{"id":4439,"date":"2012-03-02T09:48:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T17:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=4439"},"modified":"2012-03-02T09:49:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T17:49:55","slug":"announcing-the-winners-new-years-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2012\/03\/02\/announcing-the-winners-new-years-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the Winners of the New Year&#8217;s Challenge!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/files\/2011\/12\/AMO_editor_contest_image.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3756\" title=\"AMO_editor_contest_image\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/files\/2011\/12\/AMO_editor_contest_image.png\" alt=\"AMO Editor contest image\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/files\/2011\/12\/AMO_editor_contest_image.png 600w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/files\/2011\/12\/AMO_editor_contest_image-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2011\/12\/22\/amo-editors-new-years-challenge\/\">AMO Editors New Year&#8217;s Challenge<\/a> ran from December 22nd to February 22nd. We have tallied up the results, and here are the winners!<\/p>\n<h3>First Place<\/h3>\n<p>Our top prize goes to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/user\/105689\/\">Nils Maier<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>Nils is the author of the very popular <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/downthemall\/\">DownThemAll!<\/a> extension, as well as other add-ons such as <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/scriptish\/\">Scriptish<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/minimizetotray-revived\/\">MinimizeToTray revived<\/a>. He is very valuable community member who has helped us raise the bar in add-on security, and is currently very active <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/2012\/02\/29\/memshrink-progress-week-37\/\">helping the MemShrink team<\/a> with add-on memory leak reports and documentation.<\/p>\n<h3>Runners-Up<\/h3>\n<p>We decided to give away one extra prize because the runner-up race was pretty intense and everyone on this group deserved special recognition.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/user\/54957\/\">Leszek \u017byczkowski<\/a>, author of <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/quicknote\/\">QuickNote<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/copy-plain-text-2\/\">Copy Plain Text 2<\/a>, and many others.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/user\/4750720\/\">Andreas Wagner<\/a>, author of <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/slim-add-ons-manager\/\">Slim Add-ons Manager<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/webreview\/\">WebReview<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/user\/47341\/\">Archaeopteryx.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/user\/5575361\/\">Diego Casorran<\/a>, author of <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/facebook-phishing-protector\/\">FB Phishing Protector<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/personas-shuffler\/\">Personas Shuffler<\/a>, and many others.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/user\/59053\/\">Ken Barbalace<\/a>, author of the <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/classic-compact\/\">Classic Compact<\/a> theme and its companion extension, <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/classic-compact-options\/\">Classic Compact Options<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>T-shirt Winners<\/h3>\n<p>All editors who completed at least 20 reviews during the contest period gets an awesome Firefox t-shirt. And they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/user\/1010542\/\">Erik Vold<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/user\/5447178\/\">Cyril Pascal<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/user\/66492\/\">Axel Grude<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/user\/185776\/\">Jesper Hansen<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/user\/2260337\/\">Kent James<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Thanks!<\/h3>\n<p>Thanks to the excellent efforts of the review team, this contest was another resounding success. The volunteer reviewers completed a total of <strong>3500 reviews<\/strong> during these 2 months, and for the first time ever we completely <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2012\/02\/16\/the-review-queues-are-empty\/\">cleared the review queues<\/a>. You guys are awesome!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re an add-on developer and want to join our team, please <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/AMO:Editors\">visit our wiki page<\/a> for more information. There are very exciting changes coming for the review team, and winning the occasional prize is only part of the fun \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AMO Editors New Year&#8217;s Challenge ran from December 22nd to February 22nd. We have tallied up the results, and here are the winners! First Place Our top prize goes &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2012\/03\/02\/announcing-the-winners-new-years-challenge\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6744],"tags":[580,583,121],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Announcing the Winners of the New Year&#039;s Challenge! - Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2012\/03\/02\/announcing-the-winners-new-years-challenge\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jorge Villalobos\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2012\/03\/02\/announcing-the-winners-new-years-challenge\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2012\/03\/02\/announcing-the-winners-new-years-challenge\/\",\"name\":\"Announcing the Winners of the New Year's Challenge! 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