Sponsor Nav2
Join world leading organizations in supporting the most widely-adopted mobile robot navigation framework. Your sponsorship helps keep Nav2 free and continuously improving.
Open Navigation LLC was formed in 2023 to lead, develop, and support the Nav2 navigation framework. Nav2 is utilized by 300+ companies worldwide from agriculture and mining to warehousing automation and advanced research. It has received significant attention due to its modern and expanding capabilities, high quality and configurability, and professional maintenance and support.
Additionally, the Nav2 community drives ROS 2 adoption and are often the first to find bugs critical to ROS users more broadly — creating a more stable and effective ROS for all.
We seek sponsorship from organizations relying upon ROS 2 and/or Nav2 for their products and services to enable long-term stability of the critical capability within your systems. Financing Nav2 and its related packages provides a sustainable avenue to continue to reliably merge changes on a rapid timeline, resolve software defects, develop additional capabilities, and perform the thankless maintenance tasks behind the scenes.
In exchange, sponsors receive prioritized responses and expanded private access to Open Navigation LLC staff and expertise, in addition to other benefits including publicity and roadmap influence. If you leverage ROS 2 or Nav2, sponsoring Open Navigation is in your own best interest!
Why A Sponsorship Model?
Alignment of Interests
Your sponsorship directly supports the development of features you need. Sponsors have direct input into the roadmap and priorities.
Expert Access
Get direct access to the maintainers who built Nav2. Reduce your development time with expert guidance and support.
Industry Recognition
Showcase your company's commitment to open-source robotics. Your logo appears across Nav2's documentation, repository, and presentations.
Reduce Risk
Ensure the long-term sustainability of the navigation stack your products depend on. Support continued maintenance and improvements.
Easy to Use
Alignment to make software easy to use — rather than obfuscating software to drive consulting business.
Open-Source & Free
Alignment to keep software free and open for all. Forever.
All Sponsors Receive
Sponsoring Nav2 enables world-class experts to continue to provide proactive support to all end-users globally. It also allows for the continued development of key technologies to solve tangible problems facing the commercialization of robotics in a number of domains.
- Commitment to keep Nav2 open and free
- Continued development of capabitilities and applications in Nav2
- Resolution of identified bugs or defects
- High-quality knowledge sharing, documentation, and technical communication
- Enforcement of high quality standards, security, release, and versioning stability
- Creating the environment for collaborations with students, researchers, and companies
- Access to maintainers for contracting opportunities
- Prioritized responses across email, Slack, and public tickets
- Regular project updates and syncs
- Reciprocal access: a bidirectional relationship sharing needs and feedback for roadmap planning
Please thank our sponsors for enabling these amazing benefits to the ROS 2 and Nav2 communities.
Sponsorship Tiers
Silver Sponsor
- Small company logo/link on website, repository, and presentations
- Up to quarterly private meetings with maintainers
- Commitment to keep Nav2 open and free
- Access to maintainers for contracting opportunities
- Prioritized responses across email, Slack, and public tickets
- Regular project updates and syncs
- Reciprocal access: a bidirectional relationship sharing uses & feedback for roadmap planning
Gold Sponsor
- Medium company logo/link on website, repository, and presentations
- Up to monthly private meetings with maintainers
- Direct access to expertise on Nav2-specific questions
- First access to new features with integration support
- All previous benefits from Silver
- Private Slack access for rapid communication
- Separate private project board
Platinum Sponsor
- Large, prominent logo/link across all channels
- Up to biweekly meetings plus as-needed access
- Unlimited expertise access on any topic
- Expanded roadmap influence
- Separate private Slack access for rapid communication
- Separate private project board
- First access to features, choice in white papers and case studies
- Customizable benefits negotiation
Ready to Become a Sponsor?
Contact us to discuss the best sponsorship option for your organization.
Contact Us About SponsorshipOr email us directly at sponsors@opennav.org