By joining the OPF, members become a part of an intentional effort to develop digital preservation best practices, tools and technologies.

• Help shape the OPF strategy and roadmap
• Influence the subjects covered by OPF events and training

• Receive advance notification of, and enjoy priority booking for OPF hackathons and webinars
• Attend OPF hackathons free-of-charge
• Choose themes and define goals/agendas for OPF hackathons
• Suggest themes/speakers for OPF Webinars
• Present webinars highlighting their own work
• Attend live webinars and access all past recordings

• Influence the selection of tools supported by OPF
• Access help and support with open software development practices
• Ensure that software features they rely on are tested automatically by the OPF
• Help create corpora of open test data representing real world digital preservation challenges
• Access support when installing, configuring, and using OPF tools in their organisations
• Test and validate prototype tools and provide feedback
• Request specific tool features by providing requirements and use cases, and receive help turning these into automated software tests
• Request reports and surveys to be carried out on your behalf on specific areas of digital preservation

• Participate in lively, informative discussions with digital preservation experts from around the world
• Keep up-to-date with digital preservation project activities
• Engage with each other and OPF to influence the EU agenda
• Collaborate with organisations facing similar challenges
• Meet potential partners for project consortium
• Request peer-reviews of your organisation’s systems or development practices

OPF Community Benefits

The OPF provides platforms to support an active and growing community that fosters collaboration between preservation practitioners and technical experts.

OPF Wiki http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/KB/Home

• Offers a wealth of information about digital preservation issues, requirements and solutions which is regularly updated by the community.
• Provides a home for the projects in which OPF are involved: SCAPE, SPRUCE and the recently closed AQuA project.
• Hosts a number of Special Interest Groups which focus on a specific topic or tool.

OPF Website http://openplanetsfoundation.org/

• Regular blog contributions on digital preservation from all over the world
• Community events calendar
• Digital preservation news feed

Developer community

• Provides development environment and process (host code and issue tracking)
• OPF Technical Board actively involved in the community
• Provides training on development practices (versioning, coding, documenting)

Working groups

• Hosts and facilitate working groups at request of members e.g. Database Archiving Group