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Join your industry peers in helping build and shape the future of the LF Broadband ecosystem.

LF Broadband is seeking to build an ecosystem of contributors and users around full-featured open broadband networks, and virtualized multi-vendor PON systems.

Why become a member

LF Broadband strives to provide a neutral forum for open broadband network projects.

The foundation provides a forum to collaborate on a common technical vision, vocabulary, security best practices, and general roadmap, to be applied within separate workstreams and enterprise communities.

The LF Broadband Directed Fund was established in late 2023 as an independent fund under the Linux Foundation.

I'm ready to join!

How you benefit from membership

Gain a seat at the table to influence the strategic direction of LF Broadband and the projects that are focused on open broadband networks, and virtualized multi-vendor PON systems, with use cases applicable across a variety of industry solutions.

Be part of LF Broadband projects from across the open source networking ecosystem, hosted in an independent forum.

Achieve more visibility and credibility in the LF Broadband community by sharing your organization’s expertise from a position of leadership.

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Pricing*

Premier

Not currently LF Member
$70,000/year
Current LF Member
$50,000/year

General

(priced by employee headcount)

Not Currently LF Member
Current LF Member

$45,000 (USD) 5,000+

$25,000 (USD) 5,000+

$30,000 (USD) 500-4,999

$15,000 (USD) 500-4,999

$15,000 (USD) 100-499

$5,000 (USD) 100-499

$7,500 (USD) up to 99

$2,500 (USD) Up to 99

Ecosystem Membership is free for pre-approved open source projects, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, or government research institutions

Benefits

Premier

  • Appoint one (1) representative to the Governing Board
  • Enjoy most prominent placement in displays of membership
  • Access to LF’s invitation-only Open Source Leadership Summit
  • One (1) invited talk at annual LF Broadband event
  • Focused marketing opportunities throughout membership
  • Cross-promotion of LF Broadband-related marketing
  • Ongoing, individual engagement with TSC chairs and staff

General

  • Focused marketing opportunities
  • Enjoy prominent placement in displays of membership
  • Ongoing engagement with staff
  • Cross-promotion of LF Broadband-related marketing
  • Onboarding & engagement support

Ecosystem

  • Entitled to identify their organization as an Academic or Non-Profit supporting the mission of LF Broadband
  • No fee required
  • Ecosystem members may participate fully in the technical community with contributions, earn committer, or TSC roles on merit.

I Am Ready to Join LF Broadband!

All Ecosystem applications need to be approved before using this join form.

You can obtain a free Linux Foundation ID at identity.linuxfoundation.org

Members agree to the Project Charter and LF Broadband Premier Member Review & Admission Policy