Onboard Gold AI partner: EPAM
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<strong>Update Summary: </strong>[One-line status update for stakeholders]<br>
<strong>Check-in Date: </strong>MM/DD/YYYY<br>
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<h3 id="summary-problem-motivation">Problem/Motivation</h3>
<p>Need to onboard new Gold partner: EPAM</p>
<h3 id="summary-proposed-resolution">Proposed resolution</h3>
<p><strong>Note, some onboarding happened awhile ago but the process has been updated so there are more things for onboarding</strong></p>
<p>Go through onboarding form and do what I can and hand off to dev managers and marketing as needed</p>
<h3 id="summary-remaining-tasks">Target date or deadline</h3>
<p>March 2026</p>
<h3 id="summary-remaining-tasks">Remaining tasks</h3>
<ul>
<li><del>Create partner onboarding tab from template</del></li>
<li><del>Add to mailing lists</del></li>
<li><del>Add to private Slack channels (partners/contributors)</del></li>
<li><del>Add to public Slack channels (marketing/UX/QA/ai-contrib)</del></li>
<li><del>Add to non-dev meeting invites (marketing/UX)</del></li>
<li><del>Add to dev meeting invites (planning/review/standups)</del></li>
<li><del>Add as supporting organization on the ai_initiative project</del></li>
<li><del>Check contributor form was filled out</del> (missing Seth, I let him know)</li>
<li><del>Check planning sheet was filled out</del> (notified about hours)</li>
<li>Create issue for logo/blurb update that includes
<ul>
<li><del>Upload logo to d.o issue so it can referenced or use d.o logo as appropriate</del></li>
<li><del>Add logo/blurb to d.o/ai/makers</del></li>
<li>Update logo wall image (<strong>need doc</strong>)</li>
<li>Update d.o/ai/become-a-maker with new logo wall image (<strong>need logo wall image</strong>)</li>
</ul></li>
<li><del>Create private onboarding channel with the right people from partner and team lead</del>s</li>
<li>In private channel:
<ul>
<li><del>Ping Arian+Rakhi re dev onboarding as needed</del></li>
<li><del>Ping Paul re marketing onboarding as needed</del></li>
<li><del>Ping Aidan re UX onboarding as needed</del> (n/a)</li>
<li><del>Ping Maddy re QA onboarding as needed</del> (n/a)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><del>Ping DA to add the badge to their profile (they need to pay their invoice first)</del></li>
<li><del>Create follow-up issue to run partner audit a couple of weeks later to check for gaps</del></li>
</ul>
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