Koffice Icon Contest Proposal

[ismail (cartman) donmez]

>From the countless (!) replies you sent :-) and from the irc discussion on 
irc.freenode.net #koffice I assume its indeed a good idea.

Then first we should decide on the announcement. I am thinking something like 
this. (Comments are greatly appreciated)

P.S : Kexi is not mentioned because I dont know if it will be bundled with 
Koffice 1.3. Is it?

P.P.S : Please try to focus more on starting paragraph and application 
description when you comment.

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Koffice Development Group is proud to announce "The  Icon Kontest" which will 
be an icon creation contest for Koffice , integrated  office suite for KDE 
Desktop Environment. With this contest we would like to get Koffice ready for 
1.3 release visually. On the other hand developers  are already working to 
develop core system of Koffice. What we hope is with this contest Koffice 
will be better in its visual appeal as its already is in its core.


Applying for "The Icon Kontest" 

Everyone is free to enter to the contest. You can apply for contest alone or 
you can apply as a group of designers. You should submit 2 materials :

1- Appearances of all icons together at a reasonable size ( 22x22 or 32x32 )
2- And a link to the icon package ( You shouldn't send the whole package! )

All apply e-mails should be sent to some-reasonable-mailing-list at kde.org with 
the necessary material.


"The Icon Kontest" Timeline

Contest will be run for 1 month. After 1 month all icons will be examined by 
core Koffice developers & Koffice users and the artist/group who win the 
contest will be announced in one week .

Aim of "The Icon Kontest"

Purely our aim is to create a brand new koffice with its User Interface and 
with its powerful core.

Icons to Create :

In contest every artist supposed to create icons for following Koffice 
applications :

-- KoShell ( Work area for Koffice )
-- Kword ( Word Processing Suite )
-- KSpread ( Excel-like application )
-- KPresenter ( A presentation application similar to PowerPoint )
-- Krita ( An image creation/manipulation program )
-- Karbon14 ( A SVG creation/manipulation program )
-- Kformula ( A mathematical tool to create/edit formulas )
-- Kugar & Kugar Designer ( Report creating programs )
-- Kivio ( A Visio like application )

Icons should not be only limited to main application icons but toolbar icons 
should be designed too . So every artist should  have a copy of recent 
version ( 1.2.1 ) of Koffice. 

All Icon packages must contain 22x22, 32x32, 48x48, 64x64, 128x128 sized icons 
for *main* application icons and 22x22, 32x32, 48x48 sized icons for other 
parts ( toolbars , menus etc ) .

Preferred icon format is PNG but SVG is accepted too. Other icon formats must 
be converted to one of these formats before submitting.

The Prize : 

KDE ( as any other free software project ) is a non-profit organization. And 
Koffice developers are just volunteers around the world gathered together to 
create free software. Because of this contest prize will not be money but 
rather  the artist/group who win the contest will be credited in Koffice 
source and in all Koffice programs.

Legal Issues :

All submitted icons must belong to artist/group who submits it . Icons 
belonging some 3rd party will not be accepted for the contest.Icon licenses 
must be acceptable Open Source licenses ( GPL , LGPL , Artistic , MIT/X 
licenses are fine ) . 


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-- 
"Those who will be able to conquer software will be able to conquer the 
world." 

-- Tadahiro Sekimoto, president, NEC Corp.