Add-ons for Australis Contest – Rules

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Introduction: The objective of this Contest is to encourage development of Firefox Add-ons designed specifically to take advantage of the features of the redesigned Firefox user interface, known as Australis.

Sponsor:  The sponsor of this Contest is Mozilla Corporation, located at 331 E. Evelyn Ave., Mountain View, CA 94041 (“Sponsor”).

Eligibility:  No purchase or fee is necessary to enter or claim any prize.

The Contest is open to individuals who are at least the age of majority in their country of residence. Minors 13 years or older who reside in the U.S. and minors in certain other countries depending on local laws are also eligible to participate in the Contest but will be required to submit a signed parental consent form with their Entry. Email us at ecompton@mozilla.com for a parental consent form.

The Contest is open only to individuals and teams of individuals. It is not open to companies, educational institutions, organizations, etc. or to groups associated with such institutions. Entrants may not enter any Add-ons in which such institution may claim ownership. Teams must pick a team leader, who will submit the team’s Entry and be the sole recipient of any prizes for the team (in other words there is only one prize per winning Entry, not a prize for each member of the team).

The Contest is void in any country subject to a U.S boycott and where prohibited by law or restricted by law or regulations.

Employees and contractors of Sponsor and its parent company, subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, advertising agencies, and the families of and persons living in the same household as such employees, are not eligible to participate.

By entering you agree to be bound by these Official Rules and all decisions of the Sponsor and judges, which are final and binding. The Contest is subject to all applicable laws.

How to Enter: To enter the Contest, create or update your Add-on (“Entry”), submit it to the Mozilla Add-ons website at: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox (“AMO”), and then fill out the entry form linked from AMO, including selecting the judging category to which you are submitting your Entry. You will be required to agree to the Add-on Developer Agreement when you sign up for AMO, if you haven’t already done so. You may submit up to three Entries.

If you are a team of individuals submitting an Entry, the Entry should be submitted under the email account of the team leader. All the individuals on the team should be identified in some way in the description for proper attribution.

You must be the named and authorized account holder of the email address submitted in connection with your Entry. The authorized account holder is the natural person who is assigned to the email address by an internet access provider, online service provider, or other organization that is responsible for assigning email addresses or the domain associated with the submitted email address. Entries submitted will not be returned or acknowledged.

Without limiting any other rights, the Sponsor has the right to, in the Sponsor’s sole discretion, reject or remove from the Contest any Entry that, in the Sponsor’s sole discretion, violates these Rules, any applicable Sponsor policy, any applicable laws, or is in any way harmful or objectionable. Sponsor also reserves the right to disqualify any entrant or Entry at the Sponsor’s sole discretion. No correspondence shall be entered into.

Privacy:  Through your registration on AMO you will select a user name and provide us with your email address. Winners will be asked to provide their names and a mailing address so that we can send them their prizes. All Entries are public on AMO and may be publicized in other locations as well, including the entrants’ user names. Except as otherwise stated herein or as otherwise agreed by you and the Sponsor, all other personal information you provide in connection with the Contest will be used only for purposes relating to this Contest, and will not be communicated to third-parties without prior permission or as otherwise specified in our Privacy Policy located at http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy-policy.html.

Contest Period:  The Contest begins at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST) (8:01 a.m. GMT) on Tuesday, March 11, 2014 and ends at 11:59 p.m. PST on Tuesday, April 15, 2014 (7:59 a.m. GMT on April 16, 2014) (the “Contest Period”). Entries will go through the Add-ons review process throughout and following the Contest Period. Entries must meet AMO requirements (in other words, they must pass “Full Review”) to be eligible. If your Entry does not pass Full Review, you will be given one week to modify your Entry to meet AMO requirements and resubmit it. Category winners will be announced on or about May 15, 2014.

Work Criteria:  All Entries must meet specific criteria to be accepted into the Contest. Without limitation, the following conditions apply: (a) the Entry must qualify for one of the judging categories described below, be submitted to the right category, and meet the category attributes described below; (b) the Entry must be compatible with and function properly with Firefox 29 and Firefox 30 (the first versions that support Australis); (c) the full source code, including that of any binary components, must be made available to Sponsor (upon request); (d) the description of the Entry included in your submission must be clear and accurate; (e) the Entry must be uploaded to the AMO gallery prior to entering it into the Contest; (f) the Entry must comply with all of the Mozilla Add-ons policies posted at https://addons.mozilla.org/pages/policy/; (g) the Entry must be your original work and may not include any unauthorized intellectual property of a third party; (h) the name of your Entry may not include any Mozilla trademarks or portions thereof, except for the inclusion of “for Firefox” at the end of the name; (i) Entries may not be forked versions of existing Add-ons. The Entry must further comply with any additional technical requirements set forth in materials regarding the Contest.

