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10 July 2007
The annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards, known as The Hippos, recognize excellence in developing the Second Life platform. The awards acknowledge outstanding work on the open source Second Life Viewer.


Dear Second Life Open Source Community Members:
The hippopotamus has long been a kind of unofficial mascot of Second Life. When the Viewer source code was first published in January 2007, the open source community quickly discovered the llhippo.cpp easter egg and claimed the humble hippo as it's own.


We are pleased to announce the inception of the annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards for excellence in developing the Second Life platform. The awards will acknowledge open source contributors who have made the biggest impact on the quality and advancement of the Second Life Viewer.
In August of 2007, Linden Lab [http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/08/25/innovation-award-winners-announced/ announced]] the first Hippo Award honorees: Nicholaz Beresford, Alissa Sabre, Able Whitman, Gigs Taggart and Strife Onizuka.


We are now accepting nominations from the SL open source community for the 2007 Linden Lab Innovation Awards. Judges will include Linden developers and open source team members. Award winners will be announced during the Second Life Community Convention.
The 2008 Hippo Awards call for nominations will be posted to the [http://blog.secondlife.com/ Second Life Blog] in early summer. Stay tuned.
 
How It Works
 
1. Nominations <br>
If you would like to nominate an open source developer or open source community contributor, then
* sign in to the Issue Tracker and add the person's Second Life avatar name as a subtask to the appropriate category (below), and
* write a comment about what their contribution was and why you find it to be exemplary.
Linden Lab employees and family members are not eligible. <br>
Nominations are open from now through 22 July 2007 23:59 PDT.
 
This year's categories are:
*Contributor of the Year  [https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-392 MISC-392]
*Best Contribution  [https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-393 MISC-393]
*Best Feature  [https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-394 MISC-394]
*Best Bug Hunter  [https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-395 MISC-395]
*Best Community Organizer  [https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-396 MISC-396]
 
2. Judging <br>
Judges will be announced separately and will include Linden developers and open source team members. <br>
These are juried awards, and they will be awarded based on a set of criteria and point system used by the judges. <br>
A note about voting: JIRA has this nifty voting feature. You are welcome to vote for nominees you believe have merit. However, winners will not be selected by popular vote but through the juried process above.
 
3. Awards <br>
Award winners will be announced in Second Life and during the Second Life Community Convention, held August 24-26 in Chicago, IL [http://slcc2007.wordpress.com/]. A later announcement will give the date, time, and location of this event. <br>
The Contributor of the Year will receive a MacBook Pro.
 
 
We appreciate all the contributions of the Second Life open source community, and we'll be listening to your feedback and recommendations for improving the awards program for next year. Please add constructive comments to the Discussion tab of this wiki page.  Any questions, post them to sldev@lists.secondlife.com or email liana@lindenlab.com.
 
Thanks, <br>
Liana


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The Linden Lab Innovation Awards are for entertainment purposes only and have no monetary or other value.


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Revision as of 19:32, 30 April 2008

The annual Linden Lab Innovation Awards, known as The Hippos, recognize excellence in developing the Second Life platform. The awards acknowledge outstanding work on the open source Second Life Viewer.

The hippopotamus has long been a kind of unofficial mascot of Second Life. When the Viewer source code was first published in January 2007, the open source community quickly discovered the llhippo.cpp easter egg and claimed the humble hippo as it's own.

In August of 2007, Linden Lab announced] the first Hippo Award honorees: Nicholaz Beresford, Alissa Sabre, Able Whitman, Gigs Taggart and Strife Onizuka.

The 2008 Hippo Awards call for nominations will be posted to the Second Life Blog in early summer. Stay tuned.

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The Linden Lab Innovation Awards are for entertainment purposes only and have no monetary or other value.

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