Updates to the Membership Prospectus, removing "Enterprise" Membership
type from the pricing table and the content.
Change-Id: I008e3bf35c668c7f2561a0156c94bb3175985ef4
Signed-off-by: Christie Witt <christie.witt@eclipse-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Christopher Guindon <chris.guindon@eclipse-foundation.org>
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index eb32fb3..c0a33e6 100644
--- a/membership_prospectus/content/en_index.php
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<p>Organizations join the Eclipse Foundation because they want to take an active role in supporting sustainable, commercializable open source technologies that benefit all and to demonstrate the value of those open source technologies to the success of their businesses. </p>
<p>Our members:</p>
<ul>
- <li><strong>Participate</strong> in a thriving developer community, and provide contributions to the Eclipse projects they rely on</li>
- <li><strong>Protect</strong> their strategic investments by participating in defining priorities for advancing the technologies they care about, avoiding leaving the features, quality, and sustainability of important technologies to others or to chance</li>
- <li><strong>Share</strong> costs and innovation, especially on projects that represent core capabilities “below the value line”, while focusing their resources on rapidly building differentiated features that customers value most</li>
- <li><strong>Benefit</strong> from ensuring they comply with antitrust laws while sharing intellectual property and embedding clean intellectual property into their commercial products</li>
- <li><strong>Prosper</strong> by sharing open source commercialization best practices with industry peers </li>
- <li><strong>Promote</strong> their accomplishments and demonstrate their good corporate citizenship through contributions to open source projects</li>
+ <li><strong>Participate</strong> in a thriving developer community and provide contributions to <a href="/projects/">Eclipse projects</a> and <a href="/org/workinggroups/">Eclipse Working Groups</a></li>
+ <li><strong>Protect</strong> your strategic investments by signaling your support for advancing the technologies you care about</li>
+ <li><strong>Share</strong> costs and innovation while focusing resources on rapidly building differentiated features that customers value most</li>
+ <li><strong>Benefit</strong> from strong governance, solid intellectual property management, and inclusive open source community development</li>
+ <li><strong>Prosper</strong> by sharing open source commercialization best practices with industry peers</li>
+ <li><strong>Promote</strong> accomplishments and good corporate citizenship through contributions to open source projects</li>
</ul>
<h2>The Eclipse Foundation Governance Model</h2>
<p>The Eclipse community consists of individual developers and organizations spanning many industries. The community participates in Eclipse open source projects, organized under top-level projects that provide oversight and guidance. Each top-level project has a charter and scope and is governed by a Project Management Committee. </p>
@@ -35,62 +35,58 @@
<p>The Eclipse Foundation is funded by annual dues from our <a href="/membership">members</a> and governed by a <a href="/org/foundation/directors.php">Board of Directors</a>. The Foundation employs a full-time <a href="/org/foundation/staff.php">professional staff</a> to provide services to the community.</p>
<h2>Key Services of the Eclipse Foundation</h2>
<h3><a href="/org/#Development">Development Process</a></h3>
- <p>The Eclipse community has a well-earned reputation for providing high-quality software, reliably and predictably. The Eclipse Foundation provides services and supports to help projects consistently achieve their goals. Our staff assists new projects in implementing the <a href="/projects/dev_process/">Eclipse Development Process</a>, a set of procedures and rules that form our best practices. </p>
+ <p>The Eclipse community has a well-earned reputation for providing high-quality software, reliably and predictably. The Eclipse Foundation provides services and support to help projects consistently achieve their goals. Our staff assists new projects in implementing the Eclipse development process, a set of procedures and rules that form our best practices.</p>
<h3><a href="/org/#IP_Management">IP Management</a></h3>
