Acknowledgements for Neos supporters

The Neos project already offered longtime and onetime badges to acknowledge supporters of the Neos project but now we decided to raise the sponsoring concept to a new level. So we sat together in the marketing guild to work on a concept to incorporate more ways of support. These are the types of support we want to acknowledge with digital badges:

• Employment of active team members of the Neos team
• Longtime financial support
• Core feature sponsoring
• Event organization
• Onetime financial support of e.g. sprints

Which support fits your needs?

Companies that employ and support one or more active core team members are rewarded with this badge for their investment in Neos (provided they support the core team members spending company time for their Neos work).

1. Digital badge showing the current number of active team members of the Neos team.
2. When a new team member is added, there will be a news on neos.io and the new team member will be added to the teams page.

If you want to support the Neos project financially on a regular basis this is the right decision for you. We offer five levels from 50 € to 1000 € per month with a payment interval of three months. Your contribution will be used to advance the most important activities of the Neos project.

Bronze (50 € per month), Silver (100 € per month), Gold (200 € per month), Platinum (10.000 € annually) and Diamond (25.000 € annually) with a payment interval of 3 months.
At the moment we are working on an overview of the differences of these levels. So stay tuned it will be alvailale here soon!

A company or person is eligible for a core feature sponsoring recognition if money is spent on supporting a core feature exceeding the minimum threshold of 4.000 €. So if you've developed a core feature or employed a company to do so this is the badge you can apply for.

Companies, where active Neos team members work on core features are not eligible for the core features sponsoring. The reasons being that we want to recognize the actual spending of money on Neos and we believe that the "Active Team Member Employer" is much stronger in its marketing effect.
There is an edge case, where another employee (not a core team member) of a company develops a core team feature. However, we agreed to not flesh this case out until it actually materializes.

Event Organizers get a recognition for their monetary and non-monetary efforts to organize an endorsed Neos event. For example

• a Neos conference
• a Meet Neos event
• a Neos DevCamp
• a Neos Bar Camp
• a Neos Sprint

1. Physical badge to stand on a desk
   
2. Digital badge
   
3. Mentioning in news, newsletter and official communication on neos.io

There are no different levels for an event organization, as the event itself produces marketing output and publicity corresponding to its size.

If you can't decide for a longtime financial support but still want to help the Neos Project, we have smaller onetime packages for current things which need your support. These packages vary from sprint support to e.g. brand support. Check out our funding platform, what kinds of packages we currently offer and get one! (They are not always available.)

1. Digital badge
2. Mentioning in official communication in the social media
   

These wonderful badges can be obtained on neosfunding.sandstorm.de. So go on, get one!
Thanks to sandstorm for building and supporting the funding platform!

The Neos marketing guild would love to have more members! If you are interested in marketing issues, usability, design or other marketing related areas, you are very welcome to join us! It doesn't matter which country you come from, we all speak fluent English and obviously not everything is about coding ;).

Simply talk to us during an event, write a mail to hello (at) neos.io or drop a note in the marketing guild slack channel (#guild-marketing).