About Screen Contests
Carrying on the Tradition!
Current Contest
The contest for the much-awaited Inkscape 1.0 has just begun and we're looking forward to your submissions!
Grab the current Beta version or a daily build of the latest code directly from the development pipeline for your operating system. Show everyone what amazing things you and the new version of your favorite vector graphics editor are capable of creating!
To find out more about what's new, take a peek at the release notes draft for 1.0!
Timeline (all times in UTC/GMT)
| Submission | Mon., October 7, 2019 – Sun., November 17, 2019 |
| Community Voting | Mon., November 18, 2019 – Sun., December 1, 2019 |
| Final Voting | Mon., December 2, 2019 – Sun., December 15, 2019 |
| Winners announced | Tues., December 17, 2019 |
We hope to see a great variety of entries, with lots of cool ideas and neat tricks.
Visit the 1.0 About Screen Contest gallery to view the entries by all contestants and to submit your own!
How Does the Contest Work?
Rules
- The canvas dimensions must be 750x625 px / 600x500 pt. Your image can bleed outside of the canvas, but anything outside of the canvas border will not be rendered.
- Your image must be licensed appropiately: CC-BY-SA. Please include the license in the image's metadata. Note: Your SVG file will be distributed with the Inkscape program, hence the need for the above requested licensing.
- It must be made in Inkscape only with no post-processing as we will require the SVG file to use for the about screen.
- It must load relatively fast since it will be rendered in real-time when someone views the about screen (the SVG's file size needs to be taken into consideration, too).
- It must include the Inkscape logo (flat or 3D version at your discretion) and the following text "Inkscape", "1.0", "Draw Freely.", "www.inkscape.org", and last but not least, your name, signature, or online handle (whichever you'd prefer).
- Any third-party materials you use must be properly attributed and their author must have allowed its use under the required license (CC-By-SA).
- Any text in your image must use a font with an open source license (OFL, GPL, Apache, MIT, PD/CC-0, CC-By-SA, ... e.g. from the Font Library or Google Fonts, or Inkscape's brand fonts)
- Text must be converted to paths. It's a good idea to include the original text in a hidden layer, so later editing is easily possible.
- Images must not contain raster graphics (i.e. pixel-based (bitmap) images like bmp, jpg or png; exceptions may be made for patterns and masks).
- There can be a maximum of two (2) entries submitted per community member.
- It must not contain anything inappropriate or otherwise offensive. We recommend avoiding things such as nudity, violence, and political or religious imagery. Material considered inappropriate or offensive will be disqualified at the development team's sole and final discretion.
- We will need for you to post your SVG file online in the right contest gallery (see link above).
- Have fun!
Hint
If your image contains elements that work in Inkscape, but are not rendered correctly in browsers (old Inkscape-specific flowed text, mesh gradients, some blend modes and filters), you can export your SVG image as PNG, and upload that, in addition to your original SVG, with the "Choose visible image" button. This will make it show up as intended on the contest page, while still allowing to access the original SVG file.
Prize
Your art featured and credited as the About Screen for the 1.0 version of Inkscape!
Even if your entry does not win, it may still be used by the project for other occasions, like stickers to hand out at conferences, flyers, images for the website, tutorials, or even for in-between versions of the program when there's no official contest. Of course, each contest entry is going to stay visible in the website's gallery, as an example of what can be created using Inkscape.
Judging
Preliminary judging is done by the Inkscape community. The top 5 entries from the community vote will then be turned over to the Inkscape developers for final judging. Please note that once turned over to the developers, after they have chosen the winner, they may have requests for modifications.
All decisions are final once the voting periods are finished.
Relevant Links
Inkscape 1.0beta - Get a pre-release build!
Inkscape master - Get the latest builds directly from the development pipeline.
Inkscape repository - Download the the latest developer version and build from source.
Draft release notes - These are VERY helpful to learn about what new features available to you.
Entries from previous About Screen Contests:
Inkscape Branding Resources (Logos, Fonts,...)
List of developers who contributed to 1.0 (Jan. 2006 to Sept. 2019) - Some people like to use this as an element of their artwork.
Bug tracker - Please report any bugs that you find. We want to fix as many as possible before the release!
Previous Winners
This gallery contains the winning pictures from previous contests, as well as some About Screens from our ancestor project Sodipodi. They are a piece of history, as well as inspiration for future contests.
