I’m a big fan of rules and discipline in software development; as an example, see Are You a Hacker or a Designer?. Also, I’m a big fan of object-oriented programming in its purest form; for example, see Seven Virtues of a Good Object. I’m also a co-founder and a retired CEO of Zerocracy, a software development company through which I put my admiration of discipline and clean design into practice.
I want to encourage you to share my passion—not just by reading this blog but through making real open source software in a disciplined way. This award is for those who are brave enough to swim against the current and value quality above everything else.
Since 2023, the award is renamed to Kaicode Open Source Festival.
@amihaiemil, @hdouss, and @victorx64 were the winners in 2020 with decorators-squad/eo-yaml ($1,024), hdouss/jeometry (1,024), and victorx64/devrating ($1,024) projects. More details.
@fabriciofx and @proshin-roman were the winners in 2019 with cactoos-jdbc ($1,024) and finapi-java-client ($1,024) projects. More details.
@driver733 and @dgroup were the winners in 2018 with VK-Uploader ($2,048) and docker-unittests ($1,024) projects. More details.
@itcraftsmanpl and @mafagafogigante were the winners in 2017 with php-ml (PHP) and dungeon (Java) projects. They received a cash prize of $1,024 each. More details.
@pholser and @sils were the winners in 2016 with pholser/junit-quickcheck (Java) and coala/coala (Python) projects. They received a cash prize of $2,048 each. More details.
@gvlasov was a winner in 2015 with gvlasov/inflectible Java project and a cash prize of $4,096. More details.