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The DamnHippy

adamdewitz — 2007-04-05T01:44:35Z

mv'd content to actual DamnHippy page

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- The DamnHippy is a sort of 'Award' for someone who has been doing nifty work on RocWiki. - = Background = - In January 2005, Bill Gates made a statement [http://news.com.com/Gates+taking+a+seat+in+your+den/2008-1041_3-5514121.html?part=rss&tag=5514121&subj=news.1041.5 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"] (one of the project founders) to a "Creative Communist and Damn Hippy!" for his work with RocWiki and ["Ant Hill Cooperative"]. - - ["HeatherYager" Someone] 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. - - == DamnHippies = - Folks that have been DamnHippies in the past (incomplete list) - - ["TobinFricke"],["RobertPolyn"]...	+ #redirect DamnHippy

FarMcKon — 2007-04-05T01:27:55Z

added a little info on the start of it....

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- Someone quickly made a redirect page linking to him under the name 'DamnHippy', and the redirect has been passed back and forth since then, as a 'award' to whoever has done good wiki work recently.	+ ["HeatherYager" Someone] 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. + + == DamnHippies = + Folks that have been DamnHippies in the past (incomplete list) + + ["TobinFricke"],["RobertPolyn"]...

FarMcKon — 2006-07-01T01:17:36Z

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- The DamnHippy is a sort of 'Award' for someone who has been doing nifty work on RocWiki.	+ The DamnHippy is a sort of 'Award' for someone who has been doing nifty work on RocWiki.
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- During a conversation in October 2005, someone compared ["TobinFricke"] (one of the project founders) to a "Creative Communist and Damn Hippy!" for his work with RocWiki and ["Ant Hill Cooperative"].	+ During a conversation in October 2005, someone compared ["TobinFricke"] (one of the project founders) to a "Creative Communist and Damn Hippy!" for his work with RocWiki and ["Ant Hill Cooperative"].
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- Someone quickly made a redirect page linking to him under the name 'DamnHippy', and the redirect has been passed back and forth since then.	+ Someone quickly made a redirect page linking to him under the name 'DamnHippy', and the redirect has been passed back and forth since then, as a 'award' to whoever has done good wiki work recently.

FarMcKon — 2005-11-10T23:36:50Z

fixed link

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- During a conversation in October 2005, someone compared ["TobinFricke"] (one of the project founders) to a "Creative Communist and - Damn Hippy!" for his work with [RocWiki.org] and [Ant-Hill.org].	+ During a conversation in October 2005, someone compared ["TobinFricke"] (one of the project founders) to a "Creative Communist and Damn Hippy!" for his work with RocWiki and ["Ant Hill Cooperative"].

FarMcKon — 2005-11-10T23:36:13Z

added background on the dubious 'DamnHippy' award.

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	+ The DamnHippy is a sort of 'Award' for someone who has been doing nifty work on RocWiki. + = Background = + In January 2005, Bill Gates made a statement [http://news.com.com/Gates+taking+a+seat+in+your+den/2008-1041_3-5514121.html?part=rss&tag=5514121&subj=news.1041.5 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"] (one of the project founders) to a "Creative Communist and + Damn Hippy!" for his work with [RocWiki.org] and [Ant-Hill.org]. + + Someone quickly made a redirect page linking to him under the name 'DamnHippy', and the redirect has been passed back and forth since then.