Celebrate 5 years of building open source code together by using 2022 GSoC funds to design, print, & deliver Orcasound t-shirts to Hacker Hall of Fame members.
Back in 2017 when Ty suggested we run the Kickstarter to fund the development of our first open source code by Paul and Skander, we created a cool t-shirt to celebrate our new organizational facet. Before we were just a physical network of underwater microphones. In 2018, Paul and Skander introduced us to Github and we started to become a community of open source software and hardware designers, developers, and users. With Liam's help and the services of Sanctuary Screen Printing, a non-profit that engages Seattle homeless youth in shirt design & production, we ended up with these black-and-white t-shirts:
5 years later, we have a growing cadre of volunteers who deserve recognition for all the hours they've given to Orcasound and our mission of building innovative tech to help recover the endangered Southern Resident killer whales. The most dedicated of these volunteers have been listed on our project pages and in the Orcasound Hacker Hall of Fame, but it's time offer a small token of appreciation to everyone who has worked to keep the hydrophones streaming open data and engaged in user-centered design and development of new, open source, free tools for the science of bioacoustics and the conservation of soniferous species.
We'll fund this project with the $2,000 in organizational support from the 2022 Google Summer of Code program with Orcasound. The shirts will be designed for free by Liam, and with the Orcasound GSoC mentors in mind -- folks who have donated their time and passion to teach and support open source contributors over the past 3 summers. Our goal will be to produce at least enough shirts to distribute one to each member of the Hacker Hall of Fame (as of June, 2023). With luck we'll have a bunch left over for future community members!
