by Lockergnome on October 24, 2006 at
7:44 pm ·
Categorized by Event / Related
Information OpenOffice.org is becoming more and more
widely used. OpenOffice.org’s Open Document Format (ODF) has
received both OASIS and the International Organization for
Standardization (ISO) approval - a first for an office file format -
and some countries, such as Belgium and Malaysia, to name but two,
will be migrating government offices to ODF. But for all the
application’;s and formatR17;s popularity, users lack a wealth
of templates and clipart. Let’s change that!
Here then is
the challenge: Create and submit templates and clipart as part of the
competition and be eligible for a share of the cash and other awards
totaling over US$5000. (You are always welcome to send in works
outside the contest as well.) Winners will be given the opportunity of
including their templates in the OpenOffice.org installation sets
(details on licensing here).
The OpenOffice.org Documentation Project is running this
competition in conjunction with Worldlabel.com, which is generously
providing the funding for the prizes. We hope this contest is but a
start of others, and we also think it is a fine occasion for the
community to show their support of OpenOffice.org and contribute. We
are thus calling on each user of the suite to provide templates or
clipart items and send these in. These will ultimately become publicly
available from here.
Contest Duration/Deadline
The competition
will run from September 20, 2006 to October 31, 2006 at 23h59EDT
(GMT-4). Submissions with a received datestamp later than 23h59EDT
(GMT-4) on October 31, 2006 will not be eligible. Awards and prizes
will be announced on December 1, 2006.
Conditions of
participation
- Everyone can participate.
- All templates submitted must be presented in open OpenOffice.org
template format (e.g., * ott * for Writer templates). Clipart may be
in any of the graphic formats OpenOffice.org is able to import, plus
SVG as the SVG
import filter, allows these to be opened. Graphics submitters
should take care to ensure that their submission is not modified by
the export/import process, as the file will be opened in
OpenOffice.org and it is this version that will be the one considered
as your contribution.
- All templates must comply with our
licensing schemes. We explain that in more detail here.
