Membership

Whether your organization sells, utilizes, or is considering implementing RDMA-based products, the OpenFabrics Alliance is the vehicle to help you gain a strategic edge in the marketplace and ensure that the technology evolves in a way that best suits your requirements. The OpenFabrics Alliance offers an unmatched opportunity for you to influence the future of RDMA fabric technologies. See what others have to say about the OpenFabrics Alliance.

Benefits of Membership

The OpenFabrics Alliance facilitates working relationships for you and your company with the developers, testers and end users in the RDMA community. Membership in the OFA ensures that you have accurate and timely technical information about OFED, as well as influence over the software stack, interoperability testing and promotional activities.

Membership in the OFA provides:

• Continuous visibility into the development status and release schedule of OpenFabrics Software
• Influence over the standards and functionality included in each new release of the OpenFabrics Software
• Publicity and marketing opportunities in conjunction with alliance activities at tradeshows, conferences and workshops
• Opportunities to certify the interoperability of your company’s products with the OpenFabrics software stack
• Access to industry thought leaders
• Networking opportunities with fellow OFA members
• You can tailor your membership according to one of our membership levels.

UPDATED BYLAWS: Download the OFA Bylaws.

Membership Levels

OFA's membership levels are tailored for levels of interest and involvement:

Promoter Member - $12,500 per year
Benefits: Organizations who join at this level will have a seat on the OFA’s Board of Directors. This allows the ability to strongly influence the outreach, programs, partnerships, conferences and marketing of the OFA and associated RDMA/Advanced Networks ecosystem. Individuals from Promoter Member organizations are allowed to be nominated for Board Officer and Working Group Chair/Co-Chair positions. All the benefits of Adopter and Supporter levels are included in this level.

Adopter Member - $6,250 per year
Benefits: Organizations who join at this level will be eligible to participate in the various testing programs offered by the OFA to its member organizations. They will also be a voting member of any Working Group they participate in. All the benefits of the Supporter level are included in this level.

Supporter Member - $3,125 per year
Benefits: Organizations who join at this level will be included in the wider Annual Member Meeting and will be kept informed of the outreach, programs, partnerships, conferences and marketing efforts as they are being implemented. They will be listed as members on our website and will be promoted at the annual OpenFabrics International Workshop. They will also receive one free pass to that annual Workshop to be used by an individual associated with the organization who is accepted as a technical speaker at that conference through the standard submission and review process.

How to Join

You can join at any membership level. A new membership agreement in accordance with the new bylaws will become available soon. Please check back.