Code Sustainability and Excellence

We believe that global code excellence is achievable in our lifetime. Coding best practices can and should promulgate the common good while ensuring that future revisions and updates continue to build on and enlarge this code base of excellence. As developers espouse green coding practices, the quality of subsequent code releases will increase exponentially over time. While this transformation is taking place, you can act decisively today and help mitigate the environmental impact of bad code, even code that has been abandoned or forgotten, with one simple transaction–the bad code offset.

Grants by The Alliance for Code Excellence

The $500 Good Code Grant (December 13, 2009)

Free and open source software development represents one of the elemental forces driving the way towards global code excellence. Accelerating that developmental process is paramount. The Good Code Grant is one such tool that provides essential financial nutrients to the inception and proliferation of these worthwhile development endeavors as we race for code sustainability and excellence.

Developers labor tirelessly for themselves, their profession and their employers while yearning for a brighter, bug free code base. Inspired by that future vision, many of them have also embarked on the noble path of innovation. Here they sacrifice their free time and precious resources creating software projects that literally change our world as developers and humans. These exemplary heroes of the worldwide code base pour their own blood, sweat and dollars into their struggle against the dark forces of bad code. The Good Code Grant represents a small, but meaningful gesture that will help them defray some of the real costs incurred as they strive in their quest.

The Alliance for Code Excellence wants to help in its own small way. The $500 Good Code Grant could provide the one small spark that might ignite some bright idea gnawing at some developer somewhere. That idea, once enabled, could shine the light of code excellence around the worldwide code base.

Tell us about your current free and open source project or your idea for a new free and open source project. Be sure to describe how your idea or project decreases the propagation of bad code as it increases the excellence of the worldwide code base. Finally, let us know how you think that $500 grant will help your project blossom as it aligns with our vision for the future.

We will then consider and evaluate your submission with the respect to the objectives and goals of The Alliance for Code Excellence and select projects of sufficient merit and commitment to eradicating bad code and promoting excellence and sustainability.

Good luck and good coding!