Origami for the People Challenge

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Who:
Christiane Bettens, Christine Pape and Philip Chapman-Bell, the administrators of the Origami for the People flickr group...

What:
...cordially invite you to participate in our first annual Feast of All Fools Challenge.

Where:
The Origami for the People group page.

When:
From now until 23:59 April 1, 2010, Greenwich Mean Time.

Why:
Really, that's very complicated. Let us say for the glory of it and leave it at that.

How:
In spite of the timing, there is no special theme to this challenge. Origami for the People is a group that encourages and documents the unsanctioned placement of origami in the public sphere. (That is, we leave models in public without asking permission first.) We value the aptness and/or the unlikeliness of the model to the placement.

We require geotagging on the photos submitted to the group, so that we can view the results on a map or on Google Earth. If you've never geotagged before, there's a little tutorial on how to do it -- it's easy.

In order to enter, you should: 1) geotag your photo; 2) attach the tag OPPchallenge2010; 3) and submit it to the group. (You have to have a flickr account and join the group to submit -- it's fine, you can quit later if you don't like it.)

There is a limit of three entries per person, so choose your installations with care.

Prize:
The winning entry will become the group avatar until the next challenge. If that's not glory, we don't know what is.

Special bonus challenge:
A special, as-yet-undetermined prize will be awarded for the first verifiable photo of an origami penguin in Antarctica or of an origami polar bear above the Arctic circle. (Id est, no Photoshop -- you have to be there in the flesh to take the photo.)

The administrators encourage you to spread the word -- please feel free to translate this challenge and repost to other forums and/or mailing lists.