[chef-dev] Re: Incentivizing open source, possible bounty program?

[Jesse Robbins < >]

On Feb 7, 2012, at 2:56 PM, Ann Marie Fred wrote:
> I would love admission and travel expenses for a Chef or Devops conference.
> Obviously I wouldn't expect that for a single bug fix, but if there was a
> points system, and you could get something like that with a certain number
> of points, that would be great.

I've been spending a lot of time thinking about how to do discounts for 
#ChefConf for active community contributors, and will be sharing more about 
that in the next few days.

In that process, I've generated some interesting metrics on the size and 
health of our community which I thought I'd share.

Right now there are about 400 people who have done one or more of the 
following things:
 * Contributed code to Chef, Ohai, or another Opscode project
 * Published a Cookbook
 * Participated in the Community Summit
 * Contributed documentation on the Wiki or other community sites.

You are all awesome.

-Jesse