On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 12:17:45PM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote: > 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.
Okay, I agree. > > * 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. True enough. > I would drop this requirement. I would instead *demand* that no more than 16 colours are used. See below. > > * 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, Okay. > preferably achieved by an alpha-blended PNG image". PNGs with alpha blending are inacceptable. Only xpm and xbm images with no more than 16 colours will be included in the distribution. (Because of the size and the library requirements). > > * 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." Okay. But it must be stated that the large logo will *not* be published. It will only be used to create the logos in the three target sizes and depths and must look good in this format. > > * 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. Colour reduction is nice, but the logos are too large in xpm format with many colours. > > * 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. On b/w displays. > > * 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. No, it isn't. Jason would have to move them to some place where we can edit them and put them on the contributions page. > > 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 I see four: - XPM banner (about 300x200, 16 colours) - XBM banner (about 300x200, 2 colours) - Sidebar (about 16x24, full colour, rotated 90 degrees) - Web site (about 150x100, full colour, jpg or png) > 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. The author can submit any or all of these. If any formats are missing, a large, high quality version must be submitted from which the smaller versions are generated. Submitting the smaller versions is optional in case scaling them down automatically does not give good results. Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
