[advocacy-discuss] Logo colours ...

[Michal Bielicki]

Christopher Frost wrote:
> 	I would like to suggest the proposal for a Logo contest, or a competition. I 
> think it would give a lot of people the chance to express their feelings 
> about OpenSolaris.
>
> 	My suggestion is to create a contest in which anyone can contribute entries 
> toward. Then after all the entries are received (we can set a deadline for 
> that), post all the entries and allow anyone to vote to narrow them down to 
> 10 finalists (this number is of course flexible). With these 10 finalists we 
> then can do the final vote to choose the contest winner.
>
> 	I say "anyone" because I do mean anyone. No one person can say they have a 
> better eye for logo choices than another. It requires no qualifications, and 
> therefore I don't think it should be limited to just core contributors. 
> Anyone with an art background or a passion should be able to contribute also.
>
> 	A few things would have to be expressed before the contest were to start of 
> course. Things like image size, format, probably a submission of the 
> contributor agreement with each logo submission, and of course a prize or 
> prizes. Perhaps we could give written recognition of contest winners 
> abilities and/or some prizes. I think a sweatshirt, jacket, or some type of 
> shirt with the winners name and logo on it would be a nice prize. Perhaps the 
> 9 runner ups could get t-shirts or stickers as well as written recognition 
> somewhere on the website thanking them for their contributions.
>
> 	Does anyone have any suggestions, ideas, comments or criticism for this?
>
> Mahalo,
>   
I like it a lot. Especially the anyone part of it. Seems to be a nice 
way to get some people involved that would never even look at our stuff 
otherwise :)
What would be needed is a nice press release and some SUN help t get 
that to all the right places ?


cheers

Michal

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