Hi, Debian has a partners program (see https://www.debian.org/partners/). It is used to thank and advertise organizations that are supporting or helping us. Examples include: - hosting Debian infrastructure, or providing services used by Debian - providing hardware (or plans to buy hardware at a lower cost) - hosting sprints - supporting the LTS initiative - etc. Unfortunately, due to lack of time of the people that used to be involved, the partners@ team has not been able to keep up with addition requests. I discussed this program with DSA (which is one of the main teams making use of it, to thank hardware/hosting sponsors), and at least Luca Filipozzi is interested in helping getting the partners team back in shape. I would like to build a small group of people in charge of this program. There are ideas floating around about having several levels (platinium/gold/silver/...), and a limited duration for membership. The team would be responsible for setting this up in a way that makes it possible to mix different kinds of contributions using the same rankings/levels. Then, the team would be responsible for evaluating requests for joining the program. There's a number of pending requests that could be used to benchmark the designed ranking. Ideally, this program would be merged with a Debian fundraising team. However, at this point, most of what Debian does in terms of fundraising from large organizations (not individuals) happens through DebConf. I fear that merging this now would be too big, so I think that the plan here should be to: 1) improve the DebConf fundraising processes, and keep in mind that it could be transferred from 'DebConf fundraising' to 'Debian fundraising' 2) revitalize the partners team 3) discuss merging both efforts when they are both in a sufficiently good shape. So, at this point, I'm looking for 2-3 people interested in creating a partners team. - Lucas
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