AB Votes/STARTUP membership class

RESOLUTION: STARTUP membership class

RESOLUTION: That a new Xen Project StartUp membership class be created for companies with less than 250 consolidated employees with an annual participation fee of $5,000 USD. StartUp applicants will be accepted for membership only upon approval of the Advisory Board. The StartUp membership class benefits include electing 1 Advisory Board seat for every 10 StartUp class members, limited to at most 3 representatives, and any other benefits the Advisory Board may determine, with approval from The Linux Foundation. The Advisory Board asks The Linux Foundation to update the membership application to reflect the new StartUp membership class.

Voting Results

• Citrix : +1
• CA : +1
• Rackspace : +1
• Cavium : +1
• Intel : +1
• ARM : +1
• Amazon : 0
• Oracle : +1 initially, but later raised concerns at [1] - thus count as -1 until resolved
• AMD : +1

7 in favour - one abstained, one set of concerns.

 Action Lars: Schedule discussion in October board meeting re concerns ✓

Further Information

See [2] for the proposal, voting and discussion thread

Updates to the resolution / related resolutions

• We allow STARTUP class members to attend board meetings (even if they are nor the voting representatives – see AB_Meeting/December_2014_Minutes#Allow_STARTUP_membership_class_members_to_attend_AB_meetings_as_non-voting_attendees)
• See revised proposed resolution below

RESOLVED: That a new Xen Project StartUp membership class be created
for companies with less than 100 consolidated employees with an annual
participation fee of $5,000 USD. StartUp applicants will be accepted
for membership only upon approval of the Advisory Board. The StartUp
membership class benefits include electing 1 Advisory Board seat for
every 5 StartUp class members, limited to at most 3 representatives,
and any other benefits the Advisory Board may determine, with approval
from The Linux Foundation. The first and each subsequent Advisory
Board seat requires at least 5 new StartUp class members. The Advisory
Board asks The Linux Foundation to update the membership application
to reflect the new StartUp membership class.

That addresses concerns raised here and in AB_Meeting/October_2014_Minutes.

• The revised membership application and charter was agreed in the February 2015 board meeting and reflects the changes above
• TODO: add link