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Membership fees support the organization as well as open source development of model driven technologies. Members have full access to the community portal and may contribute to the open source development. Corporate and government users above the community level have access to support, commercial builds, indemnification and may direct portions of their membership to particular projects. Commercial providers may offer products or services that support the open source community.

Community Membership

Revenues/Budget
Membership Fee
Directed Funds
Individual
$250

Student
$200

Small Organization
<10m
$5000
25% of funds may be directed to help sponsor an open source project
Medium Organization
$10m-$100m
$15,000
40% of funds may be directed to help sponsor an open source project
Large Organization
>$100m
$35,000
40% of funds may be directed to help sponsor an open source project

Community Membership Participants will have access to participate in the projects repository and community resources (Forums, Wikis, Etc). Participants may submit intellectual property for consideration by the commit authority. Participants are expected to provide a minimum of ½ FTE as project resources.

Commercial Membership

Commercial Members may provide projects and/or services through ModelDriven.org and are eligible to be funded for open source development (based on funds from members). Contact ModelDriven.org to join as a commercial member.

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 Membership
Community membership provided with a ModelDriven.org verified identity and can participate in open source projects and open forums for a single project.
Community membership provided with a ModelDriven.org verified identity and can participate in open source projects and open forums for a single project.
Community membership provided with a ModelDriven.org verified identity and can participate in open source projects and open forums for a single project.
Contributing Membership
Sponsors projects (perhaps by donating open source assets) and has full access to all forms and projects.
Eligible for funded contribution to sponsored projects.
Contributing membership for individuals is intended for independent professionals.
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 open source, to the community.
Eligible for funded contribution to sponsored projects
Premier Membership
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.
Open source indemnification.
Founding Membership
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.

The fees from enhanced membership levels provide directed funds for open source development as well as additional member benefits. Please contact ModelDriven.org to upgrade your membership.

Definitions

Directed Funds

Membership fees may be directed to support portfolio development projects. The funding for projects will be based on this member directed funding. Portfolio development projects may be funded at the following levels.

Funding Level	Rights	Directed Funds
Participant	Participants will have access to the projects repository and resources. Participants may submit intellectual property for consideration by the commit authority. Participants are expected to provide a minimum of ½ FTE as project resources.	25%
Contributor	Participants will have access to the projects repository and resources. Contributors will have a vote in the projects’ issue resolution process.	40%
Sponsor	Sponsors have full rights to all the projects resources and will have a right to participate the projects’ core team as well as have commit authority for projects.	60%

Commercial builds

One of the challenges of Open Source is the time and cost of integrating, building, testing updating and supporting Open Source solutions. ModelDriven.org removes this barrier by providing integrated, tested, supported and ready to install “commercial builds” based on Open Source. This model of Open Source product follows the model of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Commercial builds are available as a product from ModelDriven.org but are provided to members as part of their membership fee. The extent of the commercial product license is governed by membership category. Since the commercial build is managed and tested, it can be properly supported as well.

At this time it is expected that there will be a single commercial build that integrates the product-ready portions of the ModelDriven.org projects as well as validated Open Source from other organizations. As ModelDriven.org progresses, there may be additional commercial build packages.

Licensing for the commercial build applies to architects, “power users” and developers, not to end users of solutions. There is no licensing cost for deployed applications.

Due to the maturity level of the technologies the commercial build is still under development and not expected to be completed until late 2007. Interim builds will be available as the technologies mature.