In any other situation, trees and bugs would not be a marriage made in heaven. But with the Kentico team planting a tree for every bug found in Kentico Version 4.1, it’s a win-win situation for partners, developers and the environment. And it was all hands on deck. “The participation on the event was voluntary for the employees and of course they didn’t get paid for it, still more than three quarters of the Kentico team took part in it! In addition, some of the employees’ girlfriends came along with us to support our efforts. Since we had more trees then it was needed to plant, we decided to dedicate these extra trees to these girlfriends who helped us,” says Petr Passinger, PR Manager for Kentico.

I’m loving this initiative from Kentico – 41, no 42, no 46 trees to go in so far a number which I am sure I will have to update before we publish this issue (and I did, we’re up to 50 now!).

It’s become a bit of a contest on all fronts, with the in-house Kentico developers competing for who’ll plant the least trees meaning their parts have the least bugs. According to Petr Passingr from Kentico, there’s Mr Bug-Free with only 5 trees to plant and a budding environmentalist that heads up the pack with 13 trees to plant.