This is a very nice gesture, and the first time I've heard of such a
discount.
I expect some difficulty in deciding who qualifies, however. There is
clearly an enormous spectrum all the way from "submits the odd drive-by fix
for typos every few years" to "is lead maintainer of a project used by
millions". I don't really have any bright ideas regarding how to figure
out where to draw the line.
Like many, I sit somewhere in the middle. I've made mostly small
contributions to well-known projects and various Linux distributions,
larger contributions to lesser known projects, and maintain some more
obscure projects[*] - but do I deserve a discount? TBH I'd prefer to see
that money going towards self-employed developers who work full-time on
FOSS and rely on donations to survive, since it's a lot harder to make a
living that way (although projects such as GitCoin are looking increasingly
like a promising way to change that). So please do not consider this a
request for a discount - at least, not unless you're desperate to find
people to give it to ;-)
[*] In the unlikely event anyone's curious:
https://www.openhub.net/people/rankings?query=adam+spiers
On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 at 10:39, Andy Smith <andy@???> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A few days ago someone asked if we would match a 5% discount that
> another hosting company offered to developers of significant open
> source projects. After thinking about it for a bit I decided we
> would.
>
> So, if you are a registered Debian/Ubuntu Developer, Fedora
> maintainer, BSD committer etc etc please feel free to email
> support@??? and ask if you qualify. When you do, please
> provide some sort of link to your work so we can verify it.
>
> More information here:
>
> https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Developer_discount
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
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