If you have an interesting project which is related with our technological area of atuation, you can also become a partner of our team, so we can offer you three options of partnership: partnership of divulgation, support and the integral. All of those partnership models, are focused on giving mutual help between you (or your organization) and our team.
As in the support model, as in the integral model, our team is going to give you resources to mainteain, share and offer the proper support about your project(s) to the community. Nevertheless, it is necessary to accomplish some requirements, as related to the project, as related to the divulgation of our partnership to the community, where these requirements are quite different for each option of partnership available. Furthermore, in the divulgation option the conditions are stricted to share with the community the news about our projects.
In all the cases, our team is going to receive the proposal, will analise the conditions and will return a detailed answer about this possible partnership.
Have a look at the minimum requirements for each model of partnership:
Divulgation
This is the simplest partnership option, where the focus is limited to sharing the projects by both parties on their respective websites/social networks.
Requirements:
- You have to own a website with support for disclosures like a blog, newsfeed or banners.
- You have to own a official page in the main social networks (preferably Google+, YouTube and Facebook).
Mutual advantages:
- You are going to have the news related to your projects shared as in our website, as in our social networks, depending on the accord established by our organizations.
- We are going to have the news about our projects shared by you/your organization in your website and/or social networks.
Integral
This option is strictly limited to projects develped by you or your organization, once they are going to be inserted into our projects library and you wil be officially considered part of our team. As part of our team you are going to have access to all the resources that the developers have. The minimum requirements are quite stricts, once your proposal is going to be sent to our team, that will analise your project and informations carefully and will return you a detailed answer as soon as possible.
Have a look at the minimum requirements for the application to this option.
Requirements:
- To own a technological project.
- Be passioned by contribute to the community, not only making the project available, but also the necessary suppor to keep it alive for a long time.
- The project must be reproducible with the steps that you give to the end user, in other words, it have to be like “do it yourself”, if it is not just a software.
- The project must be at least partially usable in the free version, in other words, it have to be in one of those categories: free with open source code, free, partially free* (i.e, you can use it even without paying for it – “lite”) or open hardware.
- Your project will give references to our organization in the “about us” section of your program or project, according to the definitions of our team – you will receive this information with the answer to your proposal, if approved.
- You will assume total responsibility to fix casual problems which may occur to your project and to keep it always updated.
Advantages acquired:
- As a developer, you are going to have access to the tools panel, in order to create and edit the page of your project.
- The news about your project are going to be shared as in our website as at the social networks.
- You will be able and encoraged to create a page and posts about your projects in our support centre (DocWiki).
- You (or your organization) will receive an email account with our domain “[email protected]” to give the proper support to the community.
- Other developers may also help you to improve/mantain your project with support and contributions (if you accept).
* Only applicable to softwares.
Support
This option is stricted on giving support for projects developed by you/your organization, once this option works just as an upgrade for the integral model. The requirements are stricter, once a higher degree of freedom will be given for you/your organization to administrate your project.
Have a look at the minimum requirements for the application to this option.
Requirements:
- To own a technological project.
- Be passioned by contribute to the community, not only making the project available, but also the necessary suppor to keep it alive for a long time.
- The project must be reproducible with the steps that you give to the end user, in other words, it have to be like “do it yourself”, if it is not just a software.
- The project must be at least partially usable in the free version, in other words, it have to be in one of those categories: free with open source code, free, partially free* (i.e, you can use it even without paying for it – “lite”) or open hardware.
- Your project will give references to our organization in the “about us” section of your program or project (including our logo), according to the definitions of our team – you will receive this information with the answer to your proposal, if approved.
- You will assume the responsibility to fix possible problems that may occur with your project and maintain it always updated.
- At least one of your projects must have done part of our integral partnership plan for at least one year.
- You agree that our coordinators are allowed to check the website of your project searching for possible irregularities or abuse in our servers.
Advantages acquired:
- You are going to receive a subdomain to your project/organization, where you will be able to build your site, but you will not be allowed to use all of our support tools.
- As the partnership with you/your organization, as your project will be announced in our website and at our social networks, but you will have to announce the updates by yourself.
- You (or your organization) are going to receive an email with our domain “[email protected]” in order to give the proper support to the community.
* Only applicable to softwares.
To become our partner, you just have to fill the contact form at the “Contact us” page, with the details of your project (nothing much sophisticated, we are going to contact you as soon as possible to clarify the details).