The folks over at SugarCRM are hosting a contest to incent developers to make further extensions to their open-source CRM platform. According to the story in NewsForge, the project is offering:
- $500 for the best theme template
- $1,000 for the best business and productivity module
- $1,000 for the most innovative module.
As SugarCRM battles it out with Salesforce.com (which recently launched AppExchange with much hoo-ha), these kinds of activities are a great incentive to enable the community to extend the offerings and tailor them to their own needs. (Sugar currently claims nearly 2,000 developers, up from 900 just month in September, 2005.)