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by stordoff 2518 days ago
My understanding (from Google Translating various posts) is that a company was trying to incentivise people starring the GitHub page (in an effort to justify the project internally?[1]). From the Facebook page (Google Translated):

> metatron discovery event

> Event period: 7/1 (Mon) - 7/20 (Sat)

> How to participate: Please comment on this post after capturing screen shot of STAR on metatron discovery in GitHub.

> Announcement of winners: 7/23 (Tue) (Individual will be contacted)

> Prize guide [projector, monitor, headphones, keyboard, coffee]

[1] 국내에서.. 특히 대기업내에서 이런 오픈소스 프로젝트가 유지될수 있을 것으로 생각하는 이는 거의 없을 것이라고 생각합니다. 이런 환경속에서 저희로써는 매년 매순간 이 프로젝트가 잘 될 수 있다고 증명해야했고, 그 중 하나가 star 의 개수였습니다. -> I do not think there will be many people in the domestic market that think that such open source projects can be maintained, especially in large corporations. In this environment, we had to prove every year that the project could work well, One of them was the number of stars. -- quote from a comment by kyungtaak, a contributor.