I assume the voting system is optional preferential rather than first past the post - it's the only true voting system!

will not occur in the forums like the nominations, but will also be mz members only.

Screw the fine print. I nominate Chris Nelson and mozillaZine for the Old Dirty Keyboard award as well as any yet unannounced awards having to to with plain kickin' ass on the Mozilla advocacy front. Chris, you rock!

Asa

(you know it -- posted with Mozilla)

1. Masta Codah: m_kato@ga2.so-net.ne.jp The great m_kato checked in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean input method editor feature enabling users all language versions of Windows to input in these languagesvia MS Global IME.

2. Inspectah Doc: Ryuzi Kambe, Japanese MozillaZine maintainer. Truly great service and many other evangelical works ryuzi has done is worth a prize. kambe@po.across.or.jp

3. ODK: The entire Japanese localization team who has been localicalizing Mozilla since M9. Yuta Taniguchi <rwreki24@cypress.ne.jp> Ryoichi Furukawa <oliver@1000cp.com> Kazu Yamamoto <progre@tky2.3web.ne.jp>

These people have made incredible contributions.

Methodical Man: zach@math.berkeley.edu

Gerv

I only know him by bruce, but he is by far the most important person with regard to memory leaks, and other "minor" problems, that some people did not care about. Ghostbug Killah

I nominate asa for "Methodical Man/Woman" (for excellence in Mozilla testing). He has taken over the browser general bugs and also helps out with new people that are "iffy" about how to report a bug and come to #mozillazine. He is extreamly helpful in #mozillazine for other questions, problems ect...

[This was mistakenly posted as a reply to some msg. It deserves better and so is reposted at the top level.]

ODK category:

Henrik Lynggaard: Danish Localization guru, bug filer, active discussant and contributor on Mozilla-l10n newsgroup.

To top all of this, he has contributed a great Localization Tool (GUI-based localization and leveraging tool) which can be used for both 1-byte languagtes and 2-byte languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean thus benefitting many localization project volnteers. This tool is updated regularly to make it better.

I would like to nominate sidr@albedo.net in the categorys "Methodical Man/Woman" and "Ol' Dirty Keyboard" for tremendously helping in commenting on bugs, simplifing them and contributing test cases.

Richard H. Pizzarro wrote comprehensive code documentation for libmime, the part of Mailnews he maintains. Although a bit dated now, it is very helpful in understanding this "idiosyncratic" object system.

http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/libmime-description.html http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/libmime-content-type-handlers.html

I nominate Matt Thomas for Usability Weenie. He has been a strong proponent for usability on n.p.m.UI, and has repeatedly followed through on Bugzilla. He has proposed several design layouts, and drafted a menu spec. A real standout!

In the Methodical Man and Ol' Dirty Keyboard categories, I nominate Ian Hickson and David Baron for their lifetime achievements on the Style System.

I nominate leaf and Pavlov. They've done countless things for the project.

cbegle@mozilla.org designed and constructed a bug reporting tool for the masses (with a really cool simple search form for querying bugzilla). Her Bug Helper can be found at http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/bug-form.html Her contributions to better bug reporting can also be found in the excellent "Help Mozilla Performance" how-to on submitting performacne related bugs which can be found at http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/performance.html And finally and of great matter to me and many others, Christine has been a leader in the effort to get people involved in testing and bugwork by making them feel like valuable contributers to the project.

This last part is about attitude more than anything and I'd like it branched into a new award with cbegle as one of my nominees and Seth Speitzer (sspitzer@netscape.com)as the other. This catagory could be called something like "S/He Gets It - Best Open Source Attitude from a Netscape paid employee" Making 3rd parties feel welcome takes time and effort. I believe it will play a great part in Mozilla's success and would like to see those who "Get It" be rewarded.

Asa

cbegle@mozilla.org designed and constructed a bug reporting tool for the masses (with a really cool simple search form for querying bugzilla). Her Bug Helper can be found at http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/bug-form.html Her contributions to better bug reporting can also be found in the excellent "Help Mozilla Performance" how-to on submitting performacne related bugs which can be found at http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/performance.html And finally and of great matter to me and many others, Christine has been a leader in the effort to get people involved in testing and bugwork by making them feel like valuable contributers to the project.

This last part is about attitude more than anything and I'd like it branched into a new award with cbegle as one of my nominees and Seth Speitzer (sspitzer@netscape.com)as the other. This catagory could be called something like "S/He Gets It - Best Open Source Attitude from a Netscape paid employee" Making 3rd parties feel welcome takes time and effort. I believe it will play a great part in Mozilla's success and would like to see those who "Get It" be rewarded.

Asa

I nominate rbs@maths.uq.edu.au (Roger B. Sidje) as "Masta Codah" for his mathml work.

