GnuPG Logo Contest

Hi!

After 8 years the time has come to modernize the GnuPG logo
and to
work on a new layout of the website.

We appreciate Thomas Löffelholz's Gnus-guarding-the-door
logo which
has served us for a long time.  However, GnuPG has moved
forward and
is not anymore a plain OpenPGP application but features
other
protocols as well (S/MIME and partly Secure Shell). 
Further, the
current logo is too detailed to be used as an icon or to be
printed on
a t-shirt.  Thus we want to have a new modern logo.

To get to such a logo we try something new: We ask you to
donate to
the logo contest and then offer the collected funds to the
winner of
that contest.

Here are the rules for the contest:

* Submissions should be send by mail to logo-contest at
gnupg dot org.
  Sending just an URL is recommended.  At least one PNG
scaled to 300
  pixel on one axis is required. Sending a design concept is
  appreciated.

* The design should convey the message of freedom and
privacy.  It
  must not exploit or offend anyone's sex, race or
religion, be
  obscene or propagate violence.

* The logo shall be available in a free format (bitmap or
vector) and
  eventually made available in source form, modifiable using
Free
  Software (xcf, fig, etc.).  The submitter's name and
snail mail
  address is required for exchanging legal papers.

* The winning submitter must agree to assign the copyright
to the FSF
  and attach no other restrictions to the use of the logo. 
All
  submitters must declare that they do not infringe the
rights of
  another party and that publishing their logos for the
purpose of
  this contest is acceptable.

* The contest runs until *October 31, 2006*.  A jury will
then select
  the winning submission.  The winner will receive 50% of
the
  collected funds.  The three top rated submitters are
eligible for a
  gnupg dot org mail alias.

* All contributors to GnuPG who signed a copyright
assignment with the
  FSF, actually provided code or translations and do not
participate
  in the contest make up the jury to decide on the new logo.
 The file
  AUTHORS in the GnuPG 1.4.5 tarball has a list of these
folks.
  Simple majority is used to decide.


Collecting and spending the donations:

* The donations are collected for the purpose of creating a
logo and a
  new website layout.

* The winner of the logo contest will receive 50% of the
collected
  funds.  The leftover funds will be used for a follow-up
contest to
  redesign and re-implement the website.

* A list of sponsors will be published after the final logo
has been
  selected.

* In case that for unforeseeable reasons a winner could be
determined
  or we cannot spend the collected funds, they will be
donated to the
  Free Software Foundation Europe.

* The funds are collected through Paypal online payment. 
For legal
  reasons and ease of setup they will be collected by g10
Code GmbH, a
  company headed by GnuPG's principal author Werner Koch. 
Note, that
  the tax office will likely require to transfer a 16% VAT,
thus the
  collected funds need to be reduced by this amount.  g10
Code will do
  a weekly report on the received funds as well as a final
report
  after selection of the winner.


To donate to this contest and for latest information please
go to
http://ww
w.gnupg.org/misc/logo-contest.html .


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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Hello,

Back in September I announced a contest for a new GnuPG
logo.  By the
end of October I received 41 submissions from 31 parties. 
The
original plan was to let all the authors of GnuPG who signed
a
copyright assignment with the FSF to vote on a new logo. 
However, I
only received 11 answers and there was no clear result: Only
one
submission got 2 votes.  It would have been unfair to take
this as a
decision.

So I looked around and found the CIVS [1] which implements a
Condorcet
voting system.  I fed it with the addresses of all
subscribers of the
gnupg-users and gnupg-devel mailing lists and started the
process.
From the 1231 unique subscribers, 199 took the time to rank
the
submissions and casted their vote.  This time the result is
pretty
clear:

  Thomas Wittek [2] from Cologne is the lucky winner.

He will soon see his design used with GnuPG and also receive
50
percent of the received donation (we received as of now 215
Euro but
further donations won't be rejected [3]).  Unfortunately I
can't offer
him a mail alias thomas at gnupg because this has been
assigned to the
creator of the old logo.

Ranks 2 and 3 are held by Robbie Tingey and Michel Blinn.
They will
receive an email alias for their contribution.

If you like to see the new logo, point your browser to

  http://logo-contest.gnu
pg.org

You will also find also the detailed results of the ballot,
all
submissions and the list of sponsors.

I want to thank all who submitted a logo to the contest as
well as
those who worked on a logo but submitted it too late.  There
are some
really cool designs and I hope that some can be reused for
another
project.

Special thanks to the sponsors: Intevation GmbH, Markus
Komosinski,
Parag Mehta, Folkert van Heusden, Ralph Angenendt, Alexander
Tomisch,
Robert Workman, Simon Josefsson.

The remaining funds will be used to help with a new website
design.


Many thanks to all,

  Werner



[1] http://www.
cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html
[2] http://gedankenkon
strukt.de/ueber/ (German)
[3] http://ww
w.gnupg.org/misc/logo-contest.html

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Werner Koch                                      <wkgnupg.org>
The GnuPG Experts                                http://g10code.com
Join the Fellowship and protect your Freedom!    http://www.fsfe.org


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