Qafoo GmbH - passion for software quality
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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Wed, 04 Feb 2015 13:23:29 +0100
:Revision: 		8
:Copyright:		All rights reserved


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Qafoo Supporties
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:Description:
    Qafoo Supporty, the developer headgear to be worn with proud because you're
    doing the right thing.
:Keywords:
    qafoo, supporty, hat, build breaker, developer, headgear
:Abstract:
    Development teams use various kinds of headgear in their processes. Some
    have a "hat of shame" or even pink bunny ears, the breaker of a build needs
    to wear (and is posted on Facebook). We at Qafoo have the tradition of
    wearing the symbolic "pink sombrero" when hacking something in production.

    The purpose of such headgear is as multifarious as its incarnations. Some
    should just be funny, some remind you that what you are doing should not be
    done and others seduce your co-workers to blame you.

    This background raised the idea for our *Qafoo Supporty*, a cap that
    developers can wear with pride: to show that there is something good going
    on, to indicate that disturbing them right now can interrupt something very
    sensible and to keep the important developer brain warm in in winter.

Development teams use various kinds of headgear in their processes. Some have
a "hat of shame" or even pink bunny ears, the breaker of a build needs to
wear (and is posted on Facebook). We at Qafoo have the tradition of wearing the
symbolic "pink sombrero" when hacking something in production.

The purpose of such headgear is as multifarious as its incarnations. Some
should just be funny, some remind you that what you are doing should not be
done and others seduce your co-workers to blame you.

This background raised the idea for our *Qafoo Supporty*, a cap that developers
can wear with pride: to show that there is something good going on, to
indicate that disturbing them right now can interrupt something very sensible
and to keep the important developer brain warm in in winter.

Three incarnations of the *Qafoo Supporty* exist:

- *Don't disturb - Refactoring in progress*
- *Caution! Emerging Architecture*
- *Stand back, I'm going to try testing*

We sent out quite a bunch of them for our customers, partners and friends for
Christmas 2014 and we will continue to bring them to conferences, usergroups
and customers this winter.

If you, your usergroup, team or friends don't have Qafoo Supporties yet, just
*tweet why you would like to have some* and mention @qafoo at the end of your
tweet. We will raffle and send out some more of them before March 1st.

With this in mind we wish all of you a successful year 2015 full of
awesomeness!

Proud Qafoo Supporty Wearers
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… to be continued.

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