DamnHippy

The DamnHippy is a sort of 'Award' for someone who has been doing nifty work on RocWiki.

In January 2005, Bill Gates made a statement comparing Open Source advocates to communists . This resulted in some Ruffled Feathers and a lot of humor, including scads of communist-style art based on various Open Source and Creative Commons logo's.

During a conversation in October 2005, someone compared TobinFricke, a RocWiki co-founder to a "Creative Communist and Damn Hippy!" for his work with RocWiki and Ant Hill Cooperative.

HeatherYager made a redirect page linking to him under the name 'DamnHippy', and it was pretty entertaining. Since then that redirect has been passed back and forth, as an 'award' to whoever has done good wiki work recently.

Folks that have been DamnHippies in the past

RobertPolyn, RickUrwin, AdamDewitz, PeteB, RottenChester, KelliCronin, FarMckon, RossHattori, TobinFricke, JackCalcines, MariahBetz, HeatherYager, StevenDibelius, DavidHowe, BradMandell, AlexanderGartley, DamianKumor, EileenF, ScottHendler