<div dir="ltr">Hi All,<div><br></div><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><div><br></div><div>In addition to the ones that were already mentioned above I also investigated:</div><div><br></div><div>* Apache Foundation: <a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html">http://www.apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html</a> </div><div>* Gnome Foundation Advisory Board: <a href="https://wiki.gnome.org/AdvisoryBoard">https://wiki.gnome.org/AdvisoryBoard</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 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 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 href="https://www.openstack.org/join/">https://www.openstack.org/join/</a></div><div><br></div><div>-Kate</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Oleksiy Muzalyev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oleksiy.muzalyev@bluewin.ch" target="_blank">oleksiy.muzalyev@bluewin.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .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 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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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 href="https://jquery.org/join/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://jquery.org/join/</a><br>
<a href="http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.osgeo.org/sponsorship</a><br>
<a href="https://www.joomla.org/sponsor.html#packages" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.joomla.org/sponsor.html#packages</a><br>
<a href="https://assoc.drupal.org/supporting-partners" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://assoc.drupal.org/supporting-partners</a><br>
<a href="http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/join/corporate" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/join/corporate</a><br>
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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>
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None are offering:<br>
Legal access to OSMF General Counsel<br>
or<br>
Yearly call with board members<br>
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