Trees for Bugs initiative

We at Kentico Software have decided to plant a tree for every bug found in the 4.1 version of our product - Kentico CMS for ASP.NET. We also promise to fix all reported bugs within 7 days. The trees will be planted by company employees and management after the end of this initiative in November 2009.

Kentico CMS contains hundreds of features and several built-in modules. Each module is covered by a particular development team, responsible for its correctness. Each team shall plant as many trees as the number of bugs found in its modules. Naturally, the rest of the company (especially testers ;) will help them with it.

All our clients can report bugs through this form, where they can also see the number of currently reported bugs (=trees to be planted).

We are planning to plant at least 100 trees, even though the expected number of reported bugs is much lower. In this situation, only the trees reported by the clients will be planted in their honor and the rest of the trees will be planted in the honor of Kentico developers. Each tree will be marked with a label containing the name of the client who reported the bug as well as the company and country she comes from.

Photos of the trees will be published on this site in December 2009 and will also be sent to the “bug reporters” by e-mail, together with the address of the nearest village or town and the GPS coordinates of their tree.

This initiative is carried out in cooperation with The Czech Environmental Partnership Foundation, which is the leading Czech foundation supporting sustainable development projects throughout all Czech Republic regions. The foundation will choose the appropriate project for Kentico‘s Trees for Bugs initiative. It should be an avenue, a park or a habitat corridor within a range of 150km from Brno, Czech Republic, where the headquarters of Kentico are located.

We think that this initiative represents a win-win situation for everyone, since it ends up with these:

• Both clean web content management solution and air
• Tree planted in honor of a client as a form of compensation for the bug she had to face
• Contribution to the landscape locally and to the atmosphere globally
• Development Team ready to switch from IT to Forestry and backwards anytime ;)

Please feel free to contact us at info@kentico.com if you have any questions on this project.

Your Kentico Team


The timeline for the initiative is as follows:

August 27	Official start of the of Trees for Bugs initiative
September 30	The Czech Environmental Partnership Foundation chooses the project to be sponsored
October 31	Deadline for submitting the bugs for the Trees for Bugs initiative
November	Kentico employees and management plant the trees
December	Photos of the trees published at the micro site and sent by e-mails