I hope more folks read this update on the OEAwards, and more so for what I slid in as a call for ongoing acts of open recognition via a very nifty tool created for us by @VisualThinkery
Awards are a BIG recognition, they take time and effort to write a nomination, and generally focus on important significant contributions. But what about something that is easy to do to give a recognition for a smaller scale action or support by a colleague or someone else in the community? Just an expression of appreciation.
Who would you give a “tip of a hat” to? Do you have 10 minutes to spare to make a remix?
Welcome to the Hat Tip as Gratitude & Micro-recognition Remixer. You can change hat styles, colors, and add a short message. Publish, save, and share, either privately or publicly.
Here is my hat tip to @paulhibbitts for all his contributions not only creating Docsify-This web publishing tool, but continually improving it, and here, generously offering support to another person or organization interesting in making use of it.
And specially for Paul, my hat tip includes Markdown 
If you send to someone, as I will do here, ask Paul to consider “hat tipping it forward” and creating a remix to thank someone else (except it can’t be me!) as a way to spread the idea.
Surely you can think of a person, team, project, heck even your favorite chatbot to give a hat tip. See for example @LauraHenderson who got the idea and remixed her own hat tip.
Note: Indeed the hats and even the idea of hat tipping may not be universally known. @IslaHF shared some examples of Zulu hats as well as Peruvian style hats with many varieties.
What kinds of hats are significant from your part of the world? I bet we might convince @VisualThinkery to maybe expand the selection.