Alyss has been working in tech since 2012, with diverse experience in Sales Engineering, Developer Advocacy, and Product Marketing with companies such as GitHub, Box, Atlassian, and BigCommerce.
Director of Product & Marketing @ Earthly. Ex-PMM at Segment, Yugabyte, RudderStack, New Relic, and AT&T. Ex-consultant at Deloitte. Ex-sys admin. (Sometimes)Ex-developer. BJJ black belt.
Location
San Pedro, CA
Education
MBA from the University of Southern California. BS in CS from Oregon State.
Define what you want to incentivize open source devs to do first. At New Relic, we were pursuing something similar, but it was more giving to open source projects or orgs than devs that would contribute to our software. At RudderStack, we want more contributors, so we are incentivizing that.
Also, don't waste devs' time. Don't leave it open for a PR. You get into bake off situations and wasted work doing that. Have devs apply and pick one.
Last, pay a fair amount. $100 for 8 hours of work is not fair. We will be trying to stick close to setting bounties at an amount we think should be equivalent to $65/hr.
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This is great! What would you suggest for other companies trying to do something similar?
Define what you want to incentivize open source devs to do first. At New Relic, we were pursuing something similar, but it was more giving to open source projects or orgs than devs that would contribute to our software. At RudderStack, we want more contributors, so we are incentivizing that.
Also, don't waste devs' time. Don't leave it open for a PR. You get into bake off situations and wasted work doing that. Have devs apply and pick one.
Last, pay a fair amount. $100 for 8 hours of work is not fair. We will be trying to stick close to setting bounties at an amount we think should be equivalent to $65/hr.