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@Jeremiah @w3c The W3C is only interested in large corporations as members. This is clear from their fees, which deliberately exclude small businesses from participating.
My company has been a member of Nominet and RIPE for years (memberships that come with real benefits in terms of Internet resources), but there's no way in hell we could justify a membership of W3C. Why would we want to subsidise Google?
Let's compare:
Nominet: £500 join, £100/yr
RIPE: 1000€ join, ~1400€/yr
W3C: 7800€/yr
Nominet essentially costs us nothing, as we get a discount on .uk domains.
RIPE gives us an ASN number and IP addresses we can route.
Both these orgs give us voting rights and a chance to shape Internet policy.
W3C membership benefits (from the website):
- Participate in any group
- Shape web technology
- Propose new technology
- Standardize your ideas
- Meet, interact with leaders
@dentangle @Jeremiah@alpaca.gold Btw, here's one person being actively excluded by @w3c 's fees!
I appreciate what they do & am keen to chip in, but there's no way I can justify paying that much!
@alcinnz @dentangle @w3c lol @ the low income country non-profit fees. It being in EUR is the cherry on top of the out-of-touch-white people cherry.
@unexpectedteapot @dentangle @w3c Its much better now...