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Design Slashdot's New T-Shirt and Win Cool Stuff!
It's been some time since we had a new shirt design for folks to buy,
and it's time to change that. More specific guidelines for the contest
follow, but in short, we're taking design submissions starting
immediately. Winners will get a $75 credit at ThinkGeek, as well as 3 copies of of
their t-shirt design. Winners will be chosen by me.
Technical Specs
- Designs should be for Black or White shirts. Or even better, both!
- No larger than 12" wide by 15" high
- No more than 5 colors (Black & White Count as Colors People!)
- Entries must be either 300 DPI Bitmap (JPG, PNG, Tiff etc), or Vector Format (PS, EPS, PDF)
- I strongly recommend the use of Slashdot's favorite shade of green in any design submission. Slashdot's "Green" is 006666 in hex. 0,102,102 in RGB. Entries will not be excluded for failing to use the green, but I like it, and I'm the judge!
- You can try anything: From witty slogans to fancy design.
- Avoid photographs & shadows since they don't print very well at 5 colors.
- Parody is fine, but I'd rather designs be original.
- Email tshirts at cmdrtaco.net, and provide a URL to your design(s). If this isn't possible, you may attach your submission to an email.
- Winners will be selected in a few weeks by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda (Me!) based on their creativity and design.
- There may be more than one winner if there are several good entries! I have permission to select as many as 3 winners if there are many good entries!
- The submittor of each winning design will get $75 credit at ThinkGeek
- 3 Copies of your T-Shirt Design
- Bragging rights at LUGs, CompSci Labs, Cubicle Farms, and Tech Tradeshows around the world.
Finally our lawyer demands that you read the Official Rules. Do it!
Slashdot is too U.S. centric, you ins.. :-)
"This Contest is for United States residents only. Residents of Vermont, Arizona, Tennessee and Puerto Rico are not eligible to participate in the Contest. Void in the U.S. Virgin Islands and U.S. military installations. Employees of the Sponsor, or any of Sponsor's subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising and promotional agencies, or members of any such employee's immediate families or households, are not eligible to participate in the Contest. THIS CONTEST IS VOID WHERE PROHIBITED." One would think in such an international community that perhaps, just perhaps it would be nice to open a simple contest to the rest of the world. I have a fairly good idea why (lawyers cost money, lawyers and researchers check laws in individual countries for the legalities of running a contest/give-a-way/promotion... Slashdot may not have the money to throw around... blah blah blah), but it still would be nice.
Quit your bitching. You also get bragging rights for an undetermined amount of time. That's worth more than most money prizes (except prizes of $1 million or more {obviously}). You get to say that you designed the slashdot t-shirt.
Even if they are owned by a major company. Major companies have budgets! Not only do they own slashdot, but they sorceforge.net too. These to sites alone provide a lot of service and value to the open source community as a whole. I doubt they are making a profit off of these two sites. In reality, you should be thankful that there is a $75 credit a ThinkGeek. In a downturned economy where a lot of companies are not making a lot of money, this is a good prize. You don't have to enter if you don't like the prize.
At the next eco-hypocrisy-meeting, count the private jets used to get to the meeting. Should be interesting to see that
I wonder why..
Less is more !