{
  "registry": "the-gathering-sponsors",
  "title": "The Gathering sponsors",
  "description": "Machine-readable directory of The Gathering's sponsors. Source of truth for the sponsor cards on the public sponsorship page; render the page with scripts/gen-sponsor-cards.cjs. Recognition is non-exclusive: each sponsor declares its own focus and the directory lists them side by side.",
  "schemaVersion": "1.0",
  "canonicalUri": "https://mx.allabout.network/the-gathering/sponsors.json",
  "nonExclusive": true,
  "tierLabels": {
    "founding": "Founding sponsor",
    "in-kind": "In-kind sponsor",
    "community": "Community partner"
  },
  "tierOrder": ["founding", "in-kind", "community"],
  "sponsors": [
    {
      "id": "digital-domain-technologies",
      "name": "Digital Domain Technologies Ltd",
      "url": "https://digitaldomaintechnologies.com/",
      "tier": "founding",
      "logo": "/images/sponsors/digital-domain-technologies.svg",
      "logoAlt": "Digital Domain Technologies logo",
      "logoWidth": 120,
      "logoHeight": 120,
      "declaredFocus": ["MX standard operator", "REGINALD registry"],
      "blurb": "Founding sponsor of the MX community. Digital Domain Technologies, trading as CogNovaMX, operates the open MX standard and the REGINALD registry, and put the first funding and time behind The Gathering before there was an obvious return.",
      "links": [
        { "text": "The MX Manifesto", "url": "/blog/mx-manifesto.html" }
      ],
      "since": "2026"
    },
    {
      "id": "boye-company",
      "name": "Boye & Company",
      "url": "https://www.boye-co.com/",
      "tier": "in-kind",
      "logo": "/images/sponsors/boye-company.png",
      "logoAlt": "Boye & Company logo",
      "logoWidth": 200,
      "logoHeight": 180,
      "community": { "name": "CMS Experts", "url": "https://www.boye-co.com/groups/cms-experts" },
      "declaredFocus": ["CMS and digital-experience leadership community"],
      "blurb": "Boye & Company, whose CMS Experts community brings together CMS vendors, agencies, and enterprise users across Europe and North America. Its founder, Janus Boye, wrote the foreword to MX: The Handbook and supports The Gathering in kind: a venue where the open drafts are read and tested by working practitioners, and an independent voice for the peer-consensus tradition that MX is built on.",
      "links": [
        { "text": "MX: The Handbook (foreword by Janus Boye)", "url": "/books/handbook.html" }
      ],
      "since": "2026"
    }
  ]
}