Grant us a bit of your time
If SOFA is a useful tool in your everyday work, you can make a difference for the open-source project in many different ways: add SOFA in your project proposal, contribute, participate to our events, cite us and communicate on social media!
Financial support
Financial support is obviously among the most significant ways to demonstrate your interest in the open-source project. You can fund SOFA either by becoming a SOFA Consortium member or by making a donation. Such a financial support directly impacts the engineering power dedicated to SOFA.
Two levels of membership are currently available with specific associated privileges:
Technical Member
- 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
- 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.
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.
