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ModelDriven.org Community ModelDriven.org is a community of government, commercial, university and professional members who use, develop and integrate open source and commercial capabilities to enable agile business solutions based on model driven methods and technologies. This community has both a user/consumer membership and a provider/developer membership. The user community drives the agenda – it is their needs that ModelDriven.org and the provider community are there to address. ModelDriven.org serves the open source community by being an active contributor to open source and sponsoring open source projects that help build the Model Driven vision. ModelDriven.org provides open source developers a way to focus efforts on problems that need to be addressed and a way to build quality software that will really make a difference. ModeDriven.org provides commercial vendors with an outlet for their products and services that support open source and a venue for funded open source projects that are strategically important for both the provider and user communities. User members drive our agenda The ModelDriven.org user community utilize model driven capabilities in their enterprises or communities. While many users members participate in the open source efforts, their primary driver is providing capabilities to their enterprise, government or community. User members may simply use the open source assets of ModelDriven.org or may wish to; Use ModelDriven.org open source assets directly. The general membership provides this capability at no charge. Use ModelDriven.org “Commercial builds” for a supported product environment (under development). Use products and services to leverage and enhance open source from ModelDriven.org provider members. Sponsor open source efforts to make sure what is being worked on meets the users needs. Contribute to ModelDriven.org open source projects, helping and leveraging the community.
Commercial members provide products and services One of the barriers to Open Source has always been the effort it takes to assemble and use Open Source assets and the difficulty of mixing Open Source with commercial products. ModelDriven.org takes a “product like” orientation to Open Source – this gives our user community the benefits of tested, supported and integrated solutions without sunk costs or being locked into any vendor’s infrastructure. On top of the Open Source foundation there are products and services from multiple vendors that work together to provide an enterprise solution. By making sure the underlying frameworks and information are fully open, users can take advantage of best-of-breed applications, tools and infrastructure. Commercial vendors also provide some of the resource for funded Open Source and client specific development projects, ModelDriven.org is able to draw from the entire community – not just one vendor. Because of the commercial support opportunity, commercial vendors are more likely to donate assets to and participate in Open Source – to the benefit of the entire community. Commercial provider members may; Use ModelDriven.org open source assets directly. The general membership provides this capability at no charge. Contribute to open source projects. Participate in funded open source development projects Offer products and services that leverage ModelDriven.org open source capabilities through ModelDriven.org.
Membership Levels | Individuals and University | User Members | Commercial Members | General Free Membership | Free membership provided with a ModelDriven.org verified identity and read access to the portal and open source assets | N/A | N/A | Community Member | Communitymembership provided with a ModelDriven.org verified identity and can participate in open source projects and direct partisipation in a single project. | Community membership provided with a ModelDriven.org verified identity and can participate in open source projects and direct partisipation in a single project. | Community membership provided with a ModelDriven.org verified identity and can participate in open source projects and direct partisipation in a single project. | Contributing Member | Sponsors projects (perhaps by donating open source assets) and has full access to all forms and projects. Eligible for funded contribution to sponsored projects and listing as a profesional. | Sponsors projects (perhaps by donating open source assets) and has full access to all forms and projects. May direct a substantial part of membership to specific projects and vote in issue resolutions. Has access to ModelDriven.org commercial builds and support (under development). | Sponsors projects (perhaps by donating open source assets) and has full access to all forms and projects. May direct a substantial part of membership to specific projects and vote in issue resolutions. May offer products and services, based on or supporting open source, to the community. Eligible for funded contribution to sponsored projects | Premier Member | N/A | Has all the benefits of the contributing member – sponsors major open source projects and initiatives. Has voting rights on architecture board and unlimited internal rights to the commercial builds. Open source indemnification. | Has all the benefits of the contributing member – sponsors and contributes to major open source projects and initiatives. Will have “commit rights” to sponsored projects. Has voting rights on architecture board. Sponsors coordinates and projects with commit rights. | Founding Member | N/A | All the benefits of the premier member plus a seat on the executive advisory council. | All the benefits of the premier member plus a seat on the executive advisory council. |
A specified portion of membership fees as well as profits from product sales are used to fund the open source efforts. Members may direct their membership fees to fund projects of interest, thereby influencing the development of open source resources. Corporate Structure ModelDriven.org is operated as a division of Data Access Technologies, Inc. Conversion of ModelDriven.org to an independent not for profit organization has been discussed but no specific plans are pending.
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