Here is the announcement of the logo contest I intend to send out later today, since the gimp contest starts today. If anyone has commments please tell me about them so I can make changes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ As you might know Debian GNU/Linux is the second largest Linux distribution, The Debian project is more then just Linux now: we are also working on a HURD distribution, in close cooperation with the HURD developers. Currently we have a semi-official logo, which you can see at http://www.debian.org/logos/debianlogo-2.jpg . A majority of Debian developers however is not happy with this logo, partly due to how it was chosen and partly due to how it looks. As a result we are searching for a new logo that might replace the current one. Another change that we want to make is that we would like to have two logos: one logo with a very liberal license that everyone is free to use (for example on things like webpages, shirts, etc.), and a more official logo with a restricted license which can only be used on more official things (like Cd's produced with our official iso-images). Please note both license are not finished yet. Of course an important item is: what exactly constitutes a logo? Bruce Perens gave the following description of a logo once (Nov 1997): I think it's important to look at a logo for a very short time without any prejudice (less than 1/2 second), and then think to yourself "what did I see?". The immediate answer should be "the debian logo". It should not be confused with anything else like two letters, the "Tux" the penguin, etc. This should give a nice indication of what a logo is all about. The following criteria also apply: * it must look good in black & white * it must be scalable * it should not be too detailed, so it works in low resolution * works both with and without text at the bottom (can be ignored if the text `Debian' is part of the logo) With the extra requirement that each submission must consist of 2 logos as I explained before. The winning logo will be decided on by the Debian developers. Since there are a lot of those it will take 3-4 weeks to decide who the winner is. The winner will be awarded an email-address at debian.org, a CD-set with Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 for the architectures of his/her choice (alpha, i386, m68k, or sparc) and ever-lasting fame for creating the one and only Debian logo-set. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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