[openbeos] Re: Icon Design Contest submission
- From: "Jorge G. Mare (a.k.a. Koki)" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 22:09:59 -0700 PDT
> Stephan wrote:
> >Something on "winner"... it isn't clear at all wether the contest
> > will have
> /one/ winner. The purpose is more that of >brain storming. It might
> very
> well happen that we take one set that most people liked and add a
> design
> property from >another set which many people liked as well (if
> possible).
Different people seem to be making different interpretations of the
same thing. Haiku announced a contest (headline quoted from haiku-
os.org: "Announcing the Haiku Icon Contest"), so that's what it should
be. And contests have clear winners; that is the nature of any contest.
> The vote is to help
> determine the new design, not to choose a specific set of icons. If
> it had
> been the latter, a full set of icons would have been required. The
> "winner"
> should be the Haiku OS community as a whole.
This was never stated in the official announcement of the contest,
which is what people will go by with.
If this was not supposed to be a contest, then it would have been
better articulated by announcing a "Haiku Icon Debate", "Haiku Icon
Counsel" or the like, clearly stating that submissions would be subject
to discussion by the community, and that the final artwork could be a
combination of various submissions.
Leaving things too much open to interpretation is an invitation to
confusion, and I think this is what is happening here.
Perhaps the (internal) communication leading to the decision-making
would be best done off the list before anything is announced to the
outside world. I think this would best serve the goal of Haiku, as it
would present a unified message that is easier to follow.
Koki
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