AB Votes/STARTUP membership class
RESOLUTION: STARTUP membership class in September 2014 (not passed)
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.
MOTION HAS NOT PASSED IN THE FORM ABOVE
Action Lars: Schedule discussion in October board meeting re concerns ✓
Further Information
See [2] for the proposal, voting and discussion thread
- We allow STARTUP class members to attend board meetings (even if they are not 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
- See AB_Meeting/February_2015_Minutes
Text in revised Project Charter (Feb 2015)
Approved in AB_Meeting/February_2015_Minutes
Membership Application
Membership Class: _____ Advisory Board Governing Member: $25,000 annual dues _____ Advisory Board Startup Member: $5,000 annual dues * Startup Membership is only available to companies with fewer than 100 consolidated employees and requires approval of the Governing Board Members.
Project Charter
F. Membership Levels The Xen Project Advisory Board has two levels of membership: 1. Governing Members appoint a voting representative to the Advisory Board, with full participation rights in all Xen Project activities. 2. Startup Members will annually elect one (1) Voting Representative per every five (5) Startup Members, limited to at most three (3) Voting Representatives, to represent the Startup Members as a voting member of the Advisory Board. All Startup Members may participate in all meetings of the Advisory Board and Xen Project activities, but only the Voting Representatives shall be counted towards a quorum and entitled to vote on matters before the Advisory Board. Startup Members applications will be accepted only upon a majority vote of the Advisory Board. If during an annual term, an additional five (5) Startup Members are accepted, the Advisory Board may choose to hold an election for an additional Voting Representative.
Commentary During March 2015 Advisory Board Meeting
During the March Board meeting a number of concerns about the text change were raised
- There were different views as to whether the charter text accurately reflect the text as from the resolution, aka.The first and each subsequent Advisory Board seat requires at least 5 new Startup class members..
- It is not clear what happens when during the year a Startup Member company disappears and the member of Startup members falls below the treshhold required for a voting representative (note: membership cancellations do have to be made in December each year, so technically companies cannot drop out of the Advisory Board during the course of a year)