In addition to the foregoing, Entries may not: (i) contain vulgar, offensive, obscene, lewd, or indecent language, behavior or imagery; (ii) defame, libel or otherwise violate the rights of any third party; (iii) violate or facilitate the violation of any federal, state or local laws or ordinances; (iv) target anyone because of his or her membership in a certain social group, including race, gender, color, religion, belief, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, nationality, age, gender identity, or political affiliation, or contain a symbolic representation of any group that targets anyone because of his or her membership in a certain social group; (v) contain any virus, spyware, malware, trap door, worm, or any other device, mechanism or code that is injurious or damaging to software or hardware used in conjunction with the Entry; or (vi) be disparaging or otherwise harm the reputation of the Sponsor as determined by the Sponsor in its sole discretion. Entries that are, in Sponsor’s sole opinion, inappropriate, inconsistent with Sponsor’s image, disparaging or otherwise not in compliance with these Official Rules, may be disqualified.

Sponsor reserves the right to review an Entry before posting it online, and to remove an Entry even after it has been posted. No guarantee is made that any particular Entry will or will not be posted or regarding the length of the review period. Sponsor reserves the right, in its absolute discretion, to determine if any particular Entry is appropriate for posting. Rejected Entries will not be acknowledged or returned. All Entries that are uploaded and made available for viewing by the general public will be deemed posted at the direction of the Entrant within the meaning of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Communications Decency Act.

Selection of Winners: After the Contest Period has ended, all Entries that have passed Full Review will be reviewed and judged by a panel of experts using the criteria described below. The judges will select a first place winner and two runners up in each of the following categories: (a) Best Add-on, (b) Best Complete Theme, and (c) Best Bookmark Add-on. Entrants select the category in which they want their Entry judged on the entry form.

Entries will be judged based on the following criteria, which will be equally weighted:

  • Best Add-on
    • Integration with Australis
    • Usefulness
    • User experience
  • Best Complete Theme
    • Completeness
    • Consistency
    • Creativity
  • Best Bookmark Add-on
    • Usefulness
    • User Experience
    • Performance

The decisions of the judging panel are final on all matters relating to the Contest and no correspondence will be entered into.

Prizes:  All first place winners and runners-up will receive a Firefox OS phone, make and model determined by availability in each winner’s location and at Sponsor’s discretion (approximate retail value of $200). Each first place winner will also receive a Mozilla gear pack (approximate retail value of $30). If a winning Entry was created by a team, only the team leader who submitted the Entry will receive the prize. A prize will not be given to each member of the team. All winning Entries will be featured on AMO.

General Prize Conditions: The winners are solely responsible for the payment of any taxes that may arise as a result of acceptance of a prize, and all other expenses or costs relating to the prize not expressly set forth above (including a wireless service plan). Prizes cannot be transferred or substituted and must be accepted as awarded. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value in its sole discretion. Please note that if the winning Entry was submitted by a team, only one prize will be awarded to the team. A prize will not be given to each member of the team.

Winner Notification/Validation: The winners will be notified by email on or about May 15, 2014. Each potential winner, and all team members if the winning Entry was submitted by a team, may be required to sign and return to Sponsor an affidavit of eligibility and liability/publicity release, where lawful, within five (5) days of the date of winning notification. If any winner is a minor under the laws of his/her place of residence, all documents must be signed by a parent or legal guardian. If a winner cannot be notified within five (5) days after his or her selection, or in the event of non-compliance with any of these requirements, the prize may be forfeited, and another Entry selected as a winner.

Authorization to Use Winner’s Entry Information & Name:  By entering, you agree that Sponsor and its designees may use your name, photo (if provided), screen shots, and basic information about you and your Entry that you submit in any media now known or hereafter developed for promotional and/or publicity purposes, unless prohibited by law. You also agree to participate in and cooperate with any promotional activity and/or publicity relating to the Contest as the Sponsor shall reasonably request from time to time.

