The Open Group announces a Poster Competition

At the 35th Anniversary of the UNIX. System, The Open Group Announces
Design Contest for UNIX Poster

San Francisco, CA - September 16, 2004 -- To celebrate the 35th
anniversary of the UNIX. system, The Open Group, the industry's premier
certification organization and operators of the UNIX certification
program, announced a design contest for a new UNIX Poster.

The design should capture the magic of the UNIX system, featuring
images based on UNIX system interfaces, utilities, languages, and/or
organizations. The winning design will be produced and distributed
at future events such as LinuxWorld Expo 2005. The designer will be
acknowledged on The Open Group's UNIX System web page and receive a
Linspire Mobile PC, a number of copies of the poster, a collection of
UNIX system memorabilia and a copy of the Single UNIX specification on
CD ROM. The first twenty entrants whose work is accepted for display,
will also receive UNIX license plates

The contest deadline is October 31, 2004. All entries should be emailed to

    umagicposter@opengroup.org

Contest rules and more details are posted at:

    http://www.unix.org/uposter.html

The Original UNIX Magic Poster

The classic UNIX Magic Poster was designed by Overacre and distributed at
past USENIX conferences. It featured a white bearded wizard surrounded
by UNIX system related items, including a spool of thread, a black cat,
a boot, a fork, pipes, buckets, a number of containers, labeled tar,
null, awk, uucp, and C.

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