Thursday, January 31, 2019

Membership Fee Changes

The Unicode Consortium is announcing changes to membership fees and categories. These changes include both the addition of a new membership category as well as a periodic adjustment of membership fees for inflation. These fee changes put the Consortium in a stronger position to continue its mission to enable people around the world to use computers in any language by providing freely-available specifications and data. Note also that a new category for Supporting, non-profit has been created. All other existing non-profit and individual memberships will have no change.

As of June 1, 2019, the annual membership fee will change as described in the following table:

Membership Levels Current Fee New Fee
Full $18,000 $21,000
Institutional, governmental $12,000 $14,000
Supporting, for-profit organization $7,500 $8,750
Supporting, non-profit organization N/A $5,000
Associate, for-profit organization $2,500 $2,900

Existing members may renew their membership early at the current fee if they renew by May 31, 2019.

The Consortium continues to offer a multi-year discount option for all membership levels, when renewal fees are paid in advance:
  • 10 years, 20% discount
  • 5 years, 10% discount
  • 3 years, 6% discount
The Consortium also offers lifetime memberships to individual members. For further information please contact the Unicode office.


Adopt-a-Character

Over 130,000 characters are available for adoption, to help the Unicode Consortium’s work on digitally disadvantaged languages.

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