Hi Jaap, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: > If I compare the spreadsheet with the sponsors listed on > http://foundation.gnome.org/ I see that not every sponsor pays a > contribution.
The foundation rules are: * Advisory board members are by invitation only * Non-profits pay no contribution to be on the advisory board - this rule applies to Debian, FSF, SFLC, MoFo, Sugar Labs. * For-profit companies pay an annual membership fee. * Large companies (>50 employees): $10,000 * Small companies (<50 employees): $ 5,000 > I can imagine that non-profit do not have to pay to become a > foundation member. Though I think a non profit like Mozilla has so > much revenue that you could ask for a contribution I think. We do, we have. Mozilla is a regular generous supporter of the foundation - including a contribution to the Accessibility project last year, and regular sponsorship of GUADEC. > However Openedhand and Imendio are as far as I know a commercial > company. Don't they financially help the foundation in 2009? OpenedHand is now a subset of Intel, who are a paying member of the advisory board. Imendio has ceased operation; I believe that we have made contact with Lanedo, the company which has taken over most of Imendio's employees and clients. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
