@Martijn - I work at Atlassian and was one of the organizers of the campaign. Thanks for your *awesome* entry and I appreciate your critiques below. :)
We did think about the problem of the community vote favoring the early entries. Our rationale for having submissions and entries end at the same time included a couple factors: * Timing: Due to internal timing constraints we knew the 4 week contest was going to bump up against Thanksgiving, where a lot of US-based participants would be out of town. * Inevitability: Even a week or two extra could be too little to overcome an early leader. So, like any community vote (e.g. http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/ Moot's gaming of the Time Poll ), it's often an imperfect balance. * Non-voting categories: We made the community prize the least significant and included two other judge-ranked categories to incentivize entrants and reduce the impact of community voting / timing. * Simplicity: We felt that entrants would most excited about sharing their entry when they submitted it, and for those not interested in a vote rush, it could've dragged out the campaign. As for how it ended up - the winner of the community award Walle-D entered the contest about halfway through and upset early favorite Willow Creek (who had a two week head-start). So the simultaneous deadline didn't end up being a impossible barrier. That all said, we're listening to everyone's feedback and promise to do a better job next time. Feel free to hit me up @ jlambe at atlassian dot com with any other thoughts. P.S. It doesn't look like you filled out the https://atlassian.wufoo.com/forms/the-ultimate-wallboard-tshirt/ Ultimate Wallboard t-shirt form - I'd be willing to let you enter late if you want a shirt - but you'll have to hustle and get it in today! -- View this message in context: http://apache-wicket.1842946.n4.nabble.com/Announcing-the-Topicus-Dashboard-tp3058300p3092976.html Sent from the Users forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
