Votes are over! The three lucky winners have been announced. Discover who’s won down below.

Send an Open Source Developer on Vacation

Tuple is giving away an all-expenses-paid vacation to three of your favorite open source developers. (and their plus-ones!)

Not just any vacation, either.
We're talking serious vacations.

Here are actual pictures, from the actual destinations.

The winners will pick their favorite destination from over 500 boutique hotels, resorts, and villas across the world.

We'll book the hotel.

We'll buy the flights.

We'll even issue them a pre-paid card for meals, adventures, or daiquiris by the pool.

Each winner will get up to $10,000 to spend on their vacation. Plus ones are welcome, or you can spend the whole thing on yourself. You do you!

“ Hold on for a sec, Why a vacation?

Glad you asked. At Tuple, we love open source. We sponsor open source, we develop open source, we use open source. We're no strangers to signing off from a long day of coding just to finally open up some code!

We wanted to give back to the OSS community in a fun and unique way.

We talked to the maintainers of several projects and floated some of our brilliant* and helpful** ideas by them.

We offered makeovers to documentation sites, pitching in with customer support, or incentivizing pull requests with swag. The responses ranged from “meh” to “please don't do this”.

We finally landed on one that hit home: what if we just sent people on an insane vacation?

It's something that almost everyone would love, but few would feel comfortable spending their own money on. That's exactly what we were looking for!

Where we need you

Vote for your faves

We're looking to you, dear reader, to help us figure out who we should send on these vacations.

Is there someone in your community that keeps it all running? Someone either out front or behind the scenes that folks rely on? Someone whose work you appreciate? Someone that just needs a few days in a hot tub with a glass of wine?

Here are a few OSS developers that were recommended to us. You can vote for up to three people to get these vacations.

Confirm your vote

To ensure that the votes are fair, we’ll just need you to authenticate via GitHub.*

You can still pick 2 other people 2 other people 1 other person before casting your vote.

You picked 3 people! Let's vote!

*We're using GitHub to ensure you're a real person. We'll email you once to notify you of the winners.

Nominations

Nominations are now closed

Thank you to everyone who contributed to nominating folks: with your help, we were able to find 437 talented developers!

Voting will be open until July 25, 2022. Winners will be announced some time after that.

You can help us by sharing this page within the communities you're a part of.

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With your help, we're really going to surprise and delight some people.

Photos credits: Nattu Adnan, Shifaaz Shamoon, relaischateaux.com

Meet the winners

Well, the results are in!

First, let us say that we were blown away by how many nominations we got. In the span of a few weeks, we received over 437 nominations (that's after we cleaned up all duplicates). We'd like to thank everyone who contributed to build this list of nominees.

We received a staggering 14,000 votes from over 4,500 people. We were reminded yet again that there are so many selfless OSS developers all over the world, working with all kinds of technologies. We wish we could send everyone on vacation!

Without further ado, the winners!

TJ DeVries

tjdevries

One of the core maintainers of Neovim, the creator of telescope.nvim, a community builder and live-streamer.

Deepthi Sigireddi

deepthi

Project lead and maintainer of Vitess, which powers some of the largest sites and is one of the oldest Go projects in existence.

Eduardo San Martin Morote

posva

Member of the Vue.js core team, maintainer of vue-router, Pinia, vuefire, and many other Vue related libraries.

We're beyond excited to give these three developers (and their families!) a much needed break. We gave each of them a call to let them know they had won.

What's next?

Vacation! The winners will decide where they want to go, who they want to take, and when they want to go. We'll keep you updated here with (just a few) pictures and videos from the various vacations!

OSS forever

Tuple is free for OSS teams

This isn't the end of our OSS involvement, not even close. We're giving Tuple away to all OSS teams. We couldn't do what we do without open source software, and we'll always be trying to give back in any way we can.

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