Elastic Contributor Program FAQ

No, as this is an Elastic program, all the submissions must be centered on Elastic products and solutions. Non-Elastic products and other topics will not qualify for the Contributor Program for any category.

The Elastic Community team and other contributors in the program will be validating each submission before points are awarded. Each contribution must be validated by the Elastic team or by 3 (three) different community members. You will not be allowed to validate your own submission and you can validate each contribution only once. For more guidance see how to validate a contribution.

When you set up your profile you can indicate the languages in which you are proficient. You will have access to contributions made in the same language(s) as you set on your profile. If you speak more than one language, you may validate contributions in multiple languages.

Yes! If you present the same presentation at different events to different audiences, you can submit each presentation as a separate contribution. If you present the same content multiple times during one event (to different audiences at different times, for example), you may also submit each presentation separately.

No, a video series will only count as a single submission. Please link to the playlist when you are submitting your contribution, not the individual videos.

Yes! You can submit code contributions that are done to other repositories, as long as they use one or more Elastic technologies.

Contributions to the Elastic Security community are very welcome. Please take a look at this blog post to learn how you can make security contributions.

You can visit the Elastic GitHub repository, and follow the contributing guidelines developed by the Elastic engineering team.

If you have worked on a project or have done a demo with one or more technologies of the Elastic Stack, you can submit them to the Elastic Contributor Program. On the rules page you'll find the requirements for both "demo" and "project" contributions.

Creating a link on discuss.elastic.co:

• Click on the link icon to generate a URL for your answer, use this URL for your submission

Creating a link on Stack Overflow:

• Click on "Share a link to this answer" to generate a URL for your answer, use this URL for your submission

No, you can only submit one answer per technical question. Multiple answers on the same question will be declined.

Only if the duplicate question was not answered. If the duplicate question was already answered your submission will be declined.

No, points will be reset annually after each submission period.

If you submit a presentation you can earn one additional point by uploading the slide deck used in your presentation. The slide deck must be shared to a publicly accessible website. You can earn one extra point on your written content contribution by sharing your article or blog post via social media. Just upload a link to your post or tweet. While we encourage you to share your content across as many platforms as you’d like, you can only earn one additional point for sharing your content on social media.

You can ear bonus points in different ways. Every time you make contributions under at least five different contribution types, you'll earn 6 bonus points.

For example: if you submit a video, code, technical Q&A, presentation and written content, on top of the points from each submission, you'll earn 6 bonus points. We want to encourage contributors to explore multiple contribution types and become experts on Elastic.

Or if you make at least three Submissions for Elastic Solutions (Security, Observability, or Search) other than Elastic Stack. It doesn't have to be one submission for each Solution; for example, you could make two Submissions for Security and one for Observability. All three Submissions must be validated before you receive the points. You'll get 6 points per group of contributions.

If you'd like to invite someone to join the program, you can refer them through the portal and earn points. You need to log in to the portal through your account, go to the "Refer Contributor" tab on the menu and add their email address. Once the referred person makes their first valid contribution, using the same email address as the one you entered in the "Refer Contributor" tab, you will score six points. They can submit any type of contribution — except contribution validation — for you to score the points but you'll score the points only once per valid referral.

No, they will not. You'll need to let them know you have successfully referred them through the portal and ask them to create their profile. It's important they use the same email address as the one used on the referral otherwise you won't get the points.

Once they make their first valid contribution, you'll get a notification when you log in to the portal. No action is needed from you as the points will be automatically granted.

Each of the three regions will award the top 10 contributors. The top 2 contributors will be awarded Elastic Gold, the following 3 contributors will be Elastic Silver, and the remaining 5 contributors will be Elastic Bronze. In the event there are fewer than ten (10) contributors in a region, winners in each tier will be decided at Elastic’s sole discretion.

No, winners will not be able to exchange their prizes.

Mistakes happen! If you believe your contribution was incorrectly declined during the validation process, you can contest it and explain to us why your submission should be accepted. If you have further problems, let us know at contributors@elastic.co.

Yes! You will need to submit one contribution per category. In this case, one for “Event Organization” and one for “Presentation.”

Yes! You will need to submit one contribution per category. In this case, one for “Video Recordings” and one for “Written Content.”

Yes, as long as you demonstrate how you use the product —and it is not an advertisement.

It depends. If you helped write an article, for example, as long as your name is listed as a co-author you can submit it, too. Plagiarized contributions will not be tolerated and will result in removal from the program.

There is not a limit on the total number of contributions you can make, however, we do limit the number of daily contributions a contributor can submit for validation on the portal to a maximum of 10. We believe this will encourage contributors to not submit a large amount of contributions all at once, which may lead to an unfair and inaccurate leaderboard.

Yes. Once you're logged in the portal, you'll have access to the list of all the participants per region and you'll be able to see all of their validated contributions as well.

Prizes and awards are given to individuals, however we’d love for companies and organizations to encourage their employees or members to participate!

Dates will be announced after the end of this year's competition.

Do you have any other questions about the program?
Send an email to contributors@elastic.co