TCTF Membership
Supported by Our Member Organizations, The Cometbid Technology Foundation Provides the Community With Intellectual Property, Mentorship, Marketing, Event and IT Services.
Why become a Member of TCTF Community?
Take an active role in supporting sustainable, commercializable open source technologies that benefit the global technology community and drive innovation forward.
Participate in a thriving developer community
and provide contributions to TCTF projects and Industry Collaborations.
Protect your strategic investments
Code is one of your most important assets. Let us help support and advance the critical technologies your business relies upon for long-term success.
Share costs and innovation
while focusing resources on rapidly building differentiated features that customers value most.
Benefit from strong governance
Solid intellectual property management, and inclusive open source community development.
Prosper by sharing
Your experience and best practices on open source with industry peers.
Promote accomplishments
and good corporate citizenship through contributions to projects.
Key Services of the TCTF Community
Development Process
The TCTF community has a well-earned reputation for providing high-quality software, reliably and predictably. The Cometbid Foundation provides services and support to help projects consistently achieve their goals. Our staff assists new projects in implementing the development process, a set of procedures and best practices that ensure excellence and sustainability.
IP Management
We focus on enabling the use of open source technology in commercial software products and services. All projects are licensed under OSI-approved licenses including the Cometbid Public License (CPL). In addition, the Cometbid Foundation's due diligence process helps to validate the pedigree of the intellectual property contained in our projects, ensuring legal compliance and protecting contributors.
Ecosystem Development and Marketing
The Cometbid Foundation's vendor-neutral marketing programs promote growth and engagement, drive awareness and discoverability of projects and collaborations, and increase the commercial adoption of technologies. The Foundation coordinates and implements a variety of activities, including content creation, press and analyst relations, community conferences and events, advertising, social media management, and other programs to promote the entire TCTF community and increase engagement.
IT Infrastructure
The Cometbid Foundation provides vendor-neutral, reliable and scalable services for our technology developers and users. IT infrastructure services delivered to the community include source code repositories, build infrastructure, development-oriented mailing lists and newsgroups, a downloads site, and project and working group websites.
