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title: 'Membership' date: 2021-07-17 type: join layout: single intro: subtitle: Welcome to the era of Open Computing! p-2: The OpenPOWER Foundation is a non-profit organization supporting the free and open RISC instruction set architecture and extensions. We enable open community collaboration, technology advancements in the OpenPOWER ecosystem, and visibility of OpenPOWER successes. p-3: Join us and see how open technical collaboration along with the support of many OpenPOWER programs can help drive your business forward. teaser: title: Why Join? options: - option: Accelerate technical development of your own POWER based products - option: Contribute technical resource, best practices, and code to help guide and influence OpenPOWER deliverables - option: Increase visibility as OpenPOWER amplifies member success across the industry - option: Build a partner network as an active member within the OpenPOWER community - option: Showcase your OpenPOWER products, services, training, and resources on OpenPOWER Ready membership-levels: title: Membership Levels subtitle: The OpenPOWER Foundation is a 501c6 not-for-profit entity with a Board of Directors and a Technical Steering Committee. text: OpenPOWER offers a tiered membership of Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Associate/Academic memberships options:
- option: Membership levels provide either a default Board of Director position (Platinum) or an opportunity to be elected to the Board (Gold, Silver, and Associate/Academic members). The Bylaws detail additional governance by the Board including maximum seats, terms, etc. - option: The Technical Steering Committee is formed from the Work Group Leads from the core projects and one representative designated by each Platinum member. features: - feature: Annual fee and dedicated full-time equivalent (FTEs) – verification of committed number of FTEs on honor system - feature: Contributors, committers, Work Group leads and project leads influence Technical Steering Committee - feature: Associate/Academic level is not available to corporations image-table: image: thumb-8.jpg alt: Membership Levels Table membership-benefits: title: Membership Benefits image-table: image: thumb-9.jpg alt: Membership Benefits Table become-member: title: Become a Member options:

 title: Individual membership
 text: Individual membership
 cta_url: 'https://enrollment.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/?individual&project=openpowerfoundation'
 cta_text: Join
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• title: Corporate membership text: Corporate membership cta_url: 'https://enrollment.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/?project=openpowerfoundation' cta_text: Join image: thumb-7-1.jpg

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Membership Level	Annual Fee	Technical Steering Committee	Board of Directors
Platinum	$100k	1 voting participant per member	1 voting participant per member
Gold	$60k	If a WG lead	1 elected voting participant per three gold member level
Silver	$20k	If a WG lead	1 elected voting participant for all silver members
Associate / Academic	$0	If a WG lead	1 elected non-voting observer for all associate/acedemic members