- <p>We focus on enabling the use of open source technology in commercial software products and services. All Eclipse projects are licensed under the <a href="/legal/epl-2.0/">Eclipse Public License (EPL)</a>, a commercial friendly, OSI approved license. In addition, the Eclipse Foundation due diligence process helps to validate the pedigree of the intellectual property contained in Eclipse projects.</p>
+ <p>We focus on enabling the use of open source technology in commercial software products and services. All Eclipse projects are licensed under OSI approved license including the <a href="/legal/epl-2.0/">Eclipse Public License</a> (EPL). In addition, the Eclipse Foundation due diligence process helps to validate the pedigree of the intellectual property contained in Eclipse projects.</p>
<h3><a href="/org/#Ecosystem">Ecosystem Development and Marketing</a></h3>
- <p>The Eclipse Foundation’s strategic marketing programs promote Eclipse community engagement, drive awareness and discoverability of Eclipse technologies, and increase the commercial adoption of Eclipse technologies. We organize a number of activities, including cooperative marketing events with member companies, conferences, local events, and quarterly and annual members meetings.</p>
+ <p>The Eclipse Foundation’s strategic marketing programs promote Eclipse community engagement, drive awareness and discoverability of Eclipse technologies, and increase the commercial adoption of Eclipse technologies. We organize a number of activities, including cooperative marketing events with member companies, virtual events, conferences, local events, and annual members meetings.</p>
<h3><a href="/org/#IT">IT Infrastructure</a></h3>
- <p>The Eclipse Foundation provides vendor-neutral, reliable and scalable services for Eclipse technology developers and users. IT infrastructure services delivered to the Eclipse community include source code repositories, build infrastructure, development-oriented mailing lists and newsgroups, a download site, and website.</p>
+ <p>The Eclipse Foundation provides vendor-neutral, reliable and scalable services for Eclipse technology developers and users. IT infrastructure services delivered to the Eclipse community include source code repositories, build infrastructure, development-oriented mailing lists and newsgroups, a <a href="/downloads/">downloads</a> site, and project and working group websites.</p>
<h3>Membership at the Eclipse Foundation</h3>
- <p>The Foundation offers five levels of membership: Strategic, Enterprise, Solutions, Associate, and Committer. Collectively, these levels of membership comprise the Eclipse Membership-at-Large. </p>
+ <p>The Foundation offers four levels of membership: Strategic, Solutions, Associate, and Committer. Collectively, these levels of membership comprise the Eclipse Membership-at-Large. </p>
<h4>Strategic Members</h4>
- <p>Strategic Members play an integral role in the Eclipse ecosystem. Strategic members are organizations that view participation in Eclipse projects as strategic to their business and are investing significant developer and other resources to further drive Eclipse technology. Typically, Strategic Members lead one or more top-level project. Strategic membership benefits include:</p>
+ <p>Strategic Members play an integral role in the Eclipse Foundation ecosystem. Strategic members are organizations that view participation in Eclipse projects as strategic to their business and are investing significant developer and other resources to further drive Eclipse Foundation technology. Typically, Strategic Members lead one or more top-level projects. Strategic membership benefits include:</p>
<ul>
<li>A seat on Board of Directors of Eclipse Foundation</li>
- <li>A seat on Foundation councils, including both the Planning and Architecture councils</li>
- <li>Access to a number of Strategic Members Only Programs such as banner and logo promotion on eclipse.org and eclipse.org/downloads</li>
- <li>Intellectual Property Analysis and Reporting</li>
- <li>Help to launch Open Source initiative(s)</li>
- <li>Direct influence through Board voting rights on key aspects of the Eclipse ecosystem, including licensing, governing policy development, project reviews, and amendments to Membership Agreement and Bylaws</li>
- <li>Significant discounts towards sponsorship and attendance of Eclipse Foundation run events such as:</li>
- <li>EclipseCons Access to Eclipse Foundation marketing and advertising programs</li>
- <li>Ability to lead in the establishment of Working Groups</li>
- <li>Access to Information (mail lists, attend members-only meetings)</li>
- <li>Show of support (logo exchange, etc.)</li>
- </ul>
- <h4>Enterprise Members</h4>
