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[News.eclipse.foundation] Re: What's the value of an Associate Membership?

Tom Morris wrote:

signed up as an Associate Member of the Eclipse Foundation. As the list of documents that the lawyers need to review grows longer (13 of them at

Many members take solice that there are hundreds of organizations that have reviewed and approved the same set of documents, so hopefully this does not become too much of a burden.


In the membership benefits matrix at

I generally summarize Associate Membership as having 2 key benefits:
1 - You are hooked up to the "speeds and feeds" of information that come out of the Eclipse community - marketing lists, membership-at-large lists, etc. It's a way to consolidate the diverse set of information coming from Eclipse.
2 - It's a signal of support (this is a bi-directional benefit). You are showing your community that you value Eclipse which helps us, and hopefully helps you. Marketing weenies would simply refer to it as "Brand Association".


- Don