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 format'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 USD$5000. (You are always welcome to send in works outside the conference.) Winners will be given the opportunity of including their templates in the OpenOffice.org installation sets (details on licensing below).
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 http://documentation.openoffice.org/Samples_Templates/
The competition will run from September 20, 2006 to October 13, 2006 at 23h59EDT (GMT-4). Submissions datestamped later than 23h59EDT (GMT-4) on October 13, 2006 will not be eligible. Awards and prizes will be announced on November 1, 2006.
Templates and clipart submitted to OpenOffice.org in this contest must be licenced under either the Public Document License (PDL) license or LGPL licence. These are the licenses we use for non-code works. For more information on PDL, see http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/PDL.html; on LGPL, see http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/lgpl_license.html.
Winners will also be given the opportunity to have their submissions included in OpenOffice.org installation sets available from the OpenOffice.org site. Our policy holds that all work included in the sets have copyright jointly assigned to the author and to Sun Microsystems. For more information, see http://www.openoffice.org/license.html and our FAQ on the issue, http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-licensing.html.
Business cards, letterheads, cards, Memos and faxes, invoices accounting templates, newsletters, resumes, expense reports, base forms, presentation template, cd cover, spreadsheet templates, calenders... for Writer, Calc, Base... Use text fields for folks to personalize, have areas for businesses to insert logos, create all types of useful templates for all types of home and business uses for our community to share.
Borders, frames, decorative objects, business objects, animals, flowers, backgrounds, OO Doodads.... let your creative juices flow.
Artistic merit of the design
Originality of design
Functional usability of submitted templates or clipart
Collections of a design theme, For example. The same design theme for a business card and letterhead or, say, a collection of animals with same art form.
Some Ideas for templates: Form letters for businesses, i.e. late payment, sales letters. Industry specific templates, i.e. educational, legal, healthcare.
Entries in different languages
For each entry, use the link in the list below that describes the component with which your submission will be used, attach it to the email message and send it:
Include your name in the email message plus an explanation of what the template does. A screenshot of the work would also be appreciated but not essential. If applicable for printing products, please reference the manufacturer and product number. Licensing and other information should be included in the document properties.
Add the following text to the document properties:
Your full name
A working email address
Your full address including city, state/province, postal code and country
License: PDL or LGPL
The following declaration:
"I confirm that I am the sole author of this template or graphic. This work is created from my own ideas and materials. No third party license or materials are included that will affect licensing under the Public Document License (PDL). Furthermore I confirm that I am entitled to place the submitted template or graphic under this license."
For more information, please ask on the contest_information@documentation.openoffice.org mailing list.
PRIZES FOR TEMPLATES 1st Prize USD750 2nd Prize USD300 3rd Prize USD250 4th and 5th Prizes USD200 100s of Tshirts and other Openoffice.org goodies for templates which will be part of the Documentation Project. |
PRIZES FOR CLIPART 1st Prize USD750 2nd Prize USD300 3rd Prize USD250 4th and 5th Prizes USD200 100s of Tshirts and other Openoffice.org goodies for clipart submitted which will be part of the Documentation Project. |
Our contest sponsor, Worldlabel.com, has committed USD$5000 to expand the number of templates in the OpenOffice.org document project repository. To have a share of this sum, your template or collection of clipart should be a significant contribution. A panel of three judges will evaluate and select the finalists and, with the co-operation of the sponsor, allocate prizes in proportion.