Release of Liability:  By participating, you  (meaning each member of a team if a team is submitting the Entry) release the Sponsor and its subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, employees, directors, agents, advertising agencies, and all others associated with the development and execution of this Contest, from and against any and all injury, loss or damage caused or claimed to be caused by your participation in the Contest and/or the acceptance, awarding, receipt, use and/or misuse of the prize, and you agree that these entities are in no way responsible for any warranty, representation, or guarantee, expressed or implied, in fact or in law, relating to the Contest and/or the awarding of any prize except as may be expressly set forth in these Official Rules.

You also agree to hold harmless Sponsor, its officers, directors, employees, divisions, affiliates, subsidiaries, and advertising and promotional agencies, from any claim by any third party relating to any rights in the Entry you submitted.

Representations and Warranties:  By entering, you  (meaning each member of a team if a team is submitting the Entry) represent and warrant that (a) you are the sole and exclusive owner (and free of any adverse claim by any person, firm, or corporation) of all intellectual property rights in and to the Entry (exclusive of Mozilla’s intellectual property rights); (b) the Entry is original and the use of the Entry as described in these Rules will not infringe the proprietary rights, including without limitation the intellectual property rights, of any third party; (c) the use of the Entry, as described in these Rules, will be in compliance with any third-party licenses pertaining to the Entry; (d) the Entry is not obscene or libelous, and does not violate any rights of any third party, including but not limited to rights of privacy or publicity; (e) the Entry does not target anyone because of his or her membership in a certain social group, including race, gender, color, religion, belief, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, nationality, age, gender identity, or political affiliation, and does not contain a symbolic representation of any group that targets anyone because of his or her membership in a certain social group; (f) you have accurately categorized and described the type and nature of the Entry; (g) the Entry does not contain any virus, spyware, malware, trap door, worm, or any other device, mechanism or code that is injurious or damaging to software or hardware used in conjunction with the Entry; (h) the Entry and its use as described in these Rules will not violate any federal, provincial, state or local laws or ordinances; (i) the Entry is consistent with these Rules; and (j) you have the right to grant to Sponsor and its designees the license granted below. By entering you agree to be bound by these Official Rules, including all eligibility requirements and all decisions of Sponsor, which are final and binding in all matters relating to the Contest.

Intellectual Property:  Your Entries shall remain your exclusive property. The code you write is yours. In order to enter the Contest, your Entry must have been uploaded to Mozilla’s AMO gallery. You can make your Entry available under the license of your choosing as further explained on the AMO. We encourage entrants to open source their code, but that is your decision.

Mozilla’s Trademarks:  The names Mozilla and Firefox, as well as the Mozilla logo, Firefox logo, and the red lizard logo are all registered trademarks of the Mozilla Foundation in the U.S. and several other countries. Any use of those or any other Sponsor (or Mozilla Foundation) trademark, trade name or logo must comply with the Mozilla Trademark Policies as posted at http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/.

Disclaimers:  Sponsor is not responsible for: (i) lost, late, misdirected, damaged, garbled or illegible entries; (ii) error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operations or transmission, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alterations of entry materials, or for technical, network, telephone equipment, electronic, computer, hardware or software malfunctions of any kind, or inaccurate transmission of or failure to receive entry information by Sponsor on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any web site or any combination thereof; or (iii) any injury or damage to entrant’s or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participating in the Contest.  Sponsor reserves the right to: (i) permanently disqualify from any Contest it sponsors any person it believes has intentionally violated these Official Rules; and (ii) suspend, modify or terminate the Contest if Sponsor believes, in its sole discretion, that malfunction, error, disruption or damage is impairing or will impair the administration, security, fairness, or integrity of the Contest. If the Contest is terminated before the scheduled end of the Contest Period, the Sponsor will determine the winners from all eligible entries received as of the termination date in a fair and equitable manner as determined by Sponsor in its reasonable discretion. Persons found tampering with or abusing any aspect of the Contest, or whom the Sponsor believes to be causing or attempting or intending to cause any malfunction, error, disruption, or damage will be disqualified. The Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any unauthorized entries or votes, including, without limitation, any entries or votes made through robotic, automatic, mechanical, programmed or similar multiple-entry, or entry/vote duplication, method and to disqualify any person or entity using such a method.

