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

[donald.smith@xxxxxxxxxxx (Donald Smith)]

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