[Clipart] contest to celebrate OCAL release 12

[Bryce Harrington]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 12:19:34AM -0800, Jon Phillips wrote:
> As we discussed before, I think we should have a contest to celebrate
> our release 12 -- thx Nicu for the reminder. We should set some sort of
> goal for a clipart submission, then pick the winner, and then give them
> a free and nice design book (value like ~ 20-40 USD).
> 
> Before I postulated about the types of contests we could have, but I
> think that Nicu is right that we should have an low barrier for entrance
> contest. Basically, we should start the contest on APRIL 1 and then end
> it on the last day of the month. Then, we need a way to select the
> winner and then will mail them the book. I can collect donations for the
> book to my paypal account (phillipsjd (a-t) gmail.com) and deal with
> purchasing and shipping the book. I guess that is if you all think a
> nice design book is a good gift?

Be careful about postage.  If the winner is in Europe, for example,
international postage could get rather high...  A gift certificate to a
book seller might be a more fair way to go...

Bryce