So, after contacting Bob Wise via Linked In (as he graciously invited readers of his blog post to do!), I constructed a concise but hopefully persuasive email about why they might want to sponsor me, to eventually successfully get this form response...

> Thank you for reaching out to ospo-heroku-credits@salesforce.com in reference to requesting Heroku Credits for qualified and selected Open Source Programs.

> We are in the process of finalizing the selection criteria and will contact you when we are ready to start the process; we anticipate this as no later than Dreamforce.

> In the meantime, should you have any questions or feedback, please do not hesitate to contact us via the above email address.

["above email address" not sure what it means, the email was sent from a personal email address, which i won't share on HN]

So... not yet, in fact!

I had to look up what/when is "Dreamforce", looks like Sep 20-22.