Donations are the quickest and easiest way to financially support the open-source initiative. Donations are given without return consideration and they significantly contribute to the adequate staffing required to fulfill our open-source missions. Since the SOFA Consortium is administratively hosted by the Inria Foundation, a non-profit organization, donations for SOFA are tax-deductible (66%) in France and in the US.
To benefit from specific privileges around SOFA, we invite you to become a member of the SOFA Consortium. Two levels of membership are currently available:
Technical Member
5,000€* per year
- Permanent member of
the Scientific & Technical Committee - Vote the roadmap
- Vote the integration
of sensitive pull-requests - Propose new development axes
for the roadmap - Validate the GitHub reviewer team
Strategic Partner
20,000€* per year
- Permanent member of
the Executive Committee - All privileges of Technical Member
- Define priority missions
of the Consortium staff - Privileged communication
and promotion policy - Influence all strategic questions
* Membership fees are given excluding VAT.
For non-European partners, French VAT must be applied whether partners are not subject to VAT in their country.