Sure. Happy to shine some light on what happened at Game On:
We had a contractor help with organizing the contest. A software vendor had kindly offered to sponsor one of the main parts of the prices. Unfortunately they never actually sent the software packages to us for distribution to the category winners. Meanwhile the contract for the contractor had expired and I essentially just dropped the ball on following up with the winners and offering them a replacement in lieu of the originally planned software package.
Your typical chain of events crap. My bad. We are actively sorting it out now.
The two other people are unrelated to Game On - they are waiting for t-shirts which fell through the cracks somewhere. I don't particular care who blew this - all I care about is that those two people get their shirts. And one of them already emailed me. So - we're sorting it out as well. :)
And on the first Game On - we ran this as a fun experiment out of Mozilla Labs. The 2012 edition is run as a much bigger thing out of the Mozilla Foundation. :)
We had a contractor help with organizing the contest. A software vendor had kindly offered to sponsor one of the main parts of the prices. Unfortunately they never actually sent the software packages to us for distribution to the category winners. Meanwhile the contract for the contractor had expired and I essentially just dropped the ball on following up with the winners and offering them a replacement in lieu of the originally planned software package.
Your typical chain of events crap. My bad. We are actively sorting it out now.
The two other people are unrelated to Game On - they are waiting for t-shirts which fell through the cracks somewhere. I don't particular care who blew this - all I care about is that those two people get their shirts. And one of them already emailed me. So - we're sorting it out as well. :)
And on the first Game On - we ran this as a fun experiment out of Mozilla Labs. The 2012 edition is run as a much bigger thing out of the Mozilla Foundation. :)