Memberships

# Association member

Memberships

 

Founding members

Annual fee

FREE

Benefits
  • Define the strategy, the priorities and future development directions for OLOS
  • One permanent seat on the Board of the Association
  • All the benefits of Gold members (except for the integration of a storage infrastructure)
Eligibility
  • Contribute to the growth of the OLOS network of end-users and members
  • Elect one representative to serve on the Board of the Association

Gold members

Annual fee

15'000.-

Benefits
  • Option to synchronize one copy of each archive on your own infrastructure and the second on our datacenter. We charge you for 1 copy instead of 2
  • 20% discount on the Advanced package
  • 35% discount on the Premium package
  • All the benefits of Silver members
Eligibility
  • Be a higher education institution, a public or private research institution, a foundation, an association or a private organization whose objectives and mission are in line with those of OLOS
  • Get approved by the Board

Silver members

Annual fee

10'000.-

Benefits
  • 1 vote at the General Assembly
  • 20% discount on the Advanced package
  • 15% discount on the Premium package
  • All the benefits of Bronze members
Eligibility
  • Be a higher education institution, a public or private research institution, a foundation, an association or a private organization whose objectives and mission are in line with those of OLOS
  • Get approved by the Board

Bronze members

Annual fee

5'000.-

Benefits
  • One end-user training per year
  • One admin training per year
  • Customer and technical support for your researchers (best effort)
  • Your logo added to our list of members on olos.swiss
Eligibility
  • Be a higher education institution, a public or private research institution, a foundation, an association or a private organization whose objectives and mission are in line with those of OLOS
  • Get approved by the Board

Community members

Annual fee

FREE

Benefits
  • Invitations to special events organized for our community
  • Invitations to technical webinars
Eligibility
  • Any company or individual developer interested in reusing or contributing to the source code on a voluntary basis
  • Any person interested by Open Science or data preservation
 
Notes
  • VAT is charged on top.
  • Members joining after June 1st of a given year are charged half of the annual membership fee.
  • Memberships are automatically renewed at the beginning of each new calendar year unless terminated in writing before September 1st of the previous year.
  • Funding members who connect their storage infrastructure will be charged an annual service fee corresponding to the Gold membership fee.