[OWASP-Chapters] Membership plan update

[Ralf Durkee]

I like the idea. It's also similar to what the Center for Internet 
Security has done.

I'm a little confused on the individual and educational members, it 
sounded like they were given commercial licenses in pages 1-2, and then 
page 3 near the bottom, it sounded like they are paying for an open 
source license.  I would expect they would get a commercial license for 
the individual or educational org.

The prices seem a little high starting with small org, I know the CIS 
consulting license is $4000/yr ... well oops, it was ... looks like they 
raised their prices <http://www.cisecurity.org/membership.html> and the 
OWASP prices are very similar.   Hmmmm...  I still think about half of 
the current prices would attack more members until we got more momentum 
going.  It will be interesting to see if the price increase for CIS 
decreases the membership.

-- Ralf Durkee, CISSP, GSEC, GCIH
Principal Consultant
http://rd1.net

Jeff Williams wrote:
> Folks, here is the updated OWASP membership plan.  This plan offers 
> companies the option to become a member and get a single commercial 
> license to all OWASP materials (among other things).  Anyone can 
> continue to use OWASP materials under the existing open source 
> licenses.  This provides companies that wish to support OWASP a concrete 
> way to do it that gives them some benefit.
> 
> Many thanks to Dinis for his help in coming up with a plan that I 
> believe will ensure that OWASP succeeds while remaining free, open, and 
> respected. Please send me your thoughts on the plan.  Raising enough 
> money to support some full-time staff for OWASP is extremely important 
> to the future of our organization.
> 
> Thank you all for your continued support.
> 
> --Jeff