[chriskelley]

I'm interested to know where ideas like this originate within the company. Outreach like this is great for their brand within the dev world, though this may be more altruistic than CTF (semi-recruitment tool). There's no question that both initiatives are clever enough to make one wonder how they come to life internally. Love the idea(s)!

[jorgeortiz85]

We have an internal mailing list called "Crazy Ideas". No idea is too crazy.

Greg emailed the list two weeks ago with a proposal for the open-source retreat. The reaction internally was quite positive. He polled open-source maintainers externally to see whether this was something they'd be interested in. The reaction externally was quite positive too.

Greg hammered out the details and shipped it.

[droopyEyelids]

This idea has been making me smile for like the past 40 seconds.

[mkal_tsr]

And that's how you do it, well done Stripe! Glad to know that the money they received from me through their API use is being well used and having a positive effect :-)

[chriskelley]

That's awesome, sounds like a fantastic company culture. Thanks for the info.

[francesca]

You guys are so fantastic. this is awesome and it's great to see companies embracing open source!