Governance/CorporateSponsorship

= Purpose = At the in-person Board Meeting in Hamburg, Germany on August 19, 2013 the board agree that OWASP should move to a tiered structure Corporate Membership - The board voted to move to a tiered corporate membership model. This enables organizations to support OWASP at a variety of levels. We are still flushing out the final details and we'll soon update the membership matrix. However, there will be 4 tiers ($2,000, $5,000, $20,000, $50,000) with varying benefits provided to the corporate member for each level.

Additionally, the Board determined that corporate member logos should move to an Acknowledgement Page - To provide a single clear page that acknowledges our corporate member supporters we will move the corporate logs from the bottom of the OWASP home page to a dedicated acknowledgement page. The home page will have clear graphics that encourage viewers to click and view the acknowledgements page.

Subsequent to this board discussion, the staff put together a draft of what this tiered structure would look like. Our goal is to collect community feedback and finalize by a Board Vote by December 1, 2013. The transition would start January 1, 2014 with banner ads and logos being removed from the home page by February 1, 2014.

= Corporate Sponsorship =

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