GitLab Heroes: Building GitLab together

GitLab Heroes engages, supports, connects, and recognizes members of the wider GitLab community who make outstanding contributions to GitLab and our community around the globe.

Be a Hero

At GitLab, we believe everyone can contribute. In that spirit, we believe everyone in our community can become a GitLab Hero.

If you are new to GitLab and looking to get started contributing to our community, we have many ways to contribute. You can improve documentation, contribute code, organize a GitLab meetup, give a tech talk, or write a blog post.

If you are active in our community and organizing meetups, recording demos for YouTube, giving talks at conferences and events, writing technical blog posts, or contributing to our open source project, we want to engage, support, and recognize you for your contribution as a GitLab Hero.

Heroes Rewards

Invitations to special events including GitLab Commit
Support for travel to speak about GitLab at events
GitLab Ultimate licenses
Special Heroes swag so people know how awesome you are
Access to GitLab's product, engineering, and developer evangelism teams to help with reviews of talks and blog posts

Attributes of a Hero

Possess a passion for GitLab, DevSecOps, and Open Source software.
Aspire to our mission, uphold our values, and adhere to our Code of Conduct.
Sustained level of contribution to GitLab as a code contributor, community organizer, or thought leader.

The Hero's Journey

GitLab Heroes has three levels progressing from Contributor to Hero to Superhero. Below you will see example contributions and rewards for each level.

Be a Contributor

Contributions

Contribute 5 merged MRs (or one awesome MR!) to improve GitLab - the application, website, or docs
Contribute 5 merged MRs to a project that is part of the GitLab for Open Source program
Organize a GitLab meetup group
Give multiple tech talks about GitLab
Publish 3 blog posts about GitLab
Actively contribute to the GitLab forum and GitLab issues

Rewards