Project Benefits by Stage

Open Mainframe Project hosted projects can leverage the world-class Linux Foundation staff to help drive further awareness and support of their projects. Project needs tend to be different based upon the project’s maturity, and the Open Mainframe Project aims to ensure that the benefits are tailored to those needs appropriate for its maturity.

Open Mainframe Project is always open to feedback on the benefits provided feel free to file an issue to share any feedback.

Project Benefits matrix

Benefits	Sandbox	Incubation	Active	Working Group
Marketing and Communications
Inclusion in OMP Landscape ( https://l.openmainframeproject.org )	Included	Included	Included	Included
Logo Design	N/A	Included	Included	Included
Credly badges to recognize committers and other key individuals	N/A	Included	Included	Included
Project swag available in OMP Store ( https://store.openaminframeproject.org )	N/A	Stickers	Stickers, T-shirt, other items by request	N/A
Public Messaging	Listed in TAC repo only	Listed second	First listing / Top billing	Listed with other working groups
Landing Page on OMP Website	N/A	Included	Included	Included
Events - Demo Space in OMP booth	N/A	Booth demo space as available	Highest priority booth demo space.	Booth demo space as available
Project Lifecycle Announcements	N/A	Tweet on announcement day. No social card. Blog or part of a larger Press Release	Tweet on announcement day, including social card Press Release announcement Blog Post (project to include the content) An embargoed pitch of the Press Release and top features to the media. Requests for interviews go to the project team.	Tweet on announcement day. No social card. Blog or part of a larger Press Release
Technical Release Amplification - Minor Release	N/A	Tweet on announcement day	Tweet on announcement day Blog post announcement on openmainframeproject.org either written by OMP PR with assistance by the project, re-posting of project’s own blog post, or a blog post written exclusively for openmainframeproject.org by the project team	Tweet on announcement day
Technical Release Amplification - Major Release	N/A	Tweet on announcement day Press Release inclusion (combined with other news items e.g. new Members)	Tweet on announcement day Press Release inclusion (combined with other news items e.g. new Members) Blog post announcement on openmainframeproject.org either written by OMP PR with assistance by the project, re-posting of project’s own blog post, or a blog post written exclusively for openmainframeproject.org by the project team Embargoed or day-of pitch of the release and top features to the media as relevant. Requests for interviews go to the project team for interviews Project Webinar, up to a max of 2 per year (specific to the Technical Release)	Tweet on announcement day Press Release inclusion (combined with other news items e.g. new Members)
Project Overview Webinars	N/A	N/A	Quarterly	Case-by-case
Blogs	Guest Blog if requested	Quarterly	Monthly	Quarterly
IT and CI/CD
Communications channels (Slack, Mailing Lists, Forums	Included	Included	Included	Included
CI Environment	Included	Included	Included	N/A
SonarCloud	Included	Included	Included	N/A
LF Release Engineering	N/A	Self support	Full support	N/A
Governance/Practices/Strategy
New Project Onboarding support	Self-service	Included	If accepted at Active Stage	Included
Best Practices Tools and Guidance	Self-service	Included	Included	Included
License scanning	Prior to Incubation proposal	Initial scan and quarterly scans	Scans for significant code contributions and quarterly scans	N/A
Ongoing project support	N/A	N/A	Active TSC support	N/A
Check-in/strategy calls	N/A	Yearly	At least twice yearly	Yearly
Ability to meet and present to Governing Board and Marketing Committee	N/A	To Governing Board, after acceptance into incubation	At least yearly to Governing Board and as needed to the Marketing Committee	To Governing Board, after acceptance into incubation
Budget
Project Specific requests for the upcoming year	N/A	Case-by-case	Project Specific budget line item consideration	Case-by-case
Meetups	N/A	Up to $250/meetup	Up to $250/meetup	Up to $250/meetup
Training and Ecosystem
Access to Mentorship Program	Included	Included	Included	Included
EdX Introductory Course	N/A	Case-by-case	$10,000 for edX course	Case-by-case
Conformance Program	N/A	N/A	Included	N/A