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Membership 2021-07-17 join single
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Welcome to the era of Open Computing!
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.
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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Why Join?
Accelerate technical development of your own POWER based products
Contribute technical resource, best practices, and code to help guide and influence OpenPOWER deliverables
Increase visibility as OpenPOWER amplifies member success across the industry
Build a partner network as an active member within the OpenPOWER community
Showcase your OpenPOWER products, services, training, and resources on OpenPOWER Ready
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Membership Levels The OpenPOWER Foundation is a 501c6 not-for-profit entity with a Board of Directors and a Technical Steering Committee. OpenPOWER offers a tiered membership of Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Associate/Academic memberships
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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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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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Annual fee and dedicated full-time equivalent (FTEs) verification of committed number of FTEs on honor system
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Contributors, committers, Work Group leads and project leads influence Technical Steering Committee
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Associate/Academic level is not available to corporations
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Membership Benefits
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Become a Member
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Individual membership Individual membership https://enrollment.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/?individual&project=openpowerfoundation Join thumb-7.jpg
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Corporate membership Corporate membership https://enrollment.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/?project=openpowerfoundation Join 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