# 2020-09-04 17:52:02.552231 UTC (+0000)
Introducing Bitreich Snowmen Program
Bitreich is home of the world's largest community of developers who
understand their code, improve it and is not owned by Microsoft. But out
of all of those developers, all go above and beyond in helping others in
the developer space – not just maintaining projects but by helping
educate, inspure and give sanity to people online and in-person, in
which they live and work.
It is for these people that we created the Bitreich Snowmen program –
our way to say thank you to these amazing people. We want you to know
about them too, and by giving them a platform to showcase their work,
enable them to reach more people and help everyone benefit from their
knowledge, ideology and passion.
They inspure all of us, connecting everyone in their orbit. They educate
the people around them, lift people up and can't help themselves from
sharing the goodness, the memes, that they have discovered. They
influence by shaping, memeing and nurturing communities to be inclusive
and welcoming places for all, with no coc and no subtle discrimination
politics. They are the experts in our communities who are out there
sharing their knowledge with everyone for the love of it, without
expection of reward, except for links for their CV.
Whether it's online via IRC, phlogs, or in person by hosting drinking
parties, user cooking parties or running free community conferences,
they are sharing their best practices, their stories, and their
experience helping communities thrive on Bitreich. Take a look at just
some of the many contributions from Bob and Annna.
Bob is a Bob who is passionate about bobbing to open-source and so making
source more easier to bob with. By making corrupt capitalists taking away
our culture available over gopher interfaces, people do not have to give
away their data for capitalist profit.
Annna is a fully automated bob, driven to get people into being happy
and memeing. You can find Annna creating amazing content on IRC – from
knowing what a dutch oven is, intellectual stimulation to telling you
how to bind your shoes.
As part of the program, Snowmen will have access to nothing else what
normal people see and can access. This helps everyone become as awesome
as Bob and Annna.
So what could we have added to the program to slowly introduce market
economy into open source:
Early feature access
Insight calls with the Bitreich teams
Event and speaking invites
Featured profile
All of the swag
If you know of more sane people, we want to hear about them and help
them make them an even greater impact in leading the revolution.
Nominate them here and learn more about Snowmen themselves.
Over the coming years, we will be highlighting more Snowmen and
introducing them during winter and which snow is used. Head on over to
the Bitreich Snowmen gopherhole if you would like to get a sneak preview
and congratulate on their work.
gopher://bitreich.org/1/snowmen
Sincerely yours,
20h
Intellectual Masturbation Officer (IMO)
