Ubuntu Website Look'n'Feel Contest
| From: | Jeff Waugh <jeff.waugh-AT-ubuntu.com> | |
| To: | Ubuntu Announce <ubuntu-announce-AT-lists.ubuntu.com> | |
| Subject: | Ubuntu Website Look'n'Feel Contest | |
| Date: | Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:05:17 +1100 |
Ubuntu Website Look'n'Feel Contest ================================== Today we are announcing the most exciting competition since Willy Wonka put heavy metal in chocolate bars and purged rude children with coloured sugar. No, we're not giving away gold tickets for a trip to the ISS, although that would be cool... We're giving YOU the chance to give www.ubuntu.com a total look'n'feel makeover, so it can be the most attractive *and* usable project website EVER! Canonical is sponsoring the competition, offering a US$1000 first prize for the winning design! Competition Guidelines ---------------------- * Goal: We're looking for a fantastic, new look'n'feel for the current www.ubuntu.com site, which is based on Plone 2. * Entries do *not* have to be completed Plone skins! You may send mockup images, html+image samples, or if you really want to, an example Plone skin. They will all be judged equally - we're looking for an innovative look'n'feel more than ability to create Plone skins. :-) * Designs should cover as many Plone widgets and structural elements as possible, so we know how to apply it to a complete skin. See the first documentation link below for more about this. * Entries must be entirely your own work, or based on clearly licensed, credited, DFSG compatible works. The final website look'n'feel may be based on a combination of entries. * Entries must include the Ubuntu logo. :-) * Send your entry to jeff.waugh+webcomp@ubuntu.com or simply reply to this mail. * Entries close on January 31st, 2005. * sabdfl's judgement of the competition is final, even if he polls the community for input. :-) Documentation and Resources --------------------------- Here's some documentation and inspiration to get you started with Plone themes... http://plone.org/documentation-old/howto/CreatingACustomSkin http://plone.org/documentation/howto/creating-custom-skins (Plone 2) http://plone.org/development/teams/ui/p2uicookbook/ (Plone 2) http://www.ploneskins.org/ (for inspiration, mostly Plone 2) Thanks, and good luck! - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2005: Canberra, Australia http://linux.conf.au/ "The ability to procrastinate is what separates us from the machines." - Chris Gregory, Desktop Magazine -- ubuntu-announce mailing list ubuntu-announce@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce
Posted Jan 18, 2005 19:54 UTC (Tue)
by s_cargo (guest, #10473)
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Posted Jan 18, 2005 20:16 UTC (Tue)
by elanthis (guest, #6227)
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Posted Jan 19, 2005 10:37 UTC (Wed)
by leonbrooks (guest, #1494)
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Posted Jan 18, 2005 23:30 UTC (Tue)
by alextingle (guest, #20593)
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Posted Jan 18, 2005 23:41 UTC (Tue)
by elanthis (guest, #6227)
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Last I checked, most the folks that did the web designs for the other hundreds of thousands of Open Source web sites out there didn't get crap in pay.
I could understand $1,000 being cheap if, say, Red Hat or Novell were asking for a redesign of their whole sites (including all the non-Open bits like RHN or the various Novell proprietary products) but $1,000 is a lot from something like Canonical, who's site is about as Open and community driven as you can get.
Posted Jan 19, 2005 0:30 UTC (Wed)
by Zenith (guest, #24899)
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So, as I feel Ubuntu and Gentoo are serving many of the same purposes and have equal claims to being open and free, I can't see why you would think that $1,000 is cheap.
But again, that's just me :-)
Also, I haven't seen any (?) other distributions having a bounty-page that lets you earn money on doing what you (most likely) like: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/community/bounties
Cheap? I think not :-)
Posted Jan 19, 2005 9:10 UTC (Wed)
by alextingle (guest, #20593)
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I understand your points, and perhaps there should be a sliding scale between commercial and community. After all, Canonical are giving away their product for free. But they're definitely not as community centred as (say) Debian - if Debian offered $1000 to redesign their website I'd say it was too much.
Posted Jan 19, 2005 14:22 UTC (Wed)
by allesfresser (guest, #216)
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Posted Jan 19, 2005 20:47 UTC (Wed)
by Zenith (guest, #24899)
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Also, it's not like they're asking you to do the entire makeover yourself. Sketches/mockups are more than sufficient, they actually explicitly state that they are NOT expecting complete and functional proposals.
Spend a day or so sketching and earn yourself $1000, sounds like a deal to me....
But yes, Ubuntu and Debian are not the same, but that does not mean that I'm not interested in helping both, though.
Posted Jan 20, 2005 13:59 UTC (Thu)
by XERC (guest, #14626)
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Posted Jan 20, 2005 0:16 UTC (Thu)
by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
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Bonus points to whomever uses the most naked people in their design. :DUbuntu Website Look'n'Feel Contest
I knew someone would say it, and I knew it wouldn't be me. ;-)Ubuntu Website Look'n'Feel Contest
...as long as you like brown. (-: And you can have it in any colour you like...
IRL, with Waugh at the judging crease there's scope for some really, um,
exciting designs to get picked.
Isn't US$1000 a bit cheap for a complete website redesign?A bit cheap?
Isn't a $1,000 a lot of money to receive for volunteer work on completely Free/Open software? ;-)A bit cheap?
Just to put things into perspective, the citation below is from the Gentoo redesign contest:A bit cheap?
<blockquote>The submitter of the winning design will have the opportunity to place a link at the bottom of every page that says "Design provided by <your name>" and links to a web page of your choosing. (We reserve the right to change or remove the link if it points to objectionable content, such as a porn site). The right to display this link is contingent on the submitter actually completing the design as described above.</blockquote>
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/redesign-gui...
Quote: " The 2004 budget for bounties is USD 100,000. We also use donated funds to contribute to the bounty fund."
Hmm. Canonical is a well-funded commercial company. Ubuntu is their product. Do they pay their developers a tenth of the normal salary for their job?A bit cheap?
If the price is too low for you, then don't participate. To some people $1000 is still a nice chunk of change.A bit cheap?
I understand what you're saying, but you are more than welcome to take their distro and use it for free, unrestricted. That goes a long way in buying confidence from me :)A bit cheap?
When ever there are limited resources, there must A bit cheap?
be prioritys. The work that is done on Debian
is so vast and labourous that offering any chunk for
a smaller job at the same time when greater
jobs get done "without the beer", woud be a
little bit socially destructive.
I'ts just a subjective guess, I'm not representing
anyone and I'm not a Debian developer either.
(I love Debian, I use Debian, I ...Debian).
Isn't $0 a bit cheap for a complete GNU/Linux distribution?
A bit cheap?