[peterska2]

My $0.02

Most coders own owned licences so your suggestion of something like a free licence for a year is totaly impractical as few coders will actually make any use of this.

Also, the number of Advanced and Master coders seems to have rocketed recently (or maybe that's my imagination) so it would cost quite a lot to set that up.

However, back in the days when things like HOTM was first starting out the following applied:

Originally Posted by Sinecure

The winner receives the pride and joy of knowing your peers like you. You also a get a ?Winner? button beside your name, which signifies you have been hacker of the month. You will continue to have this forever. You will also be able to post a banner or button on your website so everyone knows you were ?Hacker of the Month?.

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I'd be quite happy with something like this applying again. You get recognition more visably here and you can put a little something on your site too.

The other thing is that sometimes you can get a fantastic hack from a coder (not advanced or master) and there are other coders who do pretty specific stuff that only gets a handful of installs but they churn out lots of releases. These types of coders are unlikely to make it to the advanced coder level for a rather long time but also deserve recognition in some form or other.



So I guess my answer is:

Maybe, maybe not. But if something is proposed then somehow linking it with HOTM would be worth looking into.


[high]* peterska2 doesn't vote as I'm sorta on the fence.[/high]