[Clipart] SOM Banners Contest Result

[Jon Phillips]

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 09:11 +1000, Ryan Lerch wrote:
> I think that the kinks in cchost that are hanging around in the competition
> area caused most of your grief, the link that I had up in the important news
> section promoting the comp did not seem to work.
> 
> Cheer,s
> 
> ryanlerch

That sucks. We just can't allow contests to get released that are
broken. I'll do my best to iron out kinks when I can...oh, did I mention
that ccHost is getting gutted of those phptal templates, so will just
use html and php for templates, which have confused ppl. in the
past...anyhow...

Jon

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: clipart-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:clipart-
> > bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Greg Bulmash
> > Sent: Friday, 21 September 2007 7:56 AM
> > To: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
> > Subject: Re: [Clipart] SOM Banners Contest Result
> > 
> > On 9/20/07, Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
> > > I think a combination of both...in the future just need to make sure
> > > everything is working prior to launch of a competition...
> > 
> > No, Jon, it's not both.
> > 
> > The winning banner showed 68 downloads when I just looked at the
> > contest page.  After all the contestants, judges, and the merely
> > curious looked at it, there were 68 downloads in all that time?
> > 
> > Even if there weren't a whole lot of designers who took an interest,
> > if there was a decent-sized community that was interested in viewing,
> > voting, and commenting, you'd think there would be more than 68
> > downloads.
> > 
> > If Ivo worked hard to sell it, he needs work on his selling skills.
> > If he didn't, well, then he needs work on setting realistic
> > expectations.  "If you build it, they will come" only works in the
> > movies.
> > 
> > Perhaps a "driving traffic to your contest" entry for the Wiki,
> > containing advice on promotion methods (both on and off OCAL) would be
> > a good thing.
> > 
> > - Greg
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