The Open Source Modelica Consortium (OSMC)

Director and Team

Between Board meetings and Annual Meetings, the Director is OSMC's main point of contact. The Director is responsible for and lead the day-to-day work of OSMC between Board meetings and Annual Meetings, but also has the right to delegate appropriate parts the work to the technical coordinator and co-workers.

Membership

Why Become a Member

How to Become a Member

There are two types of members: individual members and organizational members.

An organization can become a member by submitting a membership application to the OSMC Board, and payiing a membership fee according to their size and type of license conditions desired, see the table below.

Individuals who made significant contributions to OpenModelica can become Level 1 members for free, after decision by the Director.

Membership Benefits

OpenModelica is open-source, and is available to anyone, including members, under the OSMC-GPL option of the OSMC Public License. [Note that the OSMC Public License is different from and incompatible with GPL. Therefore it is not possible to include any GPL-licensed contribution into OpenModelica.]

However, for members the following shall additionally apply:

• Members have the additional option of using OpenModelica, in particular together with proprietary code according to the EPL options of the OSMC Public License.
• Organizational members have voting rights at Annual Meetings.
• Organizational members have the right to display their logos and have web links to their organizations at an appropriate place in the OSMC web site.
• Members can influence the future development of OpenModelica.
• Individual members and organizational member employees (or their organization in case individuals cannot/ should not be mentioned) who have made significant contributions have the right to be acknowledged as co-authors of common documents, and as co-authors in commentary text in the program modules they have contributed to.
• Members, organizational or individual, who have made significant contributions, should be acknowledged as contributors in appropriate documents associated with OpenModelica [e.g. in the Users Guide or System Documentation].

Membership Types and Annual Fees

There are two main kinds of members: organizational members (any legal person/business partnership) and individual members (for any natural person). The membership fee varies according to the size of the organization, whether the organization chooses the honorary Gold or Silver sponsorship membership levels, and whether the member is allowed to redistribute OpenModelica in binary form for commercial purposes outside its own organization (Level 2 member) as specified by the OSMC Public License. For a non-profit organization such as a university, research institute, or similar, the engaged research group size (or sum of the sizes if several engaged groups) determines the annual fee. To further clarify:

• A Level 1 membership is a basic membership level that allows the member to combine OpenModelica with proprietary code for internal use according to the OSMC-Internal-EPL mode of the OSMC Public License.
• A Level 2 membership is a membership level that allows the member to combine OpenModelica with proprietary code for internal use and/or external distribution in binary form according to the OSMC-External-EPL mode of the OSMC Public License.
• Individual persons can become Level 1 individual members for free.

The table below shows the current annual fee. The levels of the annual fee are determined once a year by the Annual Meeting.

Member Type	Number of Employees	Level 1 member Annual Fee in €	Level 2 member Annual Fee in €
			Limited	Unlimited
Org. - Large company, not an SME	> 250	6 000	7 000	20 000
Org. - Medium company, SME	> 50, ≤ 250	3 000	5 000	10 000
Org. - Small company, SME	> 5, ≤ 50	2 000	3 000	5 000
Org. - Very Small Company, SME	≤ 5	1 000	2 000	3 000
Org. - Large Non-profit	Group size > 10	1 000	3 000	5 000
Org. - Small Non-profit	Group size ≤ 10	500	2 000	3 000
Individual member	1	0	2 000	3 000

Note: A limited Level 2 membership allows a total of at most ten active external licenses/distributions under OSMC-External-EPL at any given point in time. The Unlimited version has no limitation.

Gold or Silver Sponsorship Levels

Sponsor level	Sponsorship Annual Fee
	€	"person year contribution"
Gold	≥ 20 000 €	≥ 1.0
Silver	≥ 10 000, < 20 000 €	≤ 1/2, < 1.0

Individual Membership

An individual who so wishes, and who has made a significant contribution to OpenModelica during the previous two years or the current year, can get a Level 1 individual membership for the current year for free, after decision by the Director, and after having signed a membership application form.

List of Consortium Members

Companies and Institutes

Universities

Individual Members

Documents

Apply for membership or read the OSMC bylaws or OSMC-PL License.

Contact

To contact us:  OpenModelica [at] ida.liu.se

Last Update

Last updated Sunday, October 04, 2009 by Adrian Pop [adrpo (at) ida.liu.se].
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