I agree that disseminating your results is important. However, in computer science at least, "publication" in academic community is applied very narrowly. I thi

I agree that disseminating your results is important. However, in computer science at least, "publication" in academic community is applied very narrowly. I think incentive needs to be given for "dissemination of useful knowledge and artifacts" rather than only "publications". You open-sourced your source code? Sorry, source code is not a publication. You improved your source code so that it is less buggy and acutally usable by industry? Sorry not a publication. You want to travel to PyCon to actually talk about your work to a wider audience? Sorry no travel funding available for such "non-academic" conferences. You want to cite an open-source work that did innovative work but not in academic setting? Sorry that is not a good enough citation ("who is this _why anyway?"), please include more citations of "academic" papers. Funding incentive is only there for publishing your results but less incentive is there for building of useful working systems.