Wallpaper Contest Guidelines
This is an official announcement of the wallpaper contest for openSUSE 12.3.
Submissions are made to artwork team's flickr page
http://www.flickr.com/groups/opensuse-artwork/
The format can be any image style you would like. Created with GIMP or Inkscape, or an original photo. They can all be considered. If the submission is not made in the Flickr page, it cannot be counted. If you don't have a Flickr page, ask any of our team members to help you submit your image.
Given the amount of submissions so far this year(152 images so far), the artwork team will work on the selection of images in the following way. Our team members will be in charge of selecting the final 10 images for the selection of the rest of the community. We will present the 10 finalist images.
Each voting member form our team will receive 10 points. These 10 points will be distributed across the images that such member selects as his/her best ones. You only have 10 points and nothing more, and you will run out of points after distributing those points across different images.
If you are a contributor the artwork team and also the contest images, you cannot vote for yourself. The idea being to go out find other possible contributors to the team and there is no feeling that we pushing only for our own interests. To also show fairness to those who may be trying to be part of our team.
For example
Image 1: 3 pts
Image 2: 5 pts
Image 3: 2 pts
TOTAL: 10 pts
In order to vote you have to comment under the image in question on Flickr. You will add the comment saying:
User X Comment: +1, +2, +5, etc
We will be in charge also of counting the results.
If you decide to change your mind about a particular image and would like to withdraw your points, you can do so by deleting the comment you made on a particular image.
Additional information can be found here https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Wallpapers_12.3
The contest will end on December 24^th of 2012. After 1 week, December 10^th the finalists selection will end leaving the remaining 2 weeks for the community as a whole to vote on the last 10 images.
The current members who replied to the artwork team list are
Eugene Trounev Richard Brown Marcus Moeller Michael Fox Carlos Ribeiro Scott Dubois Marcel Kühlhorn Raiko Matovic Victor HCK James Mason
If there is someone else who would like to participate and did not get the former email confirming your presence during this process, please email me at anditosan@opensuse.org and I will add you as long as the first selection week is not over.
PS: There are details that may have escaped this revision, please write back to define them and update them.
Thank you everyone!
Andy (anditosan)
I just want to say that I read this thread and I think Andy is off to a great start.
From what I understand, this is the first time we are attempting to do
our wallpaper contest this way and for him to step forward and provide an outline as well defined is a significant investment. It may not be perfect by some people's standards or exactly the way that some feel it should be, but it is something and I think it is a good start in the right direction. Next release it will be better and so on. When embarking into uncharted territory we never know how the results will be until we reach our destination. In the end, we learn from what went good and what went bad and improve on that. Right now we are concentrating on making sure it is fun and easy for more people to contribute their art work for consideration as the primary release work. Not everything submitted was solely focused on that, but who cares? We're having fun, contributing and being creative!
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Andy (anditosan) anditosan1000@gmail.com wrote:
Wallpaper Contest Guidelines
This is an official announcement of the wallpaper contest for openSUSE 12.3.
Submissions are made to artwork team's flickr page
http://www.flickr.com/groups/opensuse-artwork/
The format can be any image style you would like. Created with GIMP or Inkscape, or an original photo. They can all be considered. If the submission is not made in the Flickr page, it cannot be counted. If you don't have a Flickr page, ask any of our team members to help you submit your image.
Given the amount of submissions so far this year(152 images so far), the artwork team will work on the selection of images in the following way. Our team members will be in charge of selecting the final 10 images for the selection of the rest of the community. We will present the 10 finalist images.
Each voting member form our team will receive 10 points. These 10 points will be distributed across the images that such member selects as his/her best ones. You only have 10 points and nothing more, and you will run out of points after distributing those points across different images.
If you are a contributor the artwork team and also the contest images, you cannot vote for yourself. The idea being to go out find other possible contributors to the team and there is no feeling that we pushing only for our own interests. To also show fairness to those who may be trying to be part of our team.
For example
Image 1: 3 pts
Image 2: 5 pts
Image 3: 2 pts
TOTAL: 10 pts
In order to vote you have to comment under the image in question on Flickr. You will add the comment saying:
User X Comment: +1, +2, +5, etc
We will be in charge also of counting the results.
If you decide to change your mind about a particular image and would like to withdraw your points, you can do so by deleting the comment you made on a particular image.
Additional information can be found here https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Wallpapers_12.3
The contest will end on December 24^th of 2012. After 1 week, December 10^th the finalists selection will end leaving the remaining 2 weeks for the community as a whole to vote on the last 10 images.
The current members who replied to the artwork team list are
Eugene Trounev Richard Brown Marcus Moeller Michael Fox Carlos Ribeiro Scott Dubois Marcel Kühlhorn Raiko Matovic Victor HCK James Mason
If there is someone else who would like to participate and did not get the former email confirming your presence during this process, please email me at anditosan@opensuse.org and I will add you as long as the first selection week is not over.
PS: There are details that may have escaped this revision, please write back to define them and update them.
Thank you everyone!
Andy (anditosan)
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Hi all,
On Dec 6, 2012, at 7:06 AM, DuBois, Scott L. wrote:
I just want to say that I read this thread and I think Andy is off to a great start.
I agree. Revitalizing the community through new membership and leadership is an ongoing process, a living thing. Nobody is perfect, everything can improve - the only way to improve is by making mistakes and learning from them. If we do all of this while communicating with everyone in the community we all learn and grow.
One more thing to remember: there is no reason to take anyone's actions or words personally.
Kenneth Wimer
Hi all,
On Dec 6, 2012, at 7:06 AM, DuBois, Scott L. wrote:
I just want to say that I read this thread and I think Andy is off to a great start.
I agree. Revitalizing the community through new membership and leadership is an ongoing process, a living thing. Nobody is perfect, everything can improve - the only way to improve is by making mistakes and learning from them. If we do all of this while communicating with everyone in the community we all learn and grow.
But we should communicate in advance, too ;)
At least on topics where we could expect that not everyone agrees on.
Greets Marcus
On Dec 6, 2012, at 9:24 AM, Marcus Moeller wrote:
Hi all,
On Dec 6, 2012, at 7:06 AM, DuBois, Scott L. wrote:
I just want to say that I read this thread and I think Andy is off to a great start.
I agree. Revitalizing the community through new membership and leadership is an ongoing process, a living thing. Nobody is perfect, everything can improve - the only way to improve is by making mistakes and learning from them. If we do all of this while communicating with everyone in the community we all learn and grow.
But we should communicate in advance, too ;)
At least on topics where we could expect that not everyone agrees on.
Right, I agree with this as well. We have to discuss the way forward together (and preferably in advance or it only leads to even longer discussion than would have been the case to begin with).
Kenneth Wimer
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