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title: 'Membership'
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date: 2021-07-17
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type: join
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layout: single
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intro:
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subtitle: Welcome to the era of Open Computing!
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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.
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p-3: Join us and see how open technical collaboration along with the support of many OpenPOWER programs can help drive your business forward.
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teaser:
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title: Why Join?
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options:
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- option: Accelerate technical development of your own POWER based products
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- option: Contribute technical resource, best practices, and code to help guide and influence OpenPOWER deliverables
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- option: Increase visibility as OpenPOWER amplifies member success across the industry
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- option: Build a partner network as an active member within the OpenPOWER community
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- option: Showcase your OpenPOWER products, services, training, and resources on OpenPOWER Ready
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membership-levels:
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title: Membership Levels
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subtitle: The OpenPOWER Foundation is a 501c6 not-for-profit entity with a Board of Directors and a Technical Steering Committee.
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text: OpenPOWER offers a tiered membership of Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Associate/Academic memberships
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options:
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- 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.
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- option: The Technical Steering Committee is formed from the Work Group Leads from the core projects and one representative designated by each Platinum member.
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features:
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- feature: Annual fee and dedicated full-time equivalent (FTEs) – verification of committed number of FTEs on honor system
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- feature: Contributors, committers, Work Group leads and project leads influence Technical Steering Committee
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- feature: Associate/Academic level is not available to corporations
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image-table:
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image: thumb-8.jpg
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alt: Membership Levels Table
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membership-benefits:
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title: Membership Benefits
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image-table:
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image: thumb-9.jpg
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alt: Membership Benefits Table
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become-member:
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title: Become a Member
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options:
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title: Individual membership
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text: Individual membership
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cta_url: 'https://enrollment.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/?individual&project=openpowerfoundation'
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cta_text: Join
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image: thumb-7.jpg
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title: Corporate membership
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text: Corporate membership
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cta_url: 'https://enrollment.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/?project=openpowerfoundation'
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cta_text: Join
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image: thumb-7-1.jpg
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draft: false
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---
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| Membership Level | Annual Fee | Technical Steering Committee | Board of Directors |
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|----------------------|------------|---------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
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| Platinum | $100k | 1 voting participant per member | 1 voting participant per member |
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| Gold | $60k | If a WG lead | 1 elected voting participant per three gold member level |
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| Silver | $20k | If a WG lead | 1 elected voting participant for all silver members |
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| Associate / Academic | $0 | If a WG lead | 1 elected non-voting observer for all associate/acedemic members |
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