X-Git-Url: https://git.ralfj.de/web.git/blobdiff_plain/d3547e5fc5186be997e4f09bb4a21d50fb0dcf7f..09a57fbd0d9a22cda06212810a5b12f017619955:/personal/_posts/2023-12-27-open-source-peer-bonus.md?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/personal/_posts/2023-12-27-open-source-peer-bonus.md b/personal/_posts/2023-12-27-open-source-peer-bonus.md index 00fd3dd..6214be7 100644 --- a/personal/_posts/2023-12-27-open-source-peer-bonus.md +++ b/personal/_posts/2023-12-27-open-source-peer-bonus.md @@ -9,5 +9,14 @@ But it turns out sometimes these emails are real! Meanwhile the [official announcement](https://opensource.googleblog.com/2023/12/google-open-source-peer-bonus-program-announces-second-group-of-2023-winners.html) has been released which lists me as a recipient of this bonus as a thank you for my work on Rust. So this one time, it wasn't spam after all! + + Thanks a lot to Google for this program at the $250 reward; it is great to see open source work honored this way. I have donated the amount in full to [noyb](https://noyb.eu/en), who I'm sure will be using it [for good](https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-first-major-fine-eu-1-million-using-google-analytics). + +**Update (2024-01-07):** +In fact, this is already my second Google Open Source Peer Bonus. +The first was in the [first half of 2023](https://opensource.googleblog.com/2023/05/google-open-source-peer-bonus-program-announces-first-group-of-winners-2023.html). +Due to issues with the payment process, it took a while for that bonus to be transferred, but I can confirm that it has now arrived in my bank account. +I will have to find a suitable non-for-profit to donate this to... or it might be noyb again, we will see. +**/Update**