Certified DuraSpace Partners are organizations that have demonstrated expertise and a significant community effort to support DuraSpace open technologies through community leadership, in-kind contributions, and financial support.
Partners contribute a minimum of 250 hours of in-kind community contribution annually as well as a percentage of gross annual revenue.
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Use of the Certified DuraSpace Partner logo and permission to promote business using the distinctiondistinction
A seat on the project leadership committee to participate in discussions about priorities and strategic direction of the software and community (if desired/available)
Detailed and prominent listing on the DuraSpace website and project specific websites
Working with DuraSpace on marketing and outreach efforts to promote services
DuraSpace promotion of individual partners and of the group of Partners (communications highlighting community contributions, new initiatives, news and events) to our communications network of more than 7,000 people
Support in organizing events which showcase services
Prospecting new business and referring leads to individual partners based on qualifying criteria or to the Partner group
Certificates of Participation and Letters of Support for formal procurement requirements (RFPs, etc.)
An invitation to attend the annual DuraSpace Members Summit (2 seats)
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Complete the application form online: http://bit.ly/2AetaTK or email responses to info@duraspace.org with the subject line “Certified DuraSpace Partner Program”
We will contact you for an interview
We may request more details about your organization. All information will be held in the strictest confidence.
We will request two client references per year. They will be asked the following questions:
Can you describe the work that was done?
What was your satisfaction with that work?
What was the level of professionalism and customer service shown?
Please feel free to add any other observations you might wish to share
After our evaluation we will notify you of the results. Please be patient as this may take some time