OSFlash Mascot Contest

We are organizing a contest to determine the OSFlash mascot (Flash Tux).

This was previously going to be a contest to determine the design of the whole site but (a) we didn't get enough interest and (b) Nicolas Coevoet kindly volunteered his time, design skills and DokuWiki experience to create a new design for the site which I (Aral) tweaked a bit before placing it live on 8th Oct, 2005.

More information wil be made available on this page in the coming days, including the list of judges, rules, criteria, deadline, sponsors and prizes.

• Mascot: A cross between Tux (the Linux mascot which has become almost synonymous with open source) and The Flash. Basically, Tux wearning a costume that reminds you of The Flash (http://digitalinflux.com/exhibits/flash/flash_1024.jpg) but with the Flash “f” rune (http://www.glassmode.net/images/flash_rune.gif) on the costume.
• Style: Tux must be in the Tux G2 style by Overlord. See http://forum.crystalxp.net/index.php?showtopic=2585 for an English translation of Overlord's tutorial on how to create Tux G2. See http://tux.crystalxp.net/index.php?let=&aut=&cat=tux2 for Tux 2 variations.
• Extra points: “OSFlash” logo rendered in a crystal look. You can see the logo (“OSFlash”) at the top of the page. We may or may not use the logo, based on how well it fits with the design of the site (but I'm sure we will if it blows us away!)

• Nice and shiny (see http://crystalxp.net for examples)

• Aral Balkan (OSFlash co-founder, Ariaware, Flashant.org)
• Nicolas Cannasse (OSFlash co-founder, MTASC, MotionTwin)
• Mike Chambers (Macromedia, Flash JavaScript Integration Kit)
• Molly E. Holzschlag (Author/Instructor/Web Designer)
• Sonke Rohde (OSFlash co-founder, Riva)

November 8, 2005 (Which happens to be Aral's birthday!)

Levitated.net (Jared Tarbell)

Exact details will be available shortly. Currently, we have:

• A limited edition print from Jared Tarbell
• Books from friends of ED.
• I'm going to ask Macromedia if we can have a license of Studio 8 for the winner and perhaps two Flash licenses for the runners up.