From: Ralf Jung Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2023 18:52:50 +0000 (+0100) Subject: add Google OSPB post X-Git-Url: https://git.ralfj.de/web.git/commitdiff_plain/d3547e5fc5186be997e4f09bb4a21d50fb0dcf7f?ds=sidebyside add Google OSPB post --- diff --git a/personal/_posts/2023-12-27-open-source-peer-bonus.md b/personal/_posts/2023-12-27-open-source-peer-bonus.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..00fd3dd --- /dev/null +++ b/personal/_posts/2023-12-27-open-source-peer-bonus.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +title: "Google Open Source Peer Bonus" +categories: rust +--- + +We are all used to spam emails, supposedly from Google, that say "You won" and I just need to send all my data to somewhere to receive my lottery payout. +When I recently received an email about Google's "Open Source Peer Bonus" program, I almost discarded it as yet another version of that kind of spam. +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).