A few points:

• The final designs are chosen by four panel judges from the KDE Promotion team and you, via the forum poll
• The forum poll results will be normalised to a scale of 0-10 in common with the panel judges’ votes – so each design will end up with an overall score out of 50
• The panel judges’ votes are in and are very close, so your votes do matter
• There are eleven entries. For a while at the weekend the default settings for a few users meant that only nine showed on the first page, with the final two on a second page, but this is fixed now so all are on one page (unless you explicitly set your display preferences to be different)
• The poll will be open until 13 June

If you haven’t yet submitted your design for a KDE software label then you have just over a week (until 31 May) to do so.

There have been some great additions and refinements in the last few weeks and picking the best is going to be a difficult task. But we don’t mind if you make it still harder

We’ve already got some excellent ideas on the wiki and there will be a Dot article quite soon with one last call for artwork and setting out the process for choosing the best. In the meantime, it’s not too late to add your design.

If you submitted a design already, then hopefully you got a message from me thanking you and providing some additional guidance – in particular we’d like some horizontal web-banner like variations. If you are the Ivan who submitted an idea or you know who he is please get in touch (drop a comment here is fine or you can find my email address on the About page here). If you’re about to submit a design please give us a way of contacting you.

Design KDE swag

KDE has a new spreadshirt store with a couple of nice t-shirts by Sebas and some badges including some work by Ingo.

Under construction by Ingo

One of my suggestions - help needed

So, what’s in it for you? Well, you get to say you contributed to KDE and might get to see your creation wandering around Akademy, plus there is talk of giving the designers a free copy of the t-shirt, or whatever, containing their design.

Here’s some additional info courtesy of Justin on the kde-promo mailing list:

1. We do have some existing logos and things you may want to use or at least be aware of which are stored on the Community wiki. Logos are in the KDE clipart link at the top.
2. Spreadshirt allows for both “vector” and “pixel” designs but due to the nature of of the t-shirt medium it is highly advisable to design in a program that produces the vector graphics so we can scale them as needed without distorting your images. Though I think in some cases if we only have “pixel” versions we might be able to work with it if the resolution is high enough.
3. Since this is printed media you should design everything in CMYK colorschemes rather than RGB.
4. More details about the Spreadshirt “design” uploading process can be found on the Spreadshirt site
5. “Be Creative”…”Be Inspired”….”Be Free”

Provide your science photos for LabPlot

Something I started working on a number of months ago and have recently come back to is working on a website redesign for LabPlot.

The current draft is at lp.asinen.org (there’s still a lot to do, integration of the logo in the header definitely needs a lot of work). One of the things I want to have is a rotating image in the sidebar. I have a few already – one is displayed and the rotator is implemented but I’ve lost the copyright info for the others so only displaying one at present. It would be great to get photos from actual KDE people in Science – I’m after things that are fairly simple, optionally quite abstract from any branch of science. You should be prepared to license the image under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike (or something more liberal). You can send images to me at stua…@gmail.com (click on the dots to solve the CAPTCHA) or just put a link to an online image in the comments. Please specify the license and make it clear that you’re the copyright holder in your comment or email.