16th of April – Judgment Day for the Trees for Bugs Initiative
We are going to plant 45 trees for bugs found in the latest version of Kentico CMS (plus 255 extra just because we like it :)
As previously mentioned, we plant
a tree for every bug found in every latest version of Kentico CMS. We plant these trees twice a year – in spring and in autumn. Trees for all bugs submitted prior to the spring date will be planted on this date and all trees for bugs submitted after the spring date will be planted in autumn.
There were
45 bugs found in the 5.5R2 version since its release date (December 13, 2010) until 4.04.2011, which was the deadline for trees that will be planted in spring 2011. As mentioned above, all other bugs that will be found after the spring deadline (04.04.2011) will be planted on the autumn date (late October 2011). This means that no matter the day during the year, if you find a bug in the latest version of Kentico
CMS you will get a tree planted - either in spring or autumn (whichever is sooner).
We are going to plant these 45 trees this Saturday, 16th of April.
The Environmental Partnership Foundation chose a project in the village of
Novosedly, where we are going
to plant about 300 trees (this means that we got 255 extra!). About 50 of us are planning to hop on a Kentico bus, which will drive us from our headquarters straight to the village, which is – just by coincidence - in the heart of one of the best
Moravian vineyards. :)
The bug-hunters who are eligible for tree(s) were already contacted by email and most of them agreed to having the tree planted in their name, while some decided to dedicate the tree to their daughters, colleagues or wives. One of the bug-hunters, Ben from
Decision Resources, had an interesting suggestion – to start a similar initiative in his company: “Hives for Bugs”. That will really nicely complement our
Trees for Bugs initiative…
Our bus is booked, labels printed, spades and shovels borrowed, weather ordered – and we ourselves are ready!
The last open question is how to persuade the local tax office that a software development company needs 50 pieces of utility gloves. :)
Design of the labels got slightly changed:
