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One of the main benefits of the partner program is to ensure that our businesses can rely on a well-supported and maintained project.
4-1) Additionally, being a partner should also bring the following benefits: (also ranked voting - we would focus on or implement the first few or half?)
Ability to advertise being an “Open edX Partner” to clients and publicly
Advertised as an Open edX Partner on the Open edX website
Leads forwarded from the requests sent on the Open edX website, or when talking with stakeholders from different organizations
Transparency report for lead distribution, sharing aggregated numbers of leads allocated per region or vendor.
Leads allocated with an area-specific system, ensuring contributors in various regions receive equitable opportunities (defined transparently)
Leads allocated by categories, such as pricing structure, company size, market size, or geographic focus (defined transparently)
Renewed focus on the referral program to increase conversion rates and address market-specific challenges, such as pricing or regional demand disparities.
Being consulted on decisions that affect the partners, before they are taken, by convening the present assembly of Open edX partners (and/or a shared mailing-list, depending on the importance of the decision).
Priority access to beta features, roadmap discussions, or technical support to give them a competitive edge in their service offerings
Opportunities to join collaborative marketing campaigns and being included in Open edX's global outreach efforts, to help gain visibility and leads
Exclusive training resources for their teams, helping them stay up-to-date with Open edX features and best practices.
More visibility into Axim’s partnerships with other organizations, to encourage more companies to get involved and work together
Provide more transparency regarding decisions being taken internally at Axim, by holding all discussions related to Open edX publicly, or at least open to Open edX partners.
A plan to remove most of the edX-specific code and especially reduce the MFE maintenance burden to make the platform economical to maintain
To foster an ecosystem of smaller companies, their contributions would be highlighted in the official Open edX marketing channels, including the blog, YouTube channel, etc.
4-2) Should partners contributing above the baseline (e.g., 15% or 20%) qualify for additional benefits? (yes/no answer)
4-3) If partners contributing above the baseline were to qualify for additional benefits, what should those benefits be? (ranked voting)
Priority access to beta features or roadmap discussions
Increased visibility on the Open edX website or marketing materials
Additional recognition in the community
Access to large deal-sized customer contracts
Part 5 - Marketing
For the Open edX product and community to thrive, we have to build visibility on the market for Open edX platform. It’s important for growing, building credibility and ensuring that Open edX platform remains competitive. There is no way to do it without partners, so we would establish a consistent amount of promotion-related activities. (The following could be yes/no votes:)
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