- <p>Enterprise Members are organizations that rely heavily on Eclipse technologies for their internal development projects and/or act strategically building products and services built on, or with, Eclipse technologies. Enterprise membership benefits include:</p>
- <ul>
- <li>Intellectual Property Analysis and Reporting</li>
- <li>Help to launch Open Source initiative(s)</li>
- <li>Voting rights for board representation, project reviews, and amendments to Membership Agreement and Bylaws</li>
- <li>Significant discounts towards sponsorship and attendance of Eclipse Foundation run events such as EclipseCons</li>
- <li>Access to Eclipse Foundation marketing and advertising programs</li>
- <li>Ability to participate in Working Groups</li>
- <li>Access to Information (mail lists, attend members-only meetings)</li>
- <li>Show of support (logo exchange, etc.)</li>
+ <li>A seat on Foundation councils, including the Architecture Council</li>
+ <li>The opportunity to attend and vote at all meetings of the Membership At-Large</li>
+ <li>Access to a number of Strategic Members-Only Programs such as banner and logo promotion on <a href="http://eclipse.org">eclipse.org</a> and <a href="/downloads">eclipse.org/downloads</a></li>
+ <li>Ad hoc Intellectual Property analysis and reporting</li>
+ <li>Help to launch open source initiative(s)</li>
+ <li>Direct influence through board voting rights on key aspects of the Eclipse ecosystem, including licensing, governing policy development, and amendments to Membership Agreement and bylaws</li>
+ <li>Discounts towards sponsorship and attendance of Eclipse Foundation events </li>
+ <li>Access to Eclipse Foundation marketing and <a href="https://outreach.eclipse.foundation/advertise">advertising programs</a></li>
+ <li>Opportunity to lead in the establishment of Eclipse Working Groups</li>
+ <li>Opportunity to join and participate on all Eclipse Foundation public mailing lists</li>
+ <li>Opportunity to show support for Eclipse Foundation by displaying the Eclipse Foundation member logo</li>
</ul>
<h4>Solutions Members</h4>
- <p>Solutions Members are organizations that view Eclipse technologies as important to their corporate and product strategy and offer products and services based on, or with, Eclipse technologies. These organizations want to participate in the development of the Eclipse ecosystem. Solutions membership benefits include:</p>
+ <p>Solutions Members are organizations that view Eclipse Foundation technologies as important to their corporate and product strategy and offer products and services based on, or with, Eclipse Foundation technologies. These organizations want to participate in the development of the broad Eclipse Foundation ecosystem. Most members join initially as Solutions Members. Solutions membership benefits include:</p>
<ul>
- <li>Voting rights for board representation, project reviews, and amendments to Membership Agreement and Bylaws</li>
- <li>Significant discounts towards sponsorship and attendance of Eclipse Foundation run events such as EclipseCons</li>
- <li>Access to Eclipse Foundation marketing and advertising programs</li>
- <li>Ability to participate in Working Groups</li>
- <li>Access to Information (mail lists, attend members-only meetings)</li>
- <li>Show of support (logo exchange, etc.)</li>
+ <li>Solutions Members are represented on the Board of Directors, and thus have influence over decisions relating to licensing, governing policy development, and amendments to Membership Agreement and bylaws</li>
+ <li>Opportunity to stand for election as the representative of all Solutions Members on the Board of Directors. Elections are held annually in the first quarter. </li>
+ <li>The opportunity to attend and vote at all meetings of the Membership At-Large</li>
+ <li>Discounts towards sponsorship and attendance of Eclipse Foundation run events </li>
+ <li>Access to Eclipse Foundation marketing and <a href="https://outreach.eclipse.foundation/advertise">advertising programs</a></li>
+ <li>Opportunity to participate in Eclipse Working Groups, including as a Strategic Member of those working groups</li>
+ <li>Opportunity to join and participate on all Eclipse Foundation public mailing lists</li>
+ <li>Opportunity to show support for the Eclipse Foundation by displaying the Eclipse Foundation Member logo </li>
</ul>
<h4>Associate Members</h4>
- <p>Associate Members are organizations that participate in and want to show support for, the Eclipse ecosystem. Many research and educational institutions choose to join as an Associate member. Associate membership benefits include:</p>
