Sounds great! So is it just that you're a relatively small company that can decide to give back just because the people it's made up of think it's the right thing to do?

With 12.000 employees worldwide I wouldn‘t say that Vorwerk is exactly small. ;) Yet, we are a family-owned company which takes pride in - as the marketing slogan said it - „putting a stubborn committment to the highest quality“. As we strive for long-term customer relationship by looking to build reliable, high-quality products, me and my colleagues value the work of the giants whose shoulders we‘re standing on - namely the open-source community. And we‘re lucky to have the backing and trust of our management team that giving back pays off for us and our customers in the long run.

I would certainly not call that small! I guess the fact that it's privately owned is then what made it possible. Good for you, sounds like a great place to work :)