[Bf-committers] Suzanne Award!

Ton Roosendaal bf-committers@blender.org
Mon, 8 Sep 2003 11:52:33 +0200


Hi,

Of course shipped to the winner in a nice box! :)

-Ton-


On Monday, Sep 8, 2003, at 06:02 Europe/Amsterdam, Nathan Vegdahl wrote:

> How will awards for people who are unable to attend the conference be  
> dealt
> with?
>
> --Nathan "Cessen" Vegdahl
>
> --- Ton Roosendaal <ton@blender.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> WP will make a funny statue model of our beloved monkey, Suzanne. I
>> have tips where it can be milled quite cheap. So we got a real prize!
>>
>> The idea is to end the conference sunday with 3 or 4 Suzanne Awards,
>> with also an award for the developers out there!
>>
>> Now there are 2 ways we can reward coding work:
>> - in general, for the contributions someone did last year
>> - based at a single feature, or project
>>
>> I tend slightly to the latter. It then will be an award for "Best
>> Feature". Fits nicely in the row of "Best Art" and "Best Animation".
>> And of course it only applies for the work done in the previous year.
>>
>> The idea is to preselect nominations first, and have the conference
>> attendees do the final vote. For the art program a couple of people
>> (Bart, me, whoever shows up) will do a pre-selection and official
>> nominations.
>> How to do this for 'best feature'?
>>
>> We could do it at the blender.org site, with a poll (after collecting
>> 30-40 or so ourselves). Any more ideas, comments?
>>
>> -Ton-
>>
>> (BTW, official BF dudes are excluded from the awards. ;-)
>>
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