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Re: Textpattern Template Competition
Less than a month left, let’s get going people :D
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#32 2006-02-10 22:31:55
- alexandra
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Re: Textpattern Template Competition
already nominated the judges, Thame? :)
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#34 2006-02-11 17:25:24
- Dawk
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Re: Textpattern Template Competition
dang, I just saw this :(
pretty sure I won’t have time to create anything worthy.
looking forward to seeing everyone elses though :)
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Awww, there’s always enough time. Go fot it man!
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#36 2006-02-13 21:45:45
- alexandra
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Mind me, i would not mind if you extend the deadline to some time in March. I love to contribute but am piled up with work.. We are not in a hurry, are we.. aren´t we.. i have the feeling it won´t do any harm to extend the deadline .. may be even end of march?
btw. thanks a lot for your nice comment on TXP Mag … :)
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alexandra wrote:
Mind me, i would not mind if you extend the deadline to some time in March. I love to contribute but am piled up with work.. We are not in a hurry, are we.. aren´t we.. i have the feeling it won´t do any harm to extend the deadline .. may be even end of march?
I have considered changing the deadline, but I will have to see how things are looking as we near Feb. 28th.
As of right now though, the deadline stands so get those templates in! :D
btw. thanks a lot for your nice comment on TXP Mag … :)
Sure thing
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#38 2006-02-28 02:52:56
- Evdawg
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Re: Textpattern Template Competition
Thame, I also think that the deadline should be extended by a few weeks.
The Typo theme contest had over a hundred entries, and we’ve only got 27 so far.
In the end though, it’s totally up to you. Make the descision that you feel is best :)
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Extending to the end of march would be quite useful, yes. In my opinion.
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I just came to the forum to say I wasn’t going to get mine done in time. If you extend it, I’m sure there are a lot of people that will submit entries.
Alex
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What about those that already submitted entries? While I had my one entry done in plenty of time I’m sure a majority of those working through this past weekend might be submitting things they felt rushed or otherwise may have liked to have the extra time too. Not to mention extending the deadline keeps both Thame and the judges on the hook for more time.
Besides, there’s no reason someone can’t make a theme without the competition (i’m sure some of those on a roll and sumbitting 5 or 6 won’t suddenly stop or run out of ideas overnight).
Let it close on time and look somewhat organized. Be it with 25 or 50 or 100 submissions. Then go and use it as a starting point for getting more themes out there as well as getting ideas for a real theme engine.
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Actually, yep that makes more sense. Can we hold another soon. In the mean time I’ll finish mine and upload it to textgarden as usual.
Alex
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First of all, there might be some sponsorship problems if I were to just keep bumping the deadline. The sponsor for the iPod said that they would need twenty submissions to be able to give the prize away. The only reason I would extend the deadline was if we didn’t make it past twenty.
It’s 12:03 right now so I the competition is over, and I think everyone will agree that it was a resounding success. There were 42 amazing submissions and I’m really happy with the result.
As for the other question, do you think making it an annual competition would be a good idea? I’ve learned alot from holding this contest so I’m sure I could hold an even better one next year.
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I’m just an interested observer (though I did think of trying…).
I have really enjoyed looking over the entries! I would not like to be in the position of judging. Everyone deserves a big…hmmm….
…cheese?
…taco?
Congratulations and thank you!
What a community!
M
I am not a professional woman
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thame wrote:
First of all, there might be some sponsorship problems if I were to just keep bumping the deadline.
Quite understable. I’ll just upload mine to Textgarden when it’s done…
It’s 12:03 right now so I the competition is over, and I think everyone will agree that it was a resounding success. There were 42 amazing submissions and I’m really happy with the result.
I fumbled again the timezones… I thought EST was several hours before midnight UTC not after. I might have finish it. Well, doesn’t matter :)
As for the other question, do you think making it an annual competition would be a good idea? I’ve learned alot from holding this contest so I’m sure I could hold an even better one next year.
I would suggest making another one for crockery, when it’s in RC (just before the final). We can hope for major improvements and features, and mostly a real default template that would expose the might of TXP. The next contest could be to style it, for example.
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