* '''Launchpad Entry''': UbuntuSpec:deviantart-theme-competition
 * '''Packages affected''': ubuntu-wallpapers

== Summary ==

Ubuntu 8.10's theme revamp should engage with the large community of creative-commons artists at DeviantArt. An idea is to run a competition on DeviantArt to design new wallpapers for Ubuntu 8.10, to be released in October 2008. The competition would be similar to Inkscape's theme competitions at http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/16001755/ or FreeSpire's at http://news.deviantart.com/article/21252/. The competition would hopefully be promoted on the front page of DeviantArt, via various Ubuntu related sites, and social news media.


== Rationale ==

Nowadays with more and more people wanting to join in and help out Ubuntu, artists included. They just need a prompt or a clear way in. Examples of this are Ubuntu Brainstorm, where before there was the Idea Pool which few people contributed to, now there is a clear and easy way to contribute ideas. This means that there has been a massive increase in the amount of idea's contributed. The wallpaper competition would do the same thing, it would make it easier for artists to contribute to Ubuntu in a clear and easy way.

== Implementation ==

The competition rules will be as follows:

 * Wallpapers must be beautiful
 * Original artworks, submitted by their authors.
 * Use Ubuntu's existing palette
 * Creative Commons licensed
 * Include your name or company name in the file name
 * Work well as a wallpaper. This means:
    * Good contrast against the white text use for desktop icons
    * Not too busy to distract from the desktop's contents
 * Be suitable for children and different cultures
 * Vector images should be submitted as an SVG, in both widescreen and standard resolution aspects.
 * Raster images must be submitted in both widescreen and standard aspects, and openable in Gimp - this means Photoshop files are OK, but may not use layer    effects.

The winner will be decided by Mark Shuttleworth

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