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Membership Benefits

Collaborations of every size benefit from our turnkey approach with an established infrastructure, policies and procedures that allows a fast start-up and guides projects to full operation. Our services maximize the effectiveness of volunteer efforts, enabling collaborations to focus on strategic and technical deliverables.

Key Benefits

Neutral Forum

Ability to collaborate in a truly neutral playing field with anti-trust protections and full independence from any particular open-source community, structure or repository.

Scalable, A-la-carte Services

Access to scalable, a-la-carte management services including inclusion in CollabForum marketing activities, public projects featured on the CollabForum website, financial administration, and coverage under CollabForum insurance policies.

CollabForum Portal

Unlimited use of a customizable, fully integrated collaboration portal and tools including document repository and collaboration workspace, calendar and balloting, email lists and project specific members-only websites.

Program Management

Standardized program and project management and other support services included.

Project Support

Ability to contract optional project-specific support and resources including open source project infrastructure (code repositories, code checkers, etc.) and other resources such as project event management, marketing and technical writers.

Flexible

Maximum flexibility to fine-tune collaborations to specific goals, support and/or resource needs.

Low-cost

The CollabForum offers one of the lowest fee structure options available in comparison to other project-based approaches.

Fees

The CollabForum offers a standard membership and two participation options with a very low fee structure.

* Required to participate in the CollabForum