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Become a POSSEE sponsor and support a student’s education and an open source project at the same time.
Sponsor the POSSEE Program
Sponsor or contribute to a POSSEE Pod
✓ Community Impact: You will be providing educationally aligned jobs to students in nations with emerging economies that focus on growing and sustaining open source communities
✓ Brand Visibility and Recognition
– Listed as a sponsor on our website
– Improved good-will perception
✓ An opportunity to attend POSSEE Pod meeting of your choice once a week
✓ Ability to attend Program Sponsor meeting once a month to influence the program
✓ Access to talent across all projects as it matures (behind pod sponsors and premier sponsors)
✓ We would welcome 10 Level 1 sponsors per year
✓ Sponsorship could be in kind and given in things like infrastructure credits (AWS, Google, etc.) or in time from project managers or mentors.
✓ Community Impact: You will provide educationally aligned jobs to students in nations with emerging economies that focus on growing and sustaining open source communities
✓ Brand Visibility and Recognition
– Listed as a premier sponsor on our website (and on every pod)
– Improved good-will perception
– Opportunity to promote brand with top students
– We will prepare joint blog-post with you
– We will include you in a blog post
– We will give you a shout out over social media
✓ Access to talent as it matures across all pods (pod sponsors have first right to students on that pod).
✓ An opportunity to attend any POSSEE Pod weekly meetings and receive updates on projects
✓ A seat at weekly POSSEE meetings where Program progress is decided and Pod promotion is decided.
✓ We would welcome 4 Level 1 sponsors per year
✓ Community Impact: You will provide educationally aligned jobs to students in nations with emerging economies that focus on growing and sustaining open source communities
✓ Brand Visibility and Recognition
– Promoted alongside the pod on our website as “sponsored-by”
✓ Community Impact: You will provide educationally aligned jobs to students in nations with emerging economies that focus on growing and sustaining open source communities
✓ Brand Visibility and Recognition
– Listed as a pod sponsor on our website
– Promoted alongside the pod on website, social media, and wherever the pod is promoted.
– Improved good-will perception
✓ You can define what the POD works on as long as it leads to open-source contributions.
✓ An opportunity to attend weekly POSSEE Pod meetings in the pod you sponsor
✓ Opportunity to hire any of the POSSEE interns or student mentors on the Pod you sponsor.
POSSEE promotes equitable education and open source sustainability, fostering technological and social progress across the globe.