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**Important:** your email address on Open Collective and on Cloudron must match. Membership is verified by matching the email you use to contribute on Open Collective against the email you use to log in. If they differ, you won't be recognized as a member. (Guest contributors — those who contribute without an Open Collective account — are recognized by the email they entered at checkout.) **Important:** your email address on Open Collective and on Cloudron must match. Membership is verified by matching the email you use to contribute on Open Collective against the email you use to log in. If they differ, you won't be recognized as a member. (Guest contributors — those who contribute without an Open Collective account — are recognized by the email they entered at checkout.)
### Founder tier (free, manual) ### Founder membership (free, invite-only)
There is a **free "Co-founder" tier** for early adopters. Open Collective cannot process it as a $0 recurring subscription (recurring contributions require an automatic payment method, and a $0 tier has none — OC rejects it with "Manual payment methods cannot be used for subscriptions"). So founder members are onboarded **manually**: There is a **free "Co-founder" membership** for early adopters — people who have been involved in earlier work on the project. It is **invite-only**: we reach out to trusted contributors directly rather than accepting requests from the general public.
1. The founder contacts us (info@inference.coop) with their name and email. Founder members are onboarded **manually** (Open Collective cannot process a $0 recurring subscription — recurring contributions require an automatic payment method, and a $0 tier has none):
1. We invite the founder and collect their name and email.
2. Their email is added to the portal's `MANUAL_MEMBERS` allowlist (a comma-separated env var). This exempts them from the daily sweep's deactivation, since they have no Open Collective membership to lapse. 2. Their email is added to the portal's `MANUAL_MEMBERS` allowlist (a comma-separated env var). This exempts them from the daily sweep's deactivation, since they have no Open Collective membership to lapse.
3. They are provisioned via the portal's `/admin/provision` endpoint (Cloudron user + LiteLLM key + welcome email + Loomio sync). 3. They are provisioned via the portal's `/admin/provision` endpoint (Cloudron user + LiteLLM key + welcome email + Loomio sync).
**Note:** the free tier on Open Collective is effectively a dead end — people can see it but can't complete it. Until a cleaner mechanism exists, founders should be directed to email us directly rather than attempt the OC flow.
## The stack ## The stack
The Inference Cooperative runs a self-hosted stack on [Cloudron](https://cloudron.io), with all inference routed through a single gateway to cloud-based LLM providers. The Inference Cooperative runs a self-hosted stack on [Cloudron](https://cloudron.io), with all inference routed through a single gateway to cloud-based LLM providers.