Actually the correct term used was 'Associated Sponsorship' https://www.spi-inc.org/meetings/logs/2013/2013-06-13-log.txt See this bit as 21:27 - 21:27 #SPI: < Noodles> We have an outstanding mail from Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (http://smc.org.in) about becoming an associated project. 21:27 #SPI: < Noodles> I don't know anything about them to be honest. 21:27 #SPI: < Noodles> But I'll try to reply in the next few days as it's been sitting around on board@ for a while now.