Dear Working Group members, dear interested parties,
on March 11th, the Steering Committee held a discussion on the future of the activities of the OpenMDM Working Group.
One of the problems that were discussed was the difficult financial situation of the Working Group, which in the long term endangers or even makes impossible
the necessary maintenance of the results of our work in the form of concepts and open source software.
In order to ensure at least minimal cross-company coordination and quality assurance in software development, the Steering Committee plans to implement the
following changes:
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There is only one general membership in the Working Group with one vote per member in the Steering Committee and the opportunity to participate in the committees of the Working Group. A moderate annual membership
fee that is the same for all participants is charged for membership.
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With this money, a product manager and two committers from different service provider companies are to be commissioned by Eclipse. The tasks of these people is to coordinate the development and to monitor the quality
of the software (e.g. through reviews of contributions, execution of merge requests, elimination of simple errors). An annual effort of approx. 36 person-days is planned for this.
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The implementation of new functions, more extensive maintenance work and the elimination of problems that cannot be dealt with in the above budget are carried out directly by interested companies - either through
their own work or by commissioning service providers. In the latter case, the integration of a contribution into the openMDM software should be part of the order.
The moderate annual fee should also help to make working group membership more attractive and to attract more participants in the long term.
In order to ensure the financing of the expected costs in the first step, the Steering Committee plans to set the membership fee at approx. € 3500 per year.
All interested parties and users of openMDM as well as members of the Working Group are asked to give a brief statement by
16.04.2021 as to whether they are under these circumstances willing to become or remain a member of the openMDM Working Group and to support the Working Group with a membership fee of
3500 € per year.
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