Kaicode is an annual open source festival, started in 2015.

This is how it works: First, you submit your open-source product to us. Then, our jury will review it. If your product wins, we give you a monetary reward and a laurel badge that you can attach to your README file.

In order to get into the competition, your product must be:

Hosted on GitHub
Larger than 4,000 SLOC
Older than 12 months (since the first commit)
Younger than 60 months (since the first commit)
Not yet a winner of Kaicode

To win, your product must demonstrate the highest quality of code and development processes. In particular, the jury pays attention to the following (in no particular order):

It doesn’t matter how popular your product is or what programming language you use.

We reserve the right to reject any product without explanation.

Rewards

There are three nominations:

sample laurel badge
Perfect Product:
$2,048

sample laurel badge
Excellent Product:
$1,024

sample laurel badge
Awesome Product:
$512

The money will be sent to you in Bitcoins.

Jury

These programmers are in the jury (in alphabetic order of their GitHub nicknames):

Ivan Ivanchuk @l3r8yJ

Natalia Pozhidaeva @pnatashap

SlDo @SlDo

Vatavuk @Vatavuk

Each member of the jury reviews up to four projects. In each review we expect to see “good”, “average”, or “bad” mark in front of every quality dimension listed above. The sum of all marks constitute the final mark of a project.

We are still forming the jury. If you are interested in joining, please email us.