Re: [Gimp-user] Judging the splash contest (mark 2)
On 3 Dec 2004 11:08:46 +0100, Andreas Waechter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I usually don't care for the splash screen, so I won't judge on it. But when I looked through the images, there were some I really disliked - NOT for the graphical ability, just for the motive. [...] Besides the motive, there is another thing that has not been mentioned so far about the splash screens: if you look at the history of previous splash screens (available from http://www.gimp.org/about/splash/), you will see that there is a difference between the splash screens for stable releases and the ones used during the development cycle. - For the development releases, many splash screens were based on photos and had a slightly humorous tone (references to bugs, crashes, etc.) - For stable releases, the images are generated entirely within the GIMP. Those who pay attention to them can try to guess how some filters, gradients, patterns, fonts and so on were used to create the final image. We do not have to follow the same tradition as for the previous stable releases and I think that some of the splash screens based on manipulated photos are very nice. But personally, I prefer the splash screens in which the original photo (if any was used) has been modified in some significant way instead of having simply been inserted into the existing layers. Of course, I don't want to influence the judges... ;) IMHO, IANAJ (I am not a judge), etc. -Raphaël ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Judging the splash contest (mark 2)
I haven't even looked at the entries yet, but I would strongly agree with both of these suggestions (no (living) people, and substantial use of the GIMP to create the image). -- David Hodson -- this night wounds time ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Judging the splash contest
Hi all, So thanks to yosh (and carol for having done the contest section of the site in the first place) we now have the splash contest back on track. The next step is to actually judge the contest and pickj the 2.2 splash screen. There are 3 ways we can go about that. 1) Someone makes a unilateral decision and commits one of the entries. 2) A small (2 or 3) group of GIMP people decide among themselves who wins. 3) A larger group (the GIMP user list, more or less) judges the contest by sending in their favourite, and the one with the most votes gets it. I'd like to do the third one, but we don't have a voting framework and I think that it would take too long. I prefer the second method. So could people who are interested in judging the splash contest (and having an entry should probably make you inelligible) contact me, and I will put 3 or 4 of you in contact with each other? That way, you can just let me know who won next Monday, and everyone is happy. Obviously, if 50 people say they are interested, I will just pick 4 people by some arbitrary method. Are there any people who disagree with doing it that way? Cheers, Dave. -- David Neary, Lyon, France E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CV: http://dneary.free.fr/CV/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Judging the splash contest
David Neary wrote: Hi all, So thanks to yosh (and carol for having done the contest section of the site in the first place) we now have the splash contest back on track. The next step is to actually judge the contest and pickj the 2.2 splash screen. There are 3 ways we can go about that. 1) Someone makes a unilateral decision and commits one of the entries. 2) A small (2 or 3) group of GIMP people decide among themselves who wins. 3) A larger group (the GIMP user list, more or less) judges the contest by sending in their favourite, and the one with the most votes gets it. I'd like to add: 4) A small group preselects a few (3, 5, 10, ?) images from the submissions, and a larger group votes for them like in option 3). Michael -- The GIMP http://www.gimp.org | IRC: irc://irc.gimp.org/gimp Wiki http://wiki.gimp.org | .de: http://gimpforum.de Plug-ins http://registry.gimp.org | ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Judging the splash contest
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 18:08 +0100, Michael Schumacher wrote: I'd like to add: 4) A small group preselects a few (3, 5, 10, ?) images from the submissions, and a larger group votes for them like in option 3). I'd like to add the following: 5) The splash contributors so far get to vote on the rest of the splash images (which they did not create) and the one with the maximum votes wins. Just my 2p. Mukund ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Judging the splash contest
I like the idea. jozsefmak From: Michael Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gimp Users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Judging the splash contest Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 18:08:14 +0100 David Neary wrote: Hi all, So thanks to yosh (and carol for having done the contest section of the site in the first place) we now have the splash contest back on track. The next step is to actually judge the contest and pickj the 2.2 splash screen. There are 3 ways we can go about that. 1) Someone makes a unilateral decision and commits one of the entries. 2) A small (2 or 3) group of GIMP people decide among themselves who wins. 3) A larger group (the GIMP user list, more or less) judges the contest by sending in their favourite, and the one with the most votes gets it. I'd like to add: 4) A small group preselects a few (3, 5, 10, ?) images from the submissions, and a larger group votes for them like in option 3). Michael -- The GIMP http://www.gimp.org | IRC: irc://irc.gimp.org/gimp Wiki http://wiki.gimp.org | .de: http://gimpforum.de Plug-ins http://registry.gimp.org | ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Judging the splash contest
Hi, Michael Schumacher wrote: I'd like to add: 4) A small group preselects a few (3, 5, 10, ?) images from the submissions, and a larger group votes for them like in option 3). I would just like to point out that the reason I would prefer to avoid #3 (and for the same reason #4) is time and infrastructure. We don't have any technical infrastructure for counting votes, and say 4 people come up with 10 candidates, we could be voting for days before we get a result, when we all want the 2.2 release as quickly as possible - and that could be as soon as the end of next week. Cheers, Dave. -- David Neary, Lyon, France E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CV: http://dneary.free.fr/CV/ ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] Judging the splash contest
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Mukund wrote: Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 17:18:49 + From: Mukund [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Gimp Users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Judging the splash contest On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 18:08 +0100, Michael Schumacher wrote: I'd like to add: 4) A small group preselects a few (3, 5, 10, ?) images from the submissions, and a larger group votes for them like in option 3). I'd like to add the following: 5) The splash contributors so far get to vote on the rest of the splash images (which they did not create) and the one with the maximum votes wins. I'd like to be able to vote on the entries too but still leave it to the gimp developers (ie Sven) to decide from the Top 5 or Top 3. - Alan H. ___ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
