Google Open Source Peer Bonus winner

I am pleased to announce that I am one of the 2017 "Google Open Source Peer Bonus winners" for my work on pcsc-lite and the CCID driver.

The latest round of Google Open Source Peer Bonus winners


Monday, March 27, 2017
Google relies on open source software throughout our systems, much of it written by non-Googlers. We’re always looking for ways to say “thank you!” so 5 years ago we started asking Googlers to nominate open source contributors outside of the company who have made significant contributions to codebases we use or think are important. We’ve recognized more than 500 developers from 30+ countries who have contributed their time and talent to over 400 open source projects since the program’s inception in 2011. Today we are pleased to announce the latest round of awardees, 52 individuals we’d like to recognize for their dedication to open source communities. The following is a list of everyone who gave us permission to thank them publicly:
Name Project Name Project
Philipp Hancke Adapter.js Fernando Perez Jupyter & IPython
Geoff Greer Ag Michelle Noorali Kubernetes & Helm
Dzmitry Shylovich Angular Prosper Otemuyiwa Laravel Hackathon Starter
David Kalnischkies Apt Keith Busch Linux kernel
Peter Mounce Bazel Thomas Caswell matplotlib
Yuki Yugui Sonoda Bazel Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa nghttp2
Eric Fiselier benchmark Anna Henningsen Node.js
Rob Stradling Certificate Transparency Charles Harris NumPy
Ke He Chromium Jeff Reback pandas
Daniel Micay CopperheadOS Ludovic Rousseau PCSC-Lite, CCID
Nico Huber coreboot Matti Picus PyPy
Kyösti Mälkki coreboot Salvatore Sanfilippo Redis
Jana Moudrá Dart Ralf Gommers SciPy
John Wiegley Emacs Kevin O'Connor SeaBIOS
Alex Saveau FirebaseUI-Android Sam Aaron Sonic Pi
Toke Hoiland-Jorgensen Flent Michael Tyson The Amazing Audio Engine
Hanno Böck Fuzzing Project Rob Landley Toybox
Luca Milanesio Gerrit Bin Meng U-Boot
Daniel Theophanes Go programming language Ben Noordhuis V8
Josh Snyder Go programming language Fatih Arslan vim-go
Brendan Tracey Go programming language Adam Treat WebKit
Elias Naur Go on Mobile Chris Dumez WebKit
Anthonios Partheniou Google Cloud Datalab Sean Larkin Webpack
Marcus Meissner gPhoto2 Tobias Koppers Webpack
Matt Butcher Helm Alexis La Goutte Wireshark dissector for QUIC
Congratulations to all of the awardees, past and present! Thank you for your contributions.
By Helen Hu, Open Source Programs Office

The bonus (I should receive) is a credit card with 250$.

That is not much compared to Google annual profit. Google operating profit for 2016 was 30 419 M$.
My bonus part is 250 / 30 419 000 000 = 0.000 000 008 218 548.

That is not much for Google, but this is twice the amount I received in bitcoin for now ("How to help my projects? Send me bitcoins!").