In a complete and total surprise, my cousin presented to me yesterday the result of a grand conspiracy in the Ogre community to commemorate my time as project lead – a specially designed, unique Ogre statuette! Thumbnails below, click for more detail…
I literally had no idea this was going on, or that my cousin had been asked to make the delivery that day (I thought we were just meeting for a social). I was completely taken aback and very touched that the people in the community would go to the trouble of doing something like this for me. 
There’s a thread in the forums going into more detail on how they organised it, including the many, many different designs they mocked up and considered before voting for this one. I’m humbled and flattered.
My sincere thanks to everyone who was involved in organising this, and very well done for creating such an excellent statue and managing so successfully to keep me in the dark about it! You guys are just awesome.
July 25th, 2010 at 11:46 am
Loved your initial confusion in response to revealing the trophy. It’s an awesome trophy though! They did an amazing job organising it in top secret. I did feel like an undercover agent though
July 25th, 2010 at 2:02 pm
Despite my involvement in the ‘conspiracy’, I do envy you. It looked awesome enough in metaldev’s drafts, but the real thing is something else entirely
July 25th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
@Kezzer: The correct term we have for you is ‘The Insider’
July 25th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
@psquare: Or the man without whom, the whole thing would have been even harder to organize for us. Glad that we had ‘The Insider’ in our “circle”…
@Steve: Nice to finally give you something back for all your work! Still amazed when seeing the statuette on the pictures, despite having seen pictures of the drafts all the last months
Agmain: You deserve it! For Ogre3D and the wonderful community you build around it!
July 25th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
Looks amazing! I’m surprised on just how unique they made it for you
July 25th, 2010 at 10:08 pm
We are really glad you like it Steve
I sort-of wish I had one on my desk too, but without the text of course. Does it feel like Plaster of Paris?
July 25th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
Awesomeness is reflective and self-sustained.
Great idea, and congrats to everyone involved.
July 26th, 2010 at 2:18 am
Phenomenal gesture from the community! Very well deserved!
Organizing and doing something like this shows just how awesome the Ogre community is.
July 26th, 2010 at 7:39 am
This Statue is very fine piece of art in itself. It is totally awesome and very very very good.
I am keeping the pictures of statue in my collection. It really looks like it just came out of some fantasy kingdom instead of bourne conspiracy
The community is quite active, and I wish them more luck in all they do including surprising you
On a different note it is also too awesome, awesome kind of awesome to see that you still look very young for your age, I think 5 years have passed since I first said that
, though sadly your health troubled you in between. How time passes by when I look back, seems like yesterday, when I first knew about Ogre and that it is free 
and Open Source, and now I am seeing so much work done in front of me, and today a very beautiful statue too.
It all fills my heart with so much happiness. Open source does effect people in positive way, since it is community.
All in all a very good souvenir which you must keep with you life long, with that alien statue possibly
All of you people who are associated with Ogre or other open source projects, best of luck and keep up the good work.
July 26th, 2010 at 8:35 am
Thanks all
@Paul: it feels like some sort of dense resin, which is guess is what it is. So it feels more solid than plaster of paris, and more durable which is reassuring.
July 28th, 2010 at 10:47 am
You deserve it. Thanks!
July 28th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
My, what big feet the Ogre has. Better to stomp you with!
Congrats!
July 31st, 2010 at 9:09 am
Check it out your famous now:
http://www.offloadstudios.com/core/index.php/blog/july-2010-newsletter.html
July 31st, 2010 at 10:20 am
Yeah, Tweeted about this last night, awesome
August 2nd, 2010 at 6:18 pm
Steve, I keep an eye on your blog randomly. Always find your opinions on things very interesting and a refreshing change of topic to what I do day-in, day-out. Amazed at what you have achieved here in your ‘spare’ time! Congrats on the statue… really cool.
August 2nd, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Good to hear from you again Podge! Hope things are well with you & the rest of the Dubliners these days. I don’t miss doing the Guernsey/Manchester/Dublin travel triangle
August 3rd, 2010 at 3:33 am
Moved to San Francisco about 3 months ago. Really enjoying it here. Yea, I don’t miss that trip either.
August 3rd, 2010 at 9:14 am
Ah, awesome – I remember you saying how much you liked it last time you were in SF for a while. Good luck out there!
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