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Official Sponsors

Diamond Sponsors

  • Acquia provides the leading cloud platform for building, delivering, and optimizing digital experiences.

    Global organizations use the Acquia Platform to create a single, powerful digital foundation for delivering world-class customer experiences. With the Acquia Platform, organizations can realize the vision of personalized, contextual, and real-time customer engagement for the right person, at the right time, on the right device. These experiences can be easily deployed and managed at scale, for one to thousands of sites, driving transformative business results at breakthrough speed.

  • Bytemark started in 2001 as a consulting firm based in York, UK. Its directors are experienced software and network engineers Matthew Bloch and Peter Taphouse. They combined their experience to build the UK’s ‘nerd hosting outfit of choice’.

  • The #1 cross platform IR receiver which features the ability to pair any remote control for use with your favorite media center application.

  • Leaseweb is a leading Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider serving a worldwide portfolio of 18,000 customers ranging from SMBs to Enterprises. Services include Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Dedicated Servers, Colocation, Content Delivery Network, and Cyber Security Services supported by exceptional customer service and technical support. With more than 80,000 servers under management, Leaseweb has provided infrastructure for mission-critical websites, Internet applications, email servers, security, and storage services since 1997. The company operates 20 datacenters in locations across Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America, all of which are backed by a superior worldwide network with a total capacity of more than 10 Tbps.

  • Weblate is copylefted libre translation software, used by over 1,500 companies and libre software projects in over 115 countries. It has live development, cloud or self-hosted options, premium support, and excellent public documentation. Localization is continuous thanks to the tight VCS integration and many supported translation formats. Features include customizable quality checks, unlimited collaboration, various add-ons like machine translation, glossaries, advanced collaboration features, and many more. Localize KODI, or start your own translation today and be part of the vibrant community.

Gold Sponsors

  • GoatCounter is an open source web analytics platform available as a hosted service (free for non-commercial use) or self-hosted app. It aims to offer easy to use and meaningful privacy-friendly web analytics as an alternative to Google Analytics or Matomo.

  • Professional Apple Mac Mini colocation & hosting services.

 

Becoming an XBMC Foundation Sponsor

Kodi is a fairly expensive operation to maintain, and as such, we are always happy to welcome new sponsors to the fold, as additional sponsorships tend to make it easier to further development and spread the word. To become an XBMC Foundation sponsor, any organization may simply contact the XBMC Foundation at contact (AT) kodi.tv.

With that said, the XBMC Foundation remains a non-profit organization, and as such, we would like very much to combine simple financial growth with definite software and community growth. Keeping that in mind, we ask that all potential sponsors answer the following brief questions in their contact email:

  1. In a paragraph, could you tell us a bit about your organization?
  2. Why would you like to become an XBMC Foundation sponsor?
  3.  What efforts have you made, if any, to advance Open Source Software generally and Kodi specifically?
  4. What level of XBMC Sponsorship are  you interested in?

Sponsorship Levels

DevCon Sponsor

Each year, the XBMC Foundation hosts a single Developers Conference sometime in early spring, typically in May. Each year we are happy to accept a single DevCon Sponsor to help defray the costs of the Conference. The DevCon sponsor will have its name included on all DevCon t-shirts, including any DevCon t-shirts the organization determines to sell to the general public. The DevCon sponsor will also have its name included in any Conference banners and the Conference and next Beta 1 blog posts. Finally, the DevCon Sponsor will receive all the perks of being a Diamond Sponsor.

The cost of the DevCon Sponsorship is negotiable.

Diamond Sponsor

All Diamond Sponsors will be listed alphabetically on the sponsorship page along with their logo, as well as having their logo linked to their website on the front page. All Diamond Sponsors may refer to themselves as an “XBMC Foundation Sponsor” or simply as an “Kodi Sponsor”. Diamond Sponsors are invited to come speak to the Team at the yearly DevCon at their expense.

A yearly Diamond Sponsorship costs $10,000, which may also be donated as services (particularly services critical to the development or maintenance of Kodi) at the behest of the Foundation Board of Directors.

Gold Sponsor

All Gold Sponsors will be linked in text on the sponsorship page. All Gold Sponsors may refer to themselves in press as an “XBMC Foundation Sponsor” or as a “Kodi Sponsor”. Gold Sponsors are invited to come speak to the Team at the yearly DevCon at their expense.

A yearly Gold Sponsorship costs $2,500, which may also be donated as services at the behest of the Foundation Board of Directors.

Terms and Conditions

The XBMC Foundation reserves the right to refuse or remove any sponsorship for any reason. No goods or services will be transferred to any sponsor in connection with their donation.