SEAMLESS Association Membership

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Two types of membership are possible, with different privileges and fees:

Developer:

  •  Fee or contribution: 10 keuro per year, whenever possible and needed complemented by in kind contributions; after consultation of the relevant partners the Board may decide that in specific cases a cash contribution can be replaced by an in-kind contribution if the specific expertise is needed;
  • Eligible to deliver a Board member;
  • Membership of the General Assembly
  • Membership of the Advisory Forum;
  • Use of all services;
  • Restricted support for the use of SEAMLESS-IF

User:

  • Fee: 3.5 keuro per year in first year, possibly increasing in next years depending on the services provided;
  • Membership of the Advisory Forum;
  • Use of all services;
  • Restricted support for the use of SEAMLESS-IF.

Membership fees, conditions and rights will be evaluated by the Board at the end of year 1 of the Association and may be changed thereafter upon a decision of the General Assembly.

SEAMLESS-IF and its components are available to members under open source conditions with few exceptions as to some components and a few datasets; a pre-installed version of SEAMLESS-IF on a dedicated server is only accessible to members (developers and users) through login credentials. ‘Developers’ are involved in the decision making of the Association through representation in the Board, General Assembly and membership of the Advisory Forum. Users are members of the Advisory Forum.

Members subscribe the aims of the Association and commit themselves to support the Association in realizing these aims. This can be done through further cash and in-kind contributions, initiation of and participation in new projects (Satellite projects) that use, extend or apply (parts of) SEAMLESS-IF and participation in any of the activities launched by the Association (e.g. related to training or dissemination).

After they end of the SEAMLESS project, SEAMLESS-IF and some components have been transferred from the project to the SEAMLESS Association. Partners of the SEAMLESS project get free access to the servers on which SEAMLESS-IF is pre-installed until September 30, 2009. Thereafter, they have to be a member of the Association to get free access.