Dear Community,

We're going to experiment with a change in how we allocate our internal bandwidth for the next 3 months to deliver better documentation, quant alpha research, and more datasets, but we need your help to make it happen. 

Currently, we have 3.5 FTE quants on the team, with roughly 2.5 of them working on completely free community support. It is a pretty big load on our team. We're going to reduce this down to 0.5 to handle critical issues and rely on you, the awesome community who is the core of QC, to help us support the new quants learning the ropes. 

We heard your critical feedback on the documentation and have been working for almost a year on docs-v2. The freed-up time will let us finish docs-v2 this year, publish more new datasets to create better strategies, and create high-quality quant research projects based on Alpha Streams. 

These projects should improve the QuantConnect/LEAN community as a whole. To thank you for giving to others, we'll generously disperse cloud credit for your time. If you're able to commit 5-10 hours a week helping others in the community and have a solid working knowledge of the API, we'd love to make you a “Community Ambassadors” and give you free QuantConnect cloud credit. We're making 2 levels of ambassadors based on the engagement and how helpful you are to others:

  • Silver: Up to $200/mo credit.
  • Gold: Up to $400/mo credit.

If you're interested in participating, send me a DM in Discord.  

The community is growing beyond what we can support 1-1, which is fantastic, but we'll need to change how we work to make it sustainable. 

Best,
Jared