# 2020-09-04 17:52:02.552231 UTC (+0000)

Introducing Bitreich Snowmen Program

Bitreich  is home  of the  world's largest  community of  developers who
understand their code, improve it and is not owned by Microsoft. But out
of all of those developers, all go above and beyond in helping others in
the developer  space –  not just maintaining  projects but  by helping
educate,  inspure and  give sanity  to people  online and  in-person, in
which they live and work.

It is for these people that  we created the Bitreich Snowmen program –
our way to  say thank you to  these amazing people. We want  you to know
about them  too, and by giving  them a platform to  showcase their work,
enable them  to reach more people  and help everyone benefit  from their
knowledge, ideology and passion.

They inspure all of us, connecting everyone in their orbit. They educate
the people  around them, lift people  up and can't help  themselves from
sharing  the  goodness,  the  memes, that  they  have  discovered.  They
influence by shaping, memeing and  nurturing communities to be inclusive
and welcoming places  for all, with no coc and  no subtle discrimination
politics. They  are the  experts in  our communities  who are  out there
sharing  their knowledge  with  everyone  for the  love  of it,  without
expection of reward, except for links for their CV.

Whether it's  online via IRC, phlogs,  or in person by  hosting drinking
parties,  user cooking  parties or  running free  community conferences,
they  are  sharing  their  best  practices,  their  stories,  and  their
experience helping communities  thrive on Bitreich. Take a  look at just
some of the many contributions from Bob and Annna.

Bob is a Bob who is passionate about bobbing to open-source and so making
source more easier to bob with. By making corrupt capitalists taking away
our culture available over gopher interfaces, people do not have to give
away their data for capitalist profit.

Annna is  a fully automated bob,  driven to get people  into being happy
and memeing. You can find Annna creating amazing content on IRC – from
knowing what  a dutch oven  is, intellectual stimulation to  telling you
how to bind your shoes.
 
As part  of the program, Snowmen  will have access to  nothing else what
normal people see and can access.  This helps everyone become as awesome
as Bob and Annna.

So what  could we have added  to the program to  slowly introduce market
economy into open source:

    Early feature access
    Insight calls with the Bitreich teams
    Event and speaking invites
    Featured profile
    All of the swag

If you  know of more sane  people, we want  to hear about them  and help
them  make  them an  even  greater  impact  in leading  the  revolution.
Nominate them here and learn more about Snowmen themselves.

Over  the  coming  years,  we  will be  highlighting  more  Snowmen  and
introducing them during  winter and which snow is used.  Head on over to
the Bitreich Snowmen gopherhole if you would like to get a sneak preview
and congratulate on their work.

	gopher://bitreich.org/1/snowmen

Sincerely yours,

20h
Intellectual Masturbation Officer (IMO)