251 - 1000 Employees - $5000</li><li>Organization with More Than 1000 Employees - $10000</li></ul></div></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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However not having any promotional materials and going efforts doesn't
make it any better, the shortcoming remains the same. Press releases
(it's blog style these days) aren't made with the corporate members
included as promised. Issuing no press releases anymore reduces this
benefit to hot air at best. It's an empty promise. (We promise to
include your company name in press releases - just we don't make any
PRs)<div class="im"></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure when or how these benefits were developed, but I agree that as they've not been kept, they should be removed from the membership benefits. The Foundation should be a steward of the technology, promoting adoption of the technology, but not necessarily endorsing any one vendor over another.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Of course, there's the balance to seek between being arcane and cryptic by avoiding mentioning any OPs or RPs and thereby forcing people to look elsewhere for representative examples of OpenID providers. Hopefully as we rework the website, this will become less of an issue.</div>
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<div>I'd love to see something like <a href="http://djangopeople.net" target="_blank">djangopeople.net</a> set up for the
OpenID community, but as Luke said, resources have been the major
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With a 350K US$ budged? You must be joking....or priorities are maybe
wrong, not sure...<div class="im"></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure where all the sponsorship money has gone, but that's why we have an executive director to tell us how the foundation money has been spent!</div>
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<div>Can you articulate your cause for the benefit of those
unfamiliar with it?</div>
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Not sure what your question is exactly. But obviously I fail to
understand which benefit a corporate member should have received during
the course of one year when comparing to individual membership. See the
differences yourself here: <br>
<a href="https://openid.net/foundation/members/members" target="_blank">https://openid.net/foundation/members/members</a><div class="im"><br></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>You mentioned asking for a specific thing or benefit for a long time that you've still not received. Do you just mean that StartCom hasn't been promoted on the website?<div>
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