What has happen to the contest?

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Jaizkibel · Post by **Jaizkibel** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 8:25 am

Hi,

Does anybody know what has happen with de redesign contest ?!? I spent several hours designing a layout but I haven't heard news about it since a few weeks.

SeJo · Post by **SeJo** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 9:45 am

send a mail to gentoo-dev or to klieber...

aridhol · Post by **aridhol** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:31 am

And why is the Gentoo Foundation Web Site Redesign Contest-thread locked???

Fitzsimmons · Post by **Fitzsimmons** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 3:54 pm

About 30 seconds of research of the last page of the locked topic got me this:

http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20040 ... hap1_sect2
As an update to the previously announced website redesign contest, a number of excellent submissions were received from our users. Overall, we had more than two dozen responses from which five have been selected as finalists. We are currently awaiting confirmation from those finalists that they are indeed willing to complete their design and participate in the actual project. As soon as we have those confirmations, we will post the five finalists and allow the community to select a winner.

It looks like finalists have already been chosen and the contest is as good as done.

aridhol · Post by **aridhol** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 9:47 am

Fitzsimmons wrote:About 30 seconds of research of the last page of the locked topic got me this:

http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20040 ... hap1_sect2
As an update to the previously announced website redesign contest, a number of excellent submissions were received from our users. Overall, we had more than two dozen responses from which five have been selected as finalists. We are currently awaiting confirmation from those finalists that they are indeed willing to complete their design and participate in the actual project. As soon as we have those confirmations, we will post the five finalists and allow the community to select a winner.

It looks like finalists have already been chosen and the contest is as good as done.

Yes, that was written more than a month ago. If the finalist hasn't responded yet I think they should bedisqualified and we should turn to another contribution. If they cant give a confirmation within a months time, then I have serious doubts that they will even finish the design if they win. Today is the 16th of september. That was posted on 9th of august.

It feels like this has all gone to dust, which is sad because there was many good contributions.

And I still want to know why the thread was locked. They were still discussing the contest and the contribution. What I saw, no trolling or OOT discussion was taking place.

reisio · Post by **reisio** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 2:21 pm

people were making annoying posts at the end with false results...still they could've just deleted them

Anyways...no offense, but what do you really expect from a group that left the website as it is for so long. As much as it could be improved and purdyfied, it does _work_ already and is undoubtedly low on the todo list.

Post by **pjp** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 2:50 pm

aridhol wrote:And I still want to know why the thread was locked. They were still discussing the contest and the contribution. What I saw, no trolling or OOT discussion was taking place.

Did you really look?
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php? ... 04#1436904
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php? ... 51#1438651
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php? ... 28#1440828

reisio wrote:people were making annoying posts at the end with false results...still they could've just deleted them

Could have. I didn't have the same faith that it would stop.

Fitzsimmons already pointed out the important parts.