Disputes:  These Official Rules and any disputes relating in any way to the Contest shall be governed exclusively by the laws of the State of California, USA, without regard to principles of conflicts of laws.  By participating, you further agree that: (i) any and all disputes, claims, and causes of action arising out of or in connection with the Contest,  or any prizes awarded, shall be resolved individually without resort to any form of class action; (ii) any claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering the Contest, but in no event attorney’s fees; and (iii) under no circumstances will any entrant be permitted to obtain any award for, and entrant hereby waives all rights to claim, punitive, incidental or consequential damages and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased and any other damages, other than damages for actual out-of-pocket expenses.

Winner’s Names:  For the names of the winners and/or the judges send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to “Add-ons for Australis Contest Winner List”, attn: Add-ons Team, 331 E. Evelyn Ave., Mountain View, CA 94041. Requests must be received (not just postmarked) by December 31, 2014.

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16 comments on “Add-ons for Australis Contest – Rules”

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  1. Lori wrote on

    Some questions:

    1. Does the “employees and contractors” clause apply to unpaid volunteers, such as AMO editors?

    2. Does the bookmarks category have an australis-specific requirement?

    3. How does bookmarks implementation differ in australis? It seems unchanged.

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    1. Jorge Villalobos wrote on

      1. No, this is a restriction for people who are paid by Mozilla. All volunteers that aren’t being paid can participate.

      2. No. The add-on should work well with Australis, but it doesn’t need to use any of the new features.

      3. You’re right. There is only one small improvement in the bookmarking UX. We just want add-ons that do interesting stuff with bookmarks 🙂

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      1. Noitidart wrote on

        What’s the small improvment? I’m curious about it. I was thinking of doing some bookmark addons in future and would like to take advantage of it.

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  2. Lori wrote on

    Oh, I had another question:

    4. Is history considered part of bookmarks?

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    1. Jorge Villalobos wrote on

      While we will consider add-ons that use Places in general, and maybe even add-ons that focus on history, we want the submissions to at least involve bookmarking.

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      1. Lori wrote on

        What about tagging? Assuming it’s all Places-resident, of course.

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        1. Jorge Villalobos wrote on

          Tagging is part of bookmarking, sure.

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  3. Boots wrote on

    (Thought I post here avoiding the anti-australis crowd)
    Through testing my extension I noticed that there was absolutely no visual indication if you are on a bookmarked page when you put the bookmark button anywhere but the navigation bar. And I was wondering if this is something that might have been looked over.
    Should I just submit a bug and see the reaction?

    Also, is there no confirmation email when submitting an entry?
    It’s always nice to have some reassurance of your submission.

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    1. Amy Tsay wrote on

      Hi Boots, which add-on did you submit?

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      1. Boots wrote on

        I’m pretty sure everything went fine.
        It was just that not receiving a confirmation put me off.
        But after having a closer look at the rules and reading this,
        “Entries submitted will not be returned or acknowledged.”,
        I don’t think there is anything to worry about.

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  4. Quicksaver wrote on

    I would like to confirm something. It clearly states in the rules that there can be up to 3 entries per user. However, the entry form has only “3. Your entry”, “4. Your second entry (optional)” and “5. Copy of Your second entry (optional)”.

    My question: is this a mistake, and 5. should actually be “Your third entry (optional)”? Or can we fill three different forms, one for each entry?

    By the way, an e-mail address somewhere for support questions (like this) would probably be good. At least, I didn’t find any such thing directly relating to the contest, other than this comments section.

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    1. Amy Tsay wrote on

      Hi Quicksaver, yes, this is a mistake–thanks for pointing it out! It should say “Your third entry (optional)”. We’ll try and get it changed.

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  5. mzki wrote on

    Another question, in the rules it says that in case my entry does not pass full review at AMO, I will be given a week to modify and resubmit it. I’ve been doing more development on the add-on since first submitting it for the contest. Can I submit a new version that contains more changes/improvements than strictly necessary to meet the AMO requirements and still be considered for the contest?

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    1. Amy Tsay wrote on

      Hi mzki, if the add-on you submitted before the deadline has passed full review, that is the version that will be judged.

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      1. mzki wrote on

        Hi Amy, thanks for replying. The thing is my add-on submitted just before the deadline failed to pass full review. The rules state that I still have a week to submit a corrected version. My question is basically whether it is acceptable for that corrected version to contain other changes and enhancements developed since I first submitted the add-on.

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        1. Amy Tsay wrote on

          The only fixes should be the ones that were pointed out to you when it didn’t pass full review.

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