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Add individual membership #21

Open mishushakov opened 1 month ago

mishushakov commented 1 month ago

I spoke with Kyle from GitHub and with David (Sentry) about this quite a bit and would love to join as an individual fund.

I'm already sponsoring some folks through GitHub Sponsors, but I feel what would be awesome is to also highlight how individuals can take part in Open Source Pledge.

vladh commented 1 month ago

Amazing, thank you! I think this is fine since we already have members who only have one developer.

The only question that I can think of is how/if companies and individuals should be differentiated (1) in the marketing materials and (2) on the website. Perhaps the best way to solve this cleanly is to say that we don't make a differentiation, but we just sort members by pledge amount, which I hope will incentivise further high-pledge members.

@chadwhitacre what do you think?

mishushakov commented 1 month ago

Open Collective for instance makes that distinction: https://opencollective.com/curl

chadwhitacre commented 1 month ago

First, I think it's admirable that you are such a strong supporter of Open Source @mishushakov. Well done! 😌🙏

Second, I think we should handle this as a special case of tiering if/when we get to it. We don't have a ticket for that yet but it's come up a couple times, the idea is that it might make sense to bucket companies by number of employees—less than 10, less than 100, 1000, 10000, and then up. It would seem natural to bring in an individual tier along with that.

Third, I think we should park this idea for now so we can focus on the October launch.