TSC Vote: StackStorm Partnership Program

[arm4b]

Following almost 1 year of discussions, more than 6 TSC Meetings, consultations with the Partners, discussions with the LF, and additional approval from the LF Legal I'd like to invite @StackStorm/tsc to vote on approving the StackStorm Partnership program.

The plan:

• 1 Terms and conditions of the Partnership Program are described at https://stackstorm.com/partners-program/
• 2 List of the Partners, each tagged with several categories, as shown and designed on the https://stackstorm.com/partners/
  • 2.1 We'll generate a randomized order for the Partners list for the fair visibility distribution (per @raviorch Orchestral feedback)
• 3 We'll place a traffic stats counter at the Partner page to indicate the number of hits/visits page is getting for the partner's page traffic indicator (per @punkrokk feedback)
• 4 We'll create a new section linking to the Parners page from the main StackSorm.com website
  • 4.1 New block "Supported by the Partners" will be placed before the "Used by Your Peers" and would include the Partners logos + Partners page link
• 5 To be listed on the page, Partners will have to accept their participation and agreement with the terms as described at https://stackstorm.com/partners-program/ (per @punkrokk initial question about the Legal Agreements and then LF Legal consultation feedback)
• 6 We'll launch and announce the program to Community via Blog Post and channels: Slack, Twitter, Newsletter, LinkedIn

Additional sub-committees, multi-level tiers of the programs and are outside of this scope and could be discussed and progressed in future iterations.

Related Discussions:

• [RFC] How to become a StackStorm Partner? #64
• RFC: StackStorm Partners, Code of Conduct and Economy #51

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@StackStorm/tsc Voting period per Governance is 1 week and needs a majority of votes from the TSC voting pool to approve.

[arm4b]

+1

[Kami]

I'll abstain at this point (aka +0) since I don't think I added much of value to those discussions.

[amanda11]

Before voting, some grammar points on: https://stackstorm.com/partners-program/

• "We welcome everyone to help and support the project is it maintenance" - not sure about the "is it ...", should it be "be it"
• The link to policies at bottom seems a bit on its own, just after the Contact Us

The removal/addition of companies to partners page "StackStorm or the partner may choose to end the partnership at any time". Does "StackStorm" here have a defined meaning, is this by majority vote of StackStorm TSC?

Interested in discussing if indemnification clause is needed at TSC meeting.

[raviorch]

Agreed; before voting IMHO, we need to set some ground rules for the partners page: As of today there is no link to the partners page from the main page http://stackstorm.com, need to first add that On the partner landing page have a list of current partners and also have a “How To Become A Partner” section In the “How To Become A Partner” page also highlight what the project will give back to the partner more clearly as the current 1 paragraph is not very descriptive The contributions should be categorized as per the function, right now in the proposed page it is very ambiguous I would also like to ask the team to consider the badge system I proposed, if not being adopted, propose a mechanism that would provide differentiation between partners based on the contributions Only after these are addressed is the Partner Page agenda item is ready to vote. Regds Ravi

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Before voting, some grammar points on: https://stackstorm.com/partners-program/ "We welcome everyone to help and support the project is it maintenance" - not sure about the "is it ...", should it be "be it" The link to policies at bottom seems a bit on its own, just after the Contact Us The removal/addition of companies to partners page "StackStorm or the partner may choose to end the partnership at any time". Does "StackStorm" here have a defined meaning, is this by majority vote of StackStorm TSC? Interested in discussing if indemnification clause is needed at TSC meeting. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#72 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AQHYO6QBEEOD73NEUOIYZJ3THMVDZANCNFSM42JHUTXQ>.

[blag]

It sounds like we need to take this discussion to a subcommittee.

@raviorch Can you also officially create your own proposal of exactly what you think the partners program should look like?

[raviorch]

Can absolutely do it, will work with the team to create a subcommittee and move forward. Ravi ------ Original Message ------ From: "blag" ***@***.***> To: "StackStorm/discussions" ***@***.***> Cc: "raviorch" ***@***.***>; "Mention" ***@***.***> Sent: 4/6/2021 9:32:23 AM Subject: Re: [StackStorm/discussions] TSC Vote: StackStorm Partnership Program (#72)

It sounds like we need to take this discussion to a subcommittee.

***@***.*** <https://github.com/raviorch> Can you also officially create

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your own proposal of exactly what you think the partners program should look like? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#72 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AQHYO6URKUH7LGIS77JM4PLTHMZRPANCNFSM42JHUTXQ>.

[punkrokk]

I also believe we need to have a subcommittee to flush this out.

[mickmcgrath13]

Subcommitte issue started here:
#73

[arm4b]

Closing as not approved by the TSC after 7 days of the voting period.

TSC Meeting Decision (#71) was to continue the discussion in #73. Partners sub-committee has to re-iterate on the program and come up with a proposal for the next (May) TSC Meeting.
Another Discussion should be created for the StackStorm TSC to Vote.