+ <p>Associate Members are organizations that participate in and want to show support for the Eclipse Foundation ecosystem. Many research and educational institutions choose to join as an Associate member. Associate membership benefits include:</p>
<ul>
- <li>Access to Information (mail lists, attend members-only meetings)</li>
- <li>Ability to join select Eclipse Working Groups as a Guest member </li>
- <li>Show of support (logo exchange, etc.)</li>
+ <li>Opportunity to join and participate on all Eclipse public mailing lists, and to attend Members meetings</li>
+ <li>Ability to join select Eclipse Working Groups as a Guest Member</li>
+ <li>The opportunity to attend all meetings of the Membership At-Large</li>
+ <li>Opportunity to show support for Eclipse Foundation by displaying the Eclipse Foundation Member logo</li>
</ul>
<h4>Committer Members</h4>
- <p>Eclipse Foundation’s governance model provides individual committers with the ability to become full members and includes representation on the Eclipse Board of Directors. Committer Members are individuals that are the core developers of the Eclipse projects and can commit changes to project source code. </p>
- <p>Learn more about Committer membership in the Eclipse Foundation <a href="/membership/become_a_member/committer.php" >here</a>.</p>
+ <p>Eclipse Foundation’s governance model provides individual committers with the ability to become full members and includes representation on the Eclipse Board of Directors. Committer Members are individuals that are the core developers of the Eclipse projects and can commit changes to project source code. Committer membership benefits include:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Committer Members are represented on the Board of Directors, and thus have influence over decisions relating to licensing, governing policy development, and amendments to Membership Agreement and bylaws</li>
+ <li>Opportunity to stand for election as the representative of all Committer Members on the Board of Directors. Elections are held annually in the first quarter. </li>
+ <li>The opportunity to attend and vote at all meetings of the Membership At-Large</li>
+ </ul>
<p>Additional details regarding the various membership levels in the Eclipse Foundation are available <a href="/membership/become_a_member/membershipTypes.php#strategic" >here</a>.</p>
<h2>Membership Fees</h2>
<p>The Membership-at-Large Annual Fee Comparison Chart based on membership levels is provided below for illustration purposes only. Please see the Eclipse Membership Agreement for full details.</p>
@@ -99,11 +95,10 @@
<thead>
<tr>
<th rowspan="2">Annual Corporate Revenue</th>
- <th class="text-center" colspan="4">Annual Eclipse Foundation Membership-at-Large Fees*</th>
+ <th class="text-center" colspan="3">Annual Eclipse Foundation Membership-at-Large Fees*</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Strategic **</th>
- <th>Enterprise</th>
<th>Solutions</th>
<th>Associate</th>
</tr>
@@ -112,56 +107,48 @@
<tr>
<td>> $250 million</td>
<td>$250,000</td>
- <td>$100,000</td>
<td>$20,000</td>
<td>$5,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>$100 million - $250 million</td>
<td>$150,000</td>
- <td>$75,000</td>
<td>$15,000</td>
<td>$5,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>$50 million - $100 million</td>
<td>$100,000</td>
- <td>$62,500</td>
<td>$10,000</td>
<td>$5,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>$10 million - $50 million</td>
<td>$50,000</td>
- <td>$50,000</td>
<td>$7,500</td>
<td>$5,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>< $10 million</td>
<td>$25,000</td>
- <td>N/A</td>
<td>$5,000</td>
<td>$5,000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>< $1 million, < 10 employees</td>
<td>$25,000</td>
- <td>$25,000</td>
- <td>$5,000</td>
+ <td>$1,500</td>
<td>N/A</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Govt, academics, NGOs, etc.</td>
<td>$25,000</td>
- <td>$25,000</td>
<td>$5,000</td>
<td>$0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Academic, Research or Publishing Organizations, etc</td>
<td>$25,000</td>
- <td>$25,000</td>
<td>$5,000</td>
<td>$0</td>
</tr>
@@ -172,7 +159,7 @@
</div>
</div>
<h2>How to Join as a Member of the Eclipse Foundation</h2>
- <p>Once you have chosen the level of membership (e.g., Strategic, Enterprise, Solutions, Associate, Committer):</p>
+ <p>Once you have chosen the level of membership (e.g., Strategic, Solutions, Associate, Committer):</p>
<ul>
<li>Complete and sign the <a href="/membership/documents/membership-information-form.pdf">Membership Information Form</a></li>
<li>Complete and sign the <a href="/org/documents/eclipse_membership_agreement.pdf">Membership Agreement</a></li>
