Re: Splash screen contest

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

On 9 Feb 2005, at 12:19 pm, David Neary wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thomas Wood wrote:
> > On 9 Feb 2005, at 11:03 am, Toady wrote:
> > > If not, well, let's start ! who can retrieve the script written to
> > > manage the Gimp contest ? who handle it ?
> >
> > David Neary handled the GIMP Splash Screen Contest. It was originally
> > on live.gnome.org, but I think there where problems with that,
> > especially when it got slashdotted! I've CC'd David so he can let us
> > know how it was handled.
>
> I'm here ;)
>
> The scripts for the GIMP contest were written by yosh (Manish
> Singh) and Helvetix.
>
> Organising the splash contest would be fairly simple. Announce
> it, point to a place for entries, decide on judges, and away you
> go. The only prerequisites are a closing date and a decision
> process. Oh - and make sure to specify a licence for all entries
> (all entries must be released under CC-share and share alike,
> etc, etc) and a bare minimum of rules (no plagiarism, for
> example).
>
> One piece of advice - have no more than 2 or 3 judges. We had 5,
> and it was too many, I think. Or perhaps they weren't very well
> chosen... Either way, we ended up with a choice which didn't have
> universal community acceptance, which is important.
>
> You could say that the release team will choose the logo, and
> have one person make a more or less arbitrary decision...
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.

Since it seems unlikely we'll be able to use the CGI scripts, I've 
created a stub on the wiki for a contest.

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt_2fSplashScreenContest

If people could add anything that I've missed off, then I can announce 
it on art.gnome.org when it's ready.

-Thomas