--- title: Celebrate Open Source Day with Gravitons | daily.dev description: A company shares how it created custom holidays like Zero Gravity Day, Analog Day, Reboot Day, and Open Source Day to boost employee mental health during the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/celebrate-open-source-day-with-gravitons-htumeaizd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Celebrate Open Source Day with Gravitons | daily.dev og:description: A company shares how it created custom holidays like Zero Gravity Day, Analog Day, Reboot Day, and Open Source Day to boost employee mental health during the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/celebrate-open-source-day-with-gravitons-htumeaizd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/htuMeaiZd.png og:image:alt: Celebrate Open Source Day with Gravitons og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Celebrate Open Source Day with Gravitons **[Teleport](https://daily.dev/sources/teleport)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A company shares how it created custom holidays like Zero Gravity Day, Analog Day, Reboot Day, and Open Source Day to boost employee mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. The founder reflects personally on how open source software rescued his programming career during the era of Microsoft dominance and explains why the company celebrates International Open Source Day, encouraging others to take a day to explore an open source project. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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