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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Kate,<br>
      <br>
      It is a good sign that you did the research. <br>
      <br>
      By the way, I remember as a successful businessman told us, his
      employees, to read a book on a project's subject. He even asked
      questions to verify that a certain book was actually read. Come to
      think about it, probably, it is a good time to read a book,
      something like:<br>
      <br>
      "Managing Foundations and Charitable Trusts: Essential Knowledge,
      Tools, and Techniques for Donors and Advisors" [1]<br>
      <br>
      Or maybe there is another good book on this topic? Perhaps,
      someone can advise me a good book?<br>
      <br>
      [1]
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.amazon.com/Managing-Foundations-Charitable-Trusts-Techniques/dp/1118038266">http://www.amazon.com/Managing-Foundations-Charitable-Trusts-Techniques/dp/1118038266</a><br>
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      brgds<br>
      Oleksiy<br>
      <br>
      <br>
      On 27/04/16 20:52, Kate Chapman wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Hi All,
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        <div>In case there was any confusion I did do research before
          coming up with these tiers. I talked to companies using OSM,
          talked to board members at other foundations as well as looked
          at existing programs. </div>
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        <div>In addition to the ones that were already mentioned above I
          also investigated:</div>
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        <div>* Apache Foundation: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html">http://www.apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html</a> </div>
        <div>* Gnome Foundation Advisory Board: <a
            moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="https://wiki.gnome.org/AdvisoryBoard"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.gnome.org/AdvisoryBoard">https://wiki.gnome.org/AdvisoryBoard</a></a></div>
        <div>* Python Foundation: <span style="text-decoration:underline;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.python.org/psf/members/" style="text-decoration:none">https://www.python.org/psf/members/</a></span></div>
        <div>* Django Foundation: <span style="text-decoration:underline;font-size:14.6667px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.djangoproject.com/foundation/corporate-membership/" style="text-decoration:none">https://www.djangoproject.com/foundation/corporate-membership/</a></span></div>
        <div>* OpenStack Foundation: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="https://www.openstack.org/join/">https://www.openstack.org/join/</a></div>
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        <div>-Kate</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:44 AM,
          Oleksiy Muzalyev <span dir="ltr"><<a
              moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:oleksiy.muzalyev@bluewin.ch" target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:oleksiy.muzalyev@bluewin.ch">oleksiy.muzalyev@bluewin.ch</a></a>></span>
          wrote:<br>
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            .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dr. Moira
            Gunn [1] in one of her interviews recalls that when she came
            to the NASA among other young scientists, they were told not
            to invent anything themselves, and instead to search for
            existing knowledge blocks, and only if while implementing
            theseblocks they encountered a slight gap, only then they
            could try to invent something original. So it is quite
            common methodology to research first what was done already
            and what works.<br>
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            [1] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="http://www.technation.com/pages/GunnBio.html"
              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.technation.com/pages/GunnBio.html</a><br>
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            brgds<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
                Oleksiy</font></span><span class="im HOEnZb"><br>
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              On 27/04/16 20:10, Jonathan Witcoski wrote:<br>
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                I took a look at other opensource project corporate
                benefits...<br>
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                <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="https://jquery.org/join/" rel="noreferrer"
                  target="_blank">https://jquery.org/join/</a><br>
                <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship"
                  rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship</a><br>
                <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="https://www.joomla.org/sponsor.html#packages"
                  rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.joomla.org/sponsor.html#packages</a><br>
                <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="https://assoc.drupal.org/supporting-partners"
                  rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://assoc.drupal.org/supporting-partners</a><br>
                <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/join/corporate"
                  rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/join/corporate</a><br>
                <br>
                They all offer:<br>
                Joint Press Releases<br>
                Joint Blog posts<br>
                Sponsor badge for your Web site<br>
                Invitation to Special Events<br>
                Discounts (several free tickets and early bird pricing
                on all others) on tickets to events<br>
                Discounts with other corporate sponsors (training and
                services)<br>
                Free standard listing on Drupal Jobs<br>
                <br>
                None are offering:<br>
                Legal access to OSMF General Counsel<br>
                or<br>
                Yearly call with board members<br>
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