New contest in the works! "Mod of the month"

[trikkonceptz]

The Scion club I am part of Scikotics ... has a monthly Ride of the Month.

Here is how it works;

Members submit their entry for the month, the moderator chooses the top 4 and then the top 4 are submitted to public voting through a thread poll open for a specific amount of time.

In that thread each entry submits their best photos plus a description of their vehicle to the best of their abilities. The winner get recognition at the home page of the website.

A similar format can be used here for this. Previous winners cannot re-enter for 1 year, however we can reduce that time based on participation, etc ...

Sounds like fun .. I look forward to entering my finished front end .. someday ..

[MetroMPG]

Super: that's a good idea too. Except, probably 50%+ of the membership can't mod during the winter, so it'd be pretty thin pickin's for half the year! Still worth thinking about though.

I also think trebuchet has a point: going monthly might be stretching a little.

Sean: yes, the idea was to reward a particularly good NEW thread. But there's no reason we can't also have "all time favourites" as well.

[Sulfuric]

Or we can have a Sulfuric vs. akashic BATTLE ROYALE!!!

We both recently started a thread with a number of mods completed within a week or two.

I like that mpguino prize

[MetroMPG]

OK! Why don't we give this a try?

Let's begin by taking nominations.

Feel free to nominate your own stuff, (if it's worthy!). Any mod or test, regardless of when it was started, that has had any significant new development in the last 3 months is eligible.

Then we'll vote via a poll in a couple of days.

Depending on how this goes, we'll likely tighten up the nomination criteria for February, and/or decide whether we'll go with monthly/bi-monthly/quarterly etc. I suspect in northern hemisphere summertime, we'll have more to choose from than we currently do.

I'm going to quote treb's words here. I think they serve as a good gauge for what qualities make a mod/test "worthy":

* Quality
* Elegance/implementation
* Attention to testing practices
* Documentation
* Novel?

Personally, I rank implementation and quality over novelness. I'd rather see a "B" idea implemented well than an "A" idea implemented like crap. And of course, documentation documentation documentation

[MetroMPG]

I'm going to start by nominating these 3 projects:

dcb's (& company) open source MPGuino fuel economy computer

Paul & Sabrina's open source motor controller

jomelmaldonado's load sensitive cruise control hack

[Daox]

More nominations!

Designing/building front wheel skirts v.1.0 (Geo Metro)

Trebuchet03's JettKamm (2000 VW Jetta)

[MetroMPG]

Tim (Daox) just pointed out that there are actually quite a few good candidates to choose from, so if we get a lot of nominations, we may award more than one winner for this first round.

[Daox]

How could I forget the now road legal electro metro! One more for the list.

Ben Nelson's Electro-Metro Build thread

[gascort]

I think there have been so many good ones thus far; perhaps for the first round we could do a "top 12" - signifying the first ~year of EM, then new ones monthly or quarterly.

[gascort]

Sorry; I didn't see the age of this thread.
In that case, the Aerocivic project, based on the willingness to go to extreme lengths to pioneer/test radical aero ideas.