I nominate Keith Visco <kvisco@ziplink.net> as "Masta Codah" for his work on the XSLT integration into mozilla. Not much visible yet, but that will hopefully change soon.

I nominate both Warren Harris and Rick Potts as "Masta Codah" and "Inspectah Doc" for their kicking ass design/implementation of the new network library "Necko".

I nominate Adam Lock for Masta Codah for his Mozilla ActiveX Control work.

I would like to nominate Tao cheng for the "Gets it" category, for his effort of making all the l10n people welcome

I'd like to nominate Pete Collins for his early work on the script editor, his contributions to the newsgroups, his chrome work and well, just for being Pete.

For doing the heavy lifting in moving Mozilla from a proprietary build system to autoconf.

I'd like to nominate Jeff Tsai (jefft) for Ghostbug Killah. His bug fixes in MailNews, especially interoperability and namespace issues for IMAP handling, have made Mozilla Mail usable for me.

I'd like to nominate bryner@uiuc.edu and ben@netscape.com.

bryner, for his mousewheel work and his finger protocol work.

ben, rewrote the profile UI while he was still a student in NZ.

cls, for his autoconf work. building 5.0 is a dream, where building 4.x was a nightmare.

I'd like to nominate Troy Chevalier (troy@netscape.com), Vidur Apparao (vidur@netscape.com) and Michael Lowe (michael.lowe@bigfoot.com) as Ghostbug Killah for their work on incremental reflow (performance) - see bug 17325.

For Inspectah Doc, I'd like to nominate Tao Cheng (tao@netscape.com) for maintaining the MLP (Mozilla Localization Project) page http://www.mozilla.org/projects/intl/xul-how2l10n.html, icluding l10n contributors, downloads, and a HowTo.

My Mastah Codah nominees are Dave Hyatt (hyatt@netscape.com) for his UI work (don't expect a list) as well as Ben Goodger (ben@netscape.com), and Pete Collins (pete@alphanumerica.com) for the Aphrodite (aka OpenSourceUI) work.

Finally, I'd like to nominate Henrik Lynggard (Lynggaard@netscape.net), the norwegian L10n contributor and MozillaTranslator maker and Ryoichi Furukawa (oliver@1000cp.com) as a placeholder for the whole Japanese L10n team, both for their L10n work. Henrik and the Japanese guys are probably the most active of the MLP contributors.

I'd nominate all L10n contributors for ODK if that wouldn't result in a very, very long list.... So I left the most important and most active ones...

I say prizes should be something like free stock in Netscape!!! I think we deserve more than wu-tang names for all this hard work!!!

** Methodical Man/Woman ** mlefevre, timeless: these two have been a long time QA, each having resolved 1000+ bugs as invalid/worksforme/duplicate/fixed, many testcases, and other QA contributors. They are also two of the finest community members: friendly to others, receptive to ideas, and helpful for other new and old contributors Boris Zbarsky (bz) & gerv: some of you might know them as a developer and the licensing dude, but I'm nonimating them for being great QA community leaders. Despite their busy schedule, they are not shy in showing appreciation and they assist new QAs get in the program. Without these two, I'd never have stay this far.

** Inspectah Doc ** R. J. Keller: If he does not deserve this award, I don't know who else does. When Netscape fired most of their Mozilla staff, they also fired every one involved in the Help files. A few contributors attempted to pick up the slack, but due to lack of reviews, the project didn't go anywhere until R. J. Keller came. Without him, the Mozilla Help would still be outdated, and there will be no Firefox Help viewer/documentation and Thunderbird Help.

Gunnar Jurdzik: the owner of the unofficial Mozilla FAQ site. Besides the great help he has provided (through Web site, e-mail, and newsgroups), his site's ad program has also allowed him to donate $$ to m.o. (Gunnar, if this is confidential, sorry)

raiph: the "press" guy of sfx, one of the most active member when m.o. finally began thinking about marketing with the marketing-public mailing list, and one of the writers of the Mozilla 1.0 FAQ.

Jay Garcia: formally Netscape Champion, and now a Mozilla Champion. Owner of the Unofficial Netscape FAQ page. One of the most helpful guys I know of in our Mozilla newsgroups.

David Tenser: creator of the Firefox and Thunderbird Help sites.

** Ol' Dirty Keyboard (ODK) **

bz & gerv

Tristan Nitot: founder of Mozilla Europe

Jesse Ruderman: owner of the Burning Edge, a very helpful site for our testers. He has filed 100+ security bug reports, and his sites also contain many helpful user documentation.

and I would also like to nominate everyone involved in the creation of mozdev.org and MozillaZine. Without you guys, we will never be here :-)