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Draft Vercel OSS Program application and sponsor-outreach kit - #70

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Materials-only per #52 — drafting, not sending/applying (that stays a manual step for the repo owner).

  • Vercel OSS Program application draft: verified the program is currently closed (reopens August), and found a real eligibility gap worth flagging before anyone applies — the marketing site is hosted on Netlify, and the program requires Vercel hosting (current or intended). Left as an explicit decision, not glossed over.
  • Sponsor target list: 10 companies, with the first 4 verified directly against taste-skill's actual live sponsor list (not assumed from memory) — IMG.LY, Sent.dm, Novamira, and Emil Kowalski/animations.dev individually. Framed honestly: tastemaker is 58 stars / 3 weeks old, so expect a different response rate than a 67.7k-star project gets.
  • One-page sponsor pitch: reusable draft with placeholders for real numbers at send time, and a note tying its "already built" sponsor-placement claim to Day 7 — README/brand polish: custom badges, impersonation disclaimer, community-sponsor grid, cross-agent claims #55 actually shipping first.

Closes #52

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N/A — documentation/drafts only, no code changes, nothing sent.

Materials only, per #52 — sending/applying is a manual step for the repo owner, not automated here.

- vercel-oss-application.md: verified the program is currently closed (reopens August, per vercel.com/open-source-program), and surfaced a real eligibility gap — the marketing site is Netlify-hosted, not Vercel, and the program requires "hosted on or intended to host on Vercel." Flagged as a decision needed before applying, not silently glossed over.
- sponsor-targets.md: 10 targets, verified against taste-skill's actual current sponsor list (IMG.LY, Sent.dm, Novamira, Vercel, Emil Kowalski/animations.dev — confirmed via their live README, not assumed from memory), with an honest framing that tastemaker's 58 stars / 3-weeks-old stage won't match taste-skill's 67.7k-star response rate.
- sponsor-pitch.md: reusable one-page draft with placeholders for current numbers at send time, and a note that the README sponsor-grid section (#55) needs to actually exist before the pitch's "already built" claim is true.
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…elog current (#71)

Resolves #53. Added version: 1.0.0 to SKILL.md's frontmatter — a real, considered call: the generative core (palette gen, structure/diversification, gates, verbs) has been exercised across many real builds, not just written and left untested, which is past a 0.x designation honestly.

The site changelog (site/changelog.html) was 12 merged PRs behind (#47, #48, #57, #58, #59, #64-67, #69-70 were missing) — backfilled those before generating the root file from it, so the two don't start out already drifted. CHANGELOG.md is a condensed summary pointing to the site as the canonical, PR-linked detailed record, per the issue's second option.

Also fixes a real, already-merged bug: the marketing site's actual live domain is tastemaker-ai-skill.netlify.app, not tastemaker-skill.online — the wrong domain had been used in #70's sponsor-pitch.md draft; corrected here before it's used for real outreach.
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Day 4 — Apply to Vercel OSS Program + build a sponsor-outreach kit

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