Standard Membership
Conditions:
- Any individual can request a Standard Membership.
Acceptance Procedure:
- Individuals request membership through the HEBench.org Join Us page.
- Added to “HEBench-All” upon confirmed request.
- Backend submitters automatically get a standard membership.
Benefits:
- See all HEBench Organization-level announcements.
- Ability to become an “Advanced Member” by volunteering to a governance work team.
- Can apply for an Advisor Membership.
Advanced Membership
Conditions:
- Standard member that volunteers for and joins any governance work team.
Acceptance Procedure:
- Governance work teams define rules and guidelines for their acceptance and retention procedures.
Benefits:
- Direct contribution to HEBench through development, pathfinding workloads, or reviewing submissions.
- Be part of the work teams that help Advisory and Steering teams reach decisions.
- Qualifies to be added to HEBench.org “Contributors” and “Members” sections based on contributions.
- All Standard Membership benefits.
Advisor Membership
Conditions:
- Standard member is proposed to become an Advisor through sponsorship of another Advisory team member.
Acceptance Procedure:
- Steering team decides whether that individual and/or organization can become part of Advisory team, through outlined voting procedures.
Benefits:
- Ability to attend steering meetings.
- Provides direct advice to Steering members.
- Can sponsor topics for steering meetings.
- Can be elevated to Steering member.
- Member’s organization added to HEBench.org “Members” section upon request.
- All Standard or Advanced Membership benefits.
Steering Membership
Conditions:
- Advisor must be sponsored by Steering team member.
Acceptance Procedure:
- Steering team decides whether to bring someone up from Advisor into Steering via established voting rules.
Benefits:
- Each Steering team member represents their organization. Each organization gets a single vote towards any final;decision regarding HEBench.
- Private communication channel with other Steering members.
- All Advisor Membership benefits.