Getting back to the logo contest

[Jason Bainbridge]

All,

Below is my attempt at a potential story for the dot to advertise the
contest for the new logo for the website and subdomains please hack it
to pieces to make it good enough to post so we can get the wheels
rolling:

Competition to design new KDE.org website logo

The KDE Web Team would like to announce a new competition to design a
logo for the KDE.org website to complement the new site design, the
competition will run for just over a month with entries closing on 30th
April 2003. The prize for the competition will be the honour of having
your work displayed on KDE.org and it's subdomains with full credit
given for each use of the image.

The only requirement for the contents of the image is that it contains a
variation of the KDE gear
(http://www.kde.org/stuff/images/kdelogo_svg.png or
http://static.kdenews.org/dot.kde.org/TopicImages/official.gif). The
image should be no more than 400 by 80 pixels (?) in size and be in PNG
format. The logo should also be able to be easily customised for each of
the KDE.org subdomains such as Usability and PIM so it is a requirement
that the source file also be available, it would be preferrable if this
was in Gimp's .XCF format but Photoshop's .PSD will also be acceptable.

The image will need to be licensed under one of the following licenses
GNU General Public License, GNU Free Documentation License, The Design
Science License or The Free Art License detailed at the following link
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#OtherLicenses.

To enter the competition please email your image in PNG format (under
40kb please) to webmaster at kde.org, then once the competition has closed
the KDE Web Team will review all entries making a shortlist of the best
entries received. The author's of the shortlisted entries will then be
asked to provide the source image file for their design and the
shortlist will then be used to form a poll that will be open to the
public and run over the course of 2 weeks (?). The winner of the
competition will be announced here on dot.kde.org and of course notified
by email with their work displayed as the new logo for KDE.org.

If you have any queries about the competition please email
webmaster at kde.org.

I know it's a bit rough at the moment but I just want to get it underway
and not procrastinate on it. 

Nb. If you're wondering why I put the request for the source file before
holding the poll it was to avoid any problems with the source file
suddenly not being available once the winner is announced.

Regards,
-- 
Jason Bainbridge
KDE Web Team - http://kde.org		
webmaster at kde.org