Maemo.org logo contest

The contest will happen, but we are still defining the last details. As soon as we are done the contest will be properly announced in maemo.org

As the Maemo brand is being redefined, maemo.org becomes clearly the space of collaboration of the Maemo community, organized around open source tools and ways of working. A new "maemo.org" logo defined and produced by the community will embody the new values. Once selected, it will become the logo used in *.maemo.org and it will inspire a new web layout to be implemented this year.

1 Proposal

Proposal

Logo contest to be organized in the following terms:

Design the new maemo.org logo
Submit it before August
Win a trip to OSiM World and the Maemo Summit (Berlin, 17-19/Sep) + a Nokia N810 WiMAX Edition

Rules

Inspired by https://help.launchpad.net/logo/ (with some ideas integrated from http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/LogoContest)

All maemo.org registered users can participate presenting one or more proposals under their name.
All the proposals will be submitted by the authors publicly in this wiki.
Logo submitters agree to licence their submissions under Creative Commons BY-ND. The submitter will keep ownership, and be credited as the designer of the logo.
The deadline for submissions is 2008/07/27 23:59 UTC.
No age restrictions apply to submission, but some prizes may not be feasible for underage contestants.
One winner will be selected by a procedure to be defined by the community.
Nokia employees may enter the competition, but are not eligible to receive a prize, in the event that they win. In the case a Nokia employee's submission is chosen, the prize will go to the runner-up.
The winning logo should be original, and clear of trademark encumbrance.

Submission guidelines

Logos must be available in a vector format (SVG, PDF, AI), but should be submitted as PNG.
The size of the logo should be approximately 500 pixels on its longest axis.
The winning logo will be used in contexts ranging from a small 16x16 favicon to a high quality t-shirt print, and should adapt well to all resolutions in between.
"maemo.org" should be the only text used. It should be converted to paths in your vector format file.
Fresh look recommended. No need to be tied to the current logo or maemo.org website design.
The best logo will represent the values of the maemo.org community.
Avoid any resemblance to Nokia fonts, color schemes or graphical elements.
Avoid gradients, and prefer a small number of colours.

Post-contest

The winner plus whoever else wants to help will develop also designs for a shirt and a sticker. Nokia will fund the production. They will be distributed in the Maemo Summit and other channels to be decided.

Procedure for submitting logos

Submitters must have a maemo account, and sign their entries in the wiki.

Submitters must follow the following procedure for submitting their logos:

The logo will be uploaded to Special:Upload. Please name your images in this format:

Maemo.org_logo_contest_<your username>[_<entry number>].png

and enter this into the summary:

maemo.org logo contest entry from [[User:<your username>]]

After the logo has been uploaded, the user should then add their submission to the bottom of maemo.org logo contest entries in this format:

=== <your username> ===
 
[[Image:Maemo.org_logo_contest_<your username>.png]]

For example, User:GeneralAntilles's submission would be uploaded here: Image:Maemo.org_logo_contest_GeneralAntilles.png, and his entry would look like:

=== GeneralAntilles ===

[[Image:Maemo.org_logol_contest_GeneralAntilles.png]]

Users submitting several entries should use a gallery, like this:


=== username ===

<gallery Caption="username" widths="300px" perrow="3">
Image:Maemo.org_logo_contest_[username]_1.png|Caption 1
Image:Maemo.org_logo_contest_[username]_2.png|Caption 2
Image:Maemo.org_logo_contest_[username]_3.png|Caption 3
</gallery>

which will result in something like this: