First batch of Donations to Open source projects from CUBRID Affiliates Program

posted 6 months ago in CUBRID Life category by [Level:2]

Six months have passed since we have started our program and we would like to announce the results as well as names of developers who will receive first batch of donations from CUBRID open source project.

The CUBRID Affiliates Program was a great success for sure! Originally we had planned to reward $3000 in total to top 3 projects. Over the course of the last six months we have discovered many useful open source applications written in various programming languages. Some of them have already become our affiliates by adding CUBRID Database support to their applications.

Considering the effort all individual developers have put into adding CUBRID support in their own or third-party applications (yes, we did accept developers who contributed CUBRID code to other open source projects), we have decided to reward all of them with at least $150 donation. Depending on the effort it took as well as additional contributions (issue reports, questions asked, blog posts, tutorials) made by each developer, the donation ranges from 150 USD to 500 USD.

We would like to thank all of the developers for their effort and willingness to support CUBRID open source database project one way or another. We are also extremely happy to be able to support them in return!

No.	Application Name	Developer	Country	Donation ($)
1	jOOQ	Lukas Eder	Switzerland	500
2	SIDU	Topnew Geo	Australia	400
3	SOFA Statistics	Grant Paton-Simpson	New Zealand	300
4	ART, Quartz	Timothy Anyona	Kenya	150 + 150
5	Brig	Andrew Naplavkov	Russia	150
6	DataCleaner	Kasper Sørensen	Denmark	150
7	GestDB	Arsenio Molinero	Spain	150
8	JMyETL	Xiong He	China	150
9	JWhoisServer	Klaus Zerwes	Germany	150
10	Kalkun	Azhari Harahap	Indonesia	150
11	RedBeanPHP	Gabor de Mooji	Nederland	150
12	Sequel	Jeremy Evans	USA	150
13	Tadpole for DB	HyunJong Cho	South Korea	150
14	QDepo	Stefan Suciu	Romania	150

As you can see in the above table, the first 3 applications will receive donations of $500, $400 and $300 respectively. The rest contributors will receive a $150 donation each. The exception is the ART project where the developer Timothy Anyona has also contributed to Quartz Scheduler project. Thanks to him Quartz Scheduler now supports CUBRID Database.

The 14 applications that have become our affiliates come from all over the world, from 4 different continents and 14 different countries. In the image below, you can see how CUBRID has reached developers on a worldwide scale.

CUBRID Worldwide Affiliates - Click to Enlarge

CUBRID Affiliates Program does NOT stop on this. We will continue to accept new open source projects as our Affiliates. If you develop or contribute to an open source project and you want to add CUBRID Database support, we will be very glad to help you and see you onboard! Please contact us by email to affiliates@cubrid.org and let us know about your project. We will be guiding you all the time by answering your questions, resolving encountered issues, and simply talking (join our IRC). Remember that CUBRID provides over 90% SQL compatibility with MySQL, so porting an app to CUBRID should be straightforward.

Once again thank you Lukas, Topnew, Grant, Timothy, Andrew, Kasper, Arsenio, Xiong He, Klaus, Azhari, Gabor, Jeremy, HyunJong, and Stefan for supporting our project! We will contact you by email regarding how you can receive the donation.

If you have questions, feel free to ask on our dedicated Q&A site, forum, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, #cubrid IRC channel, or contact us by email. We will be glad to answer you!