On 13 Mar 2003 22:17:27 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Fvwm Logo Competition Rules > --------------------------- > > *** DRAFT *** > > !!! > (give a short explanation what fvwm is and why it needs a new > logo) > > 1. Competition Schedule > > * The logo competition begins on 15th of April, 2003. > > * Contributions can be made up to and including the 31st of July. > * From the 3rd of August to the 30th of August, the winning logo > will be elected by the fvwm users on the fvwm mailing list.
I am not sure why we need 4 weeks here, one week would be enough. > * The winner will be proclaimed on the 31st of August. > > 2. Logos > > * Logos can be submitted in either XPM or PNG format. All other > formats, including .jpg and .gif are not accepted. > * The acceptable size of the logos is about between 240x150 pixels > to 360x240 pixels. I think the participians should be encouraged to create large qualitative logos, like 600x400 that could be scalled down to any needed size. I would drop this requirement, see also below. > * No more than 256 colours may be used. I don't see any difference between 256 and several thousands of colors. Both can't be easily used on 8bpp. It is better to have more colors if we want to scale down images. I would drop this requirement. > * Transparency should be used to shape the image. > * As the winning logo is used as a banner, it should have a good > contrast to any background. I am not sure "a good contrast" is the best wording. I would use "looks good on any background, preferably achieved by an alpha-blended PNG image". > * The submitted logos will be used at full size, scaled down to > half size, and to a height of 16 pixels. "The submitted logos will be used at 3 sizes. 1) The size suitable for FvwmBanner. 2) The medium size (like 150x100). 3) Small size (the width is 16). The participant is requered to submit only one large qualitative logo. The 3 sizes mentioned here are optional for submission." > * The submitted logos will be converted to use no more than 16 > colours when packed into the fvwm distribution and should still > look good. We now have in 2.5.x a good automatical color redution algorithms, so this is requirement is not needed. I would either make it optional or drop it. > * A version using only black and white will also be part of the > distribution, so it must be possible to still recognize the logo > with only two colours. I am not sure where 1bit images could be useful. May be optional. > * The name "fvwm" must appear in the logo, without a version > number (i.e. *not* as "fvwm2"). > > 3. Contributing > > * Everybody may participate in the competition with any number of > contributions. > * Logos can be submitted by > A. Posting the URL of the logo to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > B. Uploading the logo to ftp://ftp.fvwm.org/pub/incoming/fvwm/ > and sending a mail to inform the fvwm@fvwm.org list of the > upload. This is not practical, incoming/ is not downloadable. > C. Sending the logo as an *aggressively compressed* attachment, > no larger than 20kB to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Due to the possible > number of contributions, larger files are *not* acceptable. > * For our convenience, please use the subject "[logo]" when you > send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * The contributed logos will be exhibited on the logo web page: > http://!!! http://fvwm.org/logo-contest/candidates/<author>-logo.png > in the three sizes mentioned above, with full colour and with 16 > colours. I see 5 variants here, not 3. <author>-logo.png # may be at any size with any number of colors <author>-banner.png # about 300x200, suitable for FvwmBanner <author>-medium.png # about 150x100, also any number of colors <author>-narrow.png # about 150x20 (if this makes sence) <author>-bw.png # about 300x200, black-white The author may provide either one image (the first one) or all 5 or less. I would not make "narrow" and "bw" mandatory, but something that may improve the rating. > * Logos with illegal, discriminating or otherwise offensive > contents, at the discretion of the fvwm developers, will not be > accepted. > > 4. Copyrights and License > > * The artist retains full copyright of his or her work. > * By submitting a logo to the competition, the artist accepts that > the logo is converted into XPM format (if necessary) and > distributed under the terms of the Gnu General Public License > (GPL). !!!Link to GPL. > > 5. Voting Rules > > * In the election phase, votes are sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * Everybody may vote only only once. > * You can give one or no votes for any number of logos. The voting > email should contain a list of logos for which you vote. Give a > vote for each logo you would enjoy to see as the official fvwm > logo. > * The logo with the most votes wins. > * The above voting mode is meant to determine the logo that is > accepted by the broadest range of users and not disliked strogly > by a large fraction of fvwm users. > * Although everybody may count the votes sent to the fvwm-workers > mailing list, the current standings of the election will only be > published when the polls are closed. > > 6. The winner > > * The winning logo will be shipped with the fvwm distribution > (hopefully in 2.6.0) and used as: > > - A startup banner with the FvwmBanner module at full size. > - As a banner on the fvwm web site at full or half size. > - At tiny size, rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise as a menu > side bar. May be also used as a wallpaper after some additional work. > !!!prize? Regards, Mikhael. -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. 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