OpenOffice.org Design Contest

lisah writes, "OpenOffice.org, along with co-sponsor WorldLabel.com, will give away more then $5,000 in cash and prizes to the winners of a template and clip-art design contest scheduled to run until October 13, 2006. Organizers are looking for original designs that are useful to multiple users but, in terms of creativity, they say the sky's the limit. Submissions can range from budgeting spreadsheets and personal finance templates to funky graphics and presentation templates, but must run on one of the suite's four main applications: Writer, Calc, Draw, or Impress."

Comments

Re:Geeks don't do art.

[Anonymous Coward]

> You're either good technically or a good artist. Not both. That's the way it's always been.

Totally. Leonardo Da Vinci was a no talent hack of an artist and a pathetic technologist.

Clip art and Templates

[DavidD_CA]

This is one of those things that people take for granted, but they come in very handy when you need them.

As a licensed Office user, you can pull down literally thousands (probably closer to 100,000) various types of clip art, stock photography, and templates. There's probably 20 different Invoice templates alone, all very good.

And with Office 2003, opening a template from the web or adding clip art is all integrated into the application.

Little things like this will help OO become more mainstream, but I think it still has a long way to go.

Openoffice doesn't deserve cliparts

[Anonymous Coward]

as long as they don't support natively SVG.
SVG is the best standard for vectorial cliparts, and not supporting svg is really a shame. Bring real svg support to openoffice instead of the lame sun-java-only plugin, and then people will bring cliparts to openoffice.