Google has recently announced the recipients of the Open Source Peer Bonus prize, which is given to individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of open projects. The nominees are selected by Google employees, with the requirement that they are not affiliated with the company. The prize is meant to honor developers, technical writers, designers, community activists, mentors, security experts, and other individuals involved in open software.
This year, a total of 159 individuals were nominated for the prize, which marks a 38% decrease from last year. These nominees have been involved in the development of 78 different open projects, including familiar ones like Angular, Apache Spark, Bazel, Cargo, Chromium, Chimera Linux, Clangd, Containerd, Coredns, Curl, Dart, Gentoo Hardened, GO, Kubernetes, Libcamera, Linux, Mercurial, PostgreSQL, Rust, Tensorflow, and XZ.
The winners of the award will receive a certificate of recognition from Google, as well as a monetary reward, the specific amount of which has not been disclosed.