( On behalf of the Judges Panel) We are pleased to announce that the winners of the poster competition are
C. Srividya (2 entries) Ani Dalal (1 entry ). Decision making was easy as we had 3 top spots. (Prizes will be sent by courier soon). Here are some of the messages accompanying the entries (If we are putting these too on the website, then a few minor edits would be helpful.) Ani Dalal : " The picture depicts someone holding the hands of someone else. In one way it can be visualised as the relation between two persons who may belong to different sex, and the message indicating that one should not be held back/constrained by the other, it indicates freedom and courage, and dawn of a new world, a better world for all, irrespective of their gender or any other form of dicrimination.", Spelling : discrimination "Stock photo of two persons holding hands from free-extras.com Using selection tool in gimp the areas were selected and separated and coloured in shades of blue and red. A hand shaped custom brush was used to give the colours a texture. The text was put in, inbetween the layers , and the one in white at last. Lastly the layers were merged and the effects olify and lens flare were used. The image was resized due to the large file size and exported to png format for easy upload." Srividya, C. : "LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. The term LGBT is intended to emphasize a diversity of sexuality and gender identity-based cultures and is sometimes used to refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual or non-cisgender instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. Give value to Humanity. Whatever the person personal life may be, but he will be a human at the end of the day. Love Humanity... Love all the people around you.... Support LGBT...bring them to society with care and affection....!! " Suggestion: Remove or rewrite "Whatever the person personal life may be, but he will be a human at the end of the day." It is not gender neutral. Srividya, C.: "The Free Software needs cultural change. This can be best bought up by involving Women in it. FOSS contributors do various things: software development, system administration, user interface design, graphic design, documentation, community management, marketing, identifying issues and reporting bugs, helping users, event organization, and translations. Men involve majorly in Coding and packaging side and only less people involve in other aspects like documenting, event organization, and translations. So women can enter to these fields and slowly start contributing to FOSS. Translation is the major phase in software which localizes the software to their own languages. There are so many Women in Free software organizations who have reached Great heights in Free Software by contributing in their own way. Some of them have become the leading power of Software organizations. If those women have achieved, they why not we? Free Software is not Gender Specific. It gives value to Humanity. So what are you waiting for? Next is our turn...!!! " Congratulations to the winners! ____________________________________________ Interestingly, we received all our entries before 13th June and well before the extension of dates. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, AMS, CLC, CMS http://www.logicamani.in _______________________________________________ WFS-India mailing list WFS-India@lists.openhatch.org Message archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/wfs-india@lists.openhatch.org/ Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe, please login to your account at http://www.wfs-india.org/ and unsubscribe to the WFS-India list from your account settings. -- WFS-India - http://www.wfs-india.org