A Project is the collaboration formed under the Joint Development Foundation or its Joint Development Foundation Projects, LLC subsidiary. Each Project has its own independent governance, identity, and scope of work.
What can a JDF Project do?
Projects operating under the Joint Development Foundation’s legal umbrella enjoy numerous benefits, including existing legal agreements, choice of intellectual property policies, non-profit status, and corporate structure. This allows projects to establish themselves more quickly and easily, collect funds, issue press releases, develop liaison relationships, and hold copyrights, all without the need for custom agreements and new corporate organizations.
Projects can:
- Use JDF’s template agreements and policies for exclusion notices, MoUs, operational procedures, and more.
- Establish one or more technical Working Groups or committees to advance work.
- Choose from multiple intellectual property policy licensing options that support co-development of source code, standards, data and other deliverables.
- Invite members and partners from all over the world to join the effort, and advance work to other SDOs for even more consensus building.
- Optionally raise funds for ecosystem-building activities, such as marketing, events, development, certification and training.
- Access a team of legal and operational experts in the field of standardization and open source who can help answer questions or connect the project to the broader JDF network.