Group:Manchester/Logo Competition

Logo Competition

Manchester Free Software is having a competition to find a logo for the group.

The winner will receive a hardback copy of Richard Stallman's "Free Software, Free Society" and a t-shirt with their winning design.

Brief for Entries

• Should be easily recognisable, visually pleasing and easily reproduced in different mediums (such as t-shirts, posters and web pages).
• Should echo themes of software freedom and Manchester.
• Should be submitted in a vector graphics format format (e.g SVG), though high resolution bitmap might be acceptable.
• Should be created solely using free software but entries created using non-free software will be accepted.
• Should look good when printed in monochrome and shouldn't use too many different colours.
• Entries must be less than 2MB in size.
• Must be licensed to allow sharing and modification. Preferably Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike, although CC-Zero, CC-BY and other licenses are acceptable.

Eligibility of Entrants

• Anyone can enter, regardless of age, geographic location, etc.
• There is no limit to the number of entries per entrant

How to Enter

• 1. Create the logo(s).
• 2. Send an email to logo@manchester.fsuk.org with the SVG or other image file attached by 23:59, Sunday 4th October 2009.
• 3. Please include your name and (if desired) a link to your blog/website etc.
• 4. State in the email the license you would like to use (e.g. CC-BY-SA).
• 5. Your entry will be processed and uploaded on to the Entries section.

Deadline

• Entries must be received by 23:59, Sunday 4th October 2009.

Voting

• The winner will be decided by voting..
• Voting will commence Monday 5th October 2009 and end 23:59, Saturday 10th October 2009.
• Anyone who was a member of the MFS mailing list at 1pm 16th September is eligible to vote.
• One person, one vote.
• Details of how to vote and the system used will be given nearer the time..

Entries

The entries go here...