Thank you for your interest in sponsoring ArrayFire.

Below you will find more information about ArrayFire and details on the many opportunities to engage with the global ArrayFire open-source community through annual sponsorship.

We hope your company will join the growing number of corporations committed to the continued success of open-source software and the work of ArrayFire on its mission.

ArrayFire recognizes corporate use of, and participation in, open source development and communities is vital to overall success. The ArrayFire Sponsorship Program provides an open and transparent mechanism to allow corporations and individuals to show support for open-source software, its development, and the activities of the ArrayFire community.

Corporate participation enables ArrayFire to:

• raise awareness, across industries and sectors, as to the benefits of ArrayFire development and community building,
• educate those new to heterogeneous computing in the principles and practices that foster authentic participation and, thus, the most significant returns,
• advocate for best practices and standards to ensure a community-driven approach that enables the most outstanding level of collaboration and, thus, contributions,
• increase the diversity of stakeholders and viewpoints within the ArrayFire community and the broader open-source community.

Through ArrayFire's work, the entire open-source software community benefits, including:

• Developers & End-Users

  • Independent developers, as well as those working on open source within corporations.
  • End-users seeking information on finding and using ArrayFire and child projects building atop the arrays, like Facebook’s Flashlight.
  • Members of the press.

• Government Agencies, Education & Non-profits

  • Procurement offices assessing feasibility/adoption of fast technical computing.
  • Department managers seeking best practices in technical computing.
  • IP portfolio managers building software with reliable technical computing building blocks or taking in contributions from the same.
  • Business analysts in search of technical computing use cases or case studies.
  • Government agencies, educational institutions, & non-profit organizations.

• Corporations & Business

  • Companies with licensing questions and addressing issues of stewardship.
  • Project/product managers need the best technical computing practices, resources, and knowledge sharing.
  • Legal staff and contract managers using and maintaining open-source technical computing software.
  • HR and other administrative staff working on merging traditional policy and practice with open-source models of development and operation.

• Produce featured content and drive community engagement via ArrayFire.com and ArrayFire.org to share your company’s success in and with open-source software development, practices, and projects, including an organizational biography detailing your company’s involvement with open source, video interviews of key company contributors (two/year), historical timelines highlighting open source accomplishments (one/year, open source-specific), articles detailing related work of your choice (two/year), dedicated case studies (three/year: technology, community, other), blog posts (four/year at ArrayFire.com),
• Invitation to your company’s representatives to join ArrayFire as featured speakers, presenters, and panelists in conjunction with ArrayFire maintainers,
• Guest speaking/lecturer in ArrayFire training courses offered within Institutions of Higher Education.
• Promote your company’s events, activities, and related promotions (products and services, social activities, professional development, product trainings, etc.) to the ArrayFire community,
• Work with your team to develop other opportunities that promote technical computing software, development, and communities as they arise.

• Same as above, modified by:
  • Video interviews (one/year)
  • Historical timelines (one/year, open source-specific)
  • Articles (one/year)
  • Case studies (one/year: technology)
  • Blog posts (two/year)

• Same as above, modified by:
• No video interviews
• No historical timelines
• No articles
• Case studies (one/year: technology)
• Blog posts (one/year)

• Acknowledge your company--including branding and link(s) on all ArrayFire publications, communications, promotions, etc., where corporate sponsorship is acknowledged, including the ArrayFire website,
• Acknowledge your company's sponsorship in all marketing and promotion efforts, including all events the ArrayFire participates in (30+ conferences, meet-ups, etc. per year),
• Share news and activities related to your company's work in open source that aligns with the ArrayFire mission via our social media channels (e.g., ~10K Twitter followers),
• Provide your company partnership opportunities to participate in various ArrayFire-organized activities and events, e.g., blog posts, press, webinars, meet-ups, conference sessions/booths, presentations, etc.
• Provide company staff and teams contacts and networking opportunities with industry leaders and legal experts. ArrayFire is well connected to top technical computing experts worldwide in all vertical markets, e.g., defense, healthcare, finance, energy, entertainment, etc.

Thank you again for your support of ArrayFire. It is only through the generous contributions of organizations like yours that ArrayFire can continue our vital work to provide an excellent technical computing platform that continually improves, championing software freedom in society and striving for genuinely innovative and cooperative experiences.

(Text inspiration from the Open Source Initiative.)