contest

We recently launched a sub theme of Zen for a client here in Virginia Beach, VA -- http://www.oogliebooglie.com. OoglieBooglie is a place where artists and art lovers gather. Artists create designs that they think would look great printed on a T shirt. OoglieBooglie and the members vote for the designs they think are the best. Then, OoglieBooglie prints the design on T shirts and sells them on the site. The artist then gets paid $2 USD per shirt sold on the site for an entire year.

A more detailed post is available at http://drupal.org/node/509602.

The community wants great new themes for Drupal. How do we get designers and themers to create them? Someone discussed a contest but may designers are oppsed to that.

A suggestion: Call for volunteers to participate in a team effort where they will be grouped with others (perhaps 2 designers paired with 2 themers/UI specialists) and have them come up with a team name which will also be the name of their theme.

Give them a deadline and some publicity on d.o. with their bios and photos or portfolio links.

We need a theme contest. It's been talked about many times over the past few years. I give you the previous attempts...

http://drupal.org/node/17876, http://drupal.org/node/25312, http://drupal.org/node/55460, http://drupal.org/node/6247#comment-9358

I think these attempts have failed due to lack of funding, support and clear organization. I want to get the ball rolling on this. Please reply with your ideas and comments. Here are my ideas I'm tossing around.

We thought the Apps for Democracy contest was a great way to show the DC government that Drupal is the leading open source platform for government project and a great chance to get them familiar with the platform. So we built a Drupal site and entered it in the contest. You can vote for it here. You don't need to log in so it only takes three seconds to vote, but voting closes tonight at midnight, so vote soon!

The site we built is called DC Bikes and you can check it out here. It's a guide to biking in DC and puts mostly city data on a map so people find detailed bike routes in DC, monitor bike theft in real time, and buy bike equipment on Craigslist. This site is built on Drupal and is the only submission that is 100% open source - we used open source Mapnik for our maps rather than Google Maps. Specifically we used <a href="http://drupal.org/project/feedapi>FeedAPI and Feed Element Mapper for the site's aggregation, and the spaces module allowed us to build it pretty quickly.

Hi, one of my Drupal friends suggested I post this here.

Our non-profit, The Collaboration Foundation, is a finalist for a $10,000 online 'Ideablob' grant. We need votes to win. The grant would be used to build an innovative non-profit Drupal site that will look like this: http://collaborationfoundation.org/images/web/cf_home.jpg

Please vote here:
http://ideablob.com/ideas/1247-The-Collaboration-Foundation-C

About The Collaboration Foundation

Drupalcon Boston will be awarding various Drupal showcase sites sometime during the con. For those who have time, vote on the Drupal sites submitted or submit your own site(s) for voting.

Cross posting from here: http://drupal.org/node/219476

There will be a Drupal site showcase and case study contest at the upcoming Boston Drupalcon.

Submitted sites will be voted online and judged by a panel of community nominated judges and some great prizes will be awarded to the winners! This is a chance to have all your hard work creating amazing Drupal sites recognized.

We have opened registration to the web site of our next Drupalcon in Barcelona. By registering at http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org you will be able to post your session proposals and post in the site's forums. Conference registration is NOT yet open but it will be soon. Keep an eye on it!

Also, a logo design contest has been opened. Deadline is June 10th. You can read all the details about the contest on http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org/news/2007/05/11/design-contest-drupal...

Go for it!

Whether or not you need funding for your Drupal project(s), it would be good for all Drupal users to vote for Drupal. Your vote could, ultimately, help with any needed funding you and/or other developers require in order to complete a Drupal project. Voting is now open and ends on November 7! There is $5,000 up for grabs!

As mentioned in Packt's Open Source CMS finalists announced, it would be great if folks would
vote TODAY for Drupal as "the best CMS" and help Drupal claim the $5,000 first place prize. Did I mention $5,000? ; )