:navigation-title: 03-18 Raise Membership Fees
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Board Decision: Raise Membership Fees
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:Proposed at: 18 March 2025
:Decision owner: `Stefan Busemann`_
:Decision status: ✅ Accepted, with **6 yes and 1 abstain**

Attendance and voting
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Board Member              Attendance    Vote
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`Olivier Dobberkau`_      In meeting    ✅ Yes
`Stefan Busemann`_        In meeting    ✅ Yes
`Boris Hinzer`_           In meeting    ✅ Yes
`Rachel Foucard`_         In meeting    ✅ Yes
`Susi Moog`_                            ⚪ Abstain
`Tymoteusz Motylewski`_   In meeting    ✅ Yes
`Thomas Maroschik`_       In meeting    ✅ Yes
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.. _Olivier Dobberkau: https://my.typo3.org/u/oli4
.. _Stefan Busemann: https://my.typo3.org/u/stefan.busemann
.. _Martin Helmich: https://my.typo3.org/u/mhelmich
.. _Jana Höffner: https://my.typo3.org/u/janahh
.. _Thomas Maroschik: https://my.typo3.org/u/tmaroschik
.. _Rachel Foucard: https://my.typo3.org/u/rakel
.. _Boris Hinzer: https://my.typo3.org/u/web-vision
.. _Susi Moog: https://my.typo3.org/u/psychomieze
.. _Tymoteusz Motylewski: https://my.typo3.org/u/tmotylewski

Decision description
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Facts/Problem
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The resources of our project are limited. To have more funds for the implementation of the Product Strategy, the membership fees should be increased

Objective
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The financial resources can be increased by 10% (~70,000 EUR per year)

Obligations to cooperate
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- T3G to implement the change
- The members who need to decide on the GA 

Financial and human resources impacts
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- The financial resources can be increased by 10% (~70,000 EUR per year)
- No money is needed for the implementation

Resolution/Petitum
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- Raise the membership fees by at least 10% per year.
- Setup fee should be paid for every upgrade or downgrade. 

Discarded alternatives
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None

Attachments
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+-----------------+----------------------------+-----------------------------------------+-------------------+---------------------+--------------------------+-----------------+
|                 | Currently                  | Beginning with 2026                     |                   |                     |                          |                 |
+-----------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+------------+--------------+-------------------+---------------------+--------------------------+-----------------+
| Membershiptype  | Yearly      | One Time old | Yearly      | Monthly    | One Time new | Difference Yearly | Difference One Time | Difference One Time in % | % of yearly fee |
+=================+=============+==============+=============+============+==============+===================+=====================+==========================+=================+
| Communtiy       |      7,92 € |       0,00 € |     10,00 € | n/a        |      10,00 € |            26,26% |             10,00 € | n/a                      |         100,00% |
+-----------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+------------+--------------+-------------------+---------------------+--------------------------+-----------------+
| Bronze          |    125,00 € |     100,00 € |    137,50 € | n/a        |     100,00 € |            10,00% |              0,00 € |                    0,00% |          72,73% |
+-----------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+------------+--------------+-------------------+---------------------+--------------------------+-----------------+
| Silver          |  1.000,00 € |     500,00 € |  1.100,00 € | n/a        |     375,00 € |            10,00% |           -125,00 € |                  -25,00% |          34,09% |
+-----------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+------------+--------------+-------------------+---------------------+--------------------------+-----------------+
| Gold            |  2.750,00 € |     500,00 € |  3.025,00 € |   275,00 € |     500,00 € |            10,00% |              0,00 € |                    0,00% |          16,53% |
+-----------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+------------+--------------+-------------------+---------------------+--------------------------+-----------------+
| Platinum        | 12.500,00 € |     500,00 € | 13.750,00 € | 1.255,00 € |   1.000,00 € |            10,00% |            500,00 € |                  100,00% |           7,27% |
+-----------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+------------+--------------+-------------------+---------------------+--------------------------+-----------------+
| Academic Bronze |    250,00 € |     250,00 € |    275,00 € | n/a        |     250,00 € |            10,00% |              0,00 € |                    0,00% |          90,91% |
+-----------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+------------+--------------+-------------------+---------------------+--------------------------+-----------------+
| Academic Silver |    500,00 € |     250,00 € |    550,00 € | n/a        |     250,00 € |            10,00% |              0,00 € |                    0,00% |          45,45% |
+-----------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+------------+--------------+-------------------+---------------------+--------------------------+-----------------+
| Academic Gold   |  1.000,00 € |     250,00 € |  1.100,00 € | n/a        |     250,00 € |            10,00% |              0,00 € |                    0,00% |          22,73% |
+-----------------+-------------+--------------+-------------+------------+--------------+-------------------+---------------------+--------------------------+-----------------+

Comments
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