[opk]

Seems like a nice idea but choosing recipients based on popularity is not going to reach the most deserving. Of the nominees, they should cut it down to those who are doing open source as a spare time hobby. Preferably those who have maintained some unfashionable, boring seeming infrastructure project for the past couple of decades. Of the names that are familiar to me on the nominee list, all are the type of people that are adept enough at self-promotion to be well paid anyway.

Pick the number 2 or 3 developer on small team projects rather than the well-known charismatic founder. For a pure one-man project it is a lot easier to solicit donations because there's no need to divide up the spoils. Many projects are small teams, only the biggest create foundations an have the capacity to have actual assets.

[tommyage]

Well, its a vote. And you can suggest an recepient.

I think it is honorable that all these People are listed by name. And carefully summarized (apparently by hand). It shows gratitude.

Hopefully the number of votes do not get published afterwards. Otherwise the whole thing would backfire, I guess.

[aarondf]

I've been one of the people hand summarizing these descriptions, so thank you for saying that. It's been a lot of work but I want to make sure everyone gets a good description of what they're working on!

[r00k]

Hey there! I'm one of the people behind this project.

Totally agree with the issue you've laid out. We don't want this to become a pure popularity contest.

When we choose the winners, we'll consider vote totals but also several other signals.

[jelder]

Thank you, I love this project. Tuple, too, for that matter.

[tomkarho]

>> Preferably those who have maintained some unfashionable, boring seeming infrastructure project for the past couple of decades.

So essentially this guy: https://xkcd.com/2347/