Hi Chris,
On 06/03/2009 02:03 AM, Chris Messina:
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
In particular I see the following critical shortcomings with
benefits of Company/Organizational Membership:
* Display your corporate logo/name on the OpenID Foundation
website and promotional materials
* Be eligible for inclusion in OpenID Foundation press
releases and industry events
For any corporate member this might a critical added value for
becoming a corporate foundation member of the foundation. Those
are the benefits which differ from the individual membership. When
looking at the fees, this has a hefty price too. But we haven't
received them!!!
Are you a corporate foundation member?
Would I complain otherwise...? ;-)
If so, what level member are you?
Huuu? I'm not aware of any levels, only two different membership types,
e.g. Individual or Company/Organizational as per
https://openid.net/foundation/members/members
If it's any consolation, besides the logo thing on the website, we
really haven't done any promotional efforts, so besides the "Get an
OpenID" page, there really aren't any other logos on the site.
That would be a good start already. I've been asking for it for some
year. You can judge the "damage" caused by lack of exposure and
promotion by yourself. A benefit other members (and maybe non-members)
received during the same period.
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)
I'd love to see something like djangopeople.net
<http://djangopeople.net> set up for the OpenID community, but as
Luke said, resources have been the major limiting factor there.
With a 350K US$ budged? You must be joking....or priorities are maybe
wrong, not sure...
Can you articulate your cause for the benefit of those unfamiliar with it?
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:
https://openid.net/foundation/members/members
Regards
Signer: Eddy Nigg, StartCom Ltd. <http://www.startcom.org>
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