Contest feedback!

Hello everyone! As you know we have concluded the first contest. We are all very happy with the number of submissions and the result we got out of it. We intend to do a second contest which instead is about designing our wiki / website. But before announcing this contest we would like your feedback.

What was good with the first contest, what was bad, what was damn ugly?

Help us improve the next contest by adding your comments to this blog post or just emailing contest@xmms.se.

Thanks!

Voting update...

I just wanted to let you all know that we will tell the world who won the contest in the beginning of May! Please look back at this blog for more details soon!

Next steps: About voting

Hello everyone! Now that all logos are posted we are ready to start voting. Since we have well over hundred entries this will take a while. Expect the final result with in one and a half week to two weeks. Sorry about the delay but we want to make sure we get it right :-)

We will be using the condorcet voting method to decide what logo that represent XMMS2 best.

Keep your fingers crossed!

P.s. Please continue to post comments to the logos here, voters are instructed to take comments and ideas into account. D.s.

"Ropa inte hej ..."

"Ropa inte hej förenns du är över ån", it's a Swedish saying. It more or less means that you shouldn't count the points until the ball is in the goal. That's what I did yesterday when I said that all logos was uploaded. I missed a few, and I am really really sorry. Let's blame someone, I am blaming the cola for not containing not enough caffeine to make me more alert.

Hope you understand.

Deadline reached!

So the contest is over. If your logo still isn't here and you sent it before the 00:00 UTC timelimit, don't worry. We have a huge backlog, we where flooded with logos the last day.

We want to send a HUGE thanks to all that have sent in a entry.

During the weekend I will upload the last few entries and then I will post the procedures to vote. The voting should take place in next week and we hope to have a winner before next weekend. Hope you can stay patient a bit more.

Last week of submissions

Hello,

Sorry for the late update, but I have been busy with other things.

Just wanted to make sure that everyone knows that the logo shop is open for one more week. Then we will start voting. We probably will do voting in (at least) two rounds. More information about this during the week.

Get inkscape running! You have a couple of more days before the show is over. Remember that good prizes (Gift certificate for $400 at Amazon!) are at stake!

Thanks.

We are slow to react right now...

Hello all!

We are totally overwhelmed by the number and quality of logo submission we have received! Thanks everyone for participating. Some of you have contacted us wondering why your logo hasn't been posted yet. There is a simple reason for that: We don't have time right now, you guys flood us with logos and we are but two persons to work with it. The situation is worse this week because I am away on those horrible real-life errands.

But don't worry! If your logo is submitted before the deadline it will be uploaded to the blog, we just have a bit of a backlog now! If your logo breaks any rules we will contact you to get it fixed you won't be in the dark.

We ask for forgiveness and hope that you can have a bit patience, I suspect that it will be better next week!

Thanks for you time!

Rise of the toads

Sorry to interrupt the flow of entries in the competition with this post, but hopefully this will clear a few things up.

This competition is a bit of an experiment. We're trying to use a slightly more open and iterative model than usual for this type of competition. It is an adaptation of the process that works so well for code in open source projects, where patches are thrown around and beaten into shape after rounds of feedback to make it perfect. I think it will be very interesting to see how it works out for for art/graphics.

Allowing everyone to comment on all submissions is a way of encouraging the artists to improve on their work and make an even better logo. Everyone aiming for the perfect logo, just as we strive for the perfect code. But when reviewing code, we can usually improve on many technical points, whereas the logos are works of art, and personal taste plays a much larger role. In this case, the comments are based much more on the taste of the person making the comment than on some technical merit. So don't get sucked in by the comments, as they can be very misleading - and only reflect a single person's opinion (and (s)he probably has really bad taste anyway).

Another reason for the openness is to promote diversity. Artists should be able to look at the submissions so far and think "Hmmm.. Everyone bases their logos around some text. Maybe if I draw this ugly naked peeing toad I have in mind, my logo will stand out more."

Oh, you wished that this post would end here, didn't you? Let me just do another bad comparison with how new code is accepted into open source projects. The more interesting the change in the code is, the more discussion it gets - no one wants to waste time discussing trivial, or really bad code. The same goes for art, all good art is art that puts people's emotions in motion, making them happy or upset. So a submission getting many comments probably has a better potential of becoming the perfect logo.

Come on! Upset us! And remember, this is an experiment. So if it turns out to be a bad idea, it is our fault, but please help us carry out this experiment: make logos, make submissions and make comments.

Competition is on.

Internet 2007-03-12, XMMS2 Team.

XMMS2 Team officially announced its graphic competition today. The competitions goal is for the popular media player to gain a new look and to increase awareness of the project. The competitions will be split up in two parts: the first will be for a new logotype. The second part, which will be launched after the conclusion of the first, will aim for a new look for the wiki with reusable elements for client authors to use.

First prize in both competitions is an Amazon.com gift certificate valid for $400. The prize money for this contest came from last year's Google Summer of Code program. The competition will start today and last submission date will be 2007-04-13.

To compete or get more information please visit http://xmms2-contest.blogspot.com/