OpenOffice.org Design Contest 124
lisah writes, "OpenOffice.org, along with co-sponsor WorldLabel.com, will give away more then $5,000 in cash and prizes to the winners of a template and clip-art design contest scheduled to run until October 13, 2006. Organizers are looking for original designs that are useful to multiple users but, in terms of creativity, they say the sky's the limit. Submissions can range from budgeting spreadsheets and personal finance templates to funky graphics and presentation templates, but must run on one of the suite's four main applications: Writer, Calc, Draw, or Impress."
Hmmm... (Score:5, Interesting)
There's an MS office template for most things, so the submissions will most likely either be:
a) a copy of something MS already has, or
b) obscure enough to be only of use to a very small group of people....
Re: (Score:2)
Nothing will stop people submitting them but peer review should weed them out once they have.
Re: (Score:1)
Re: (Score:1)
Re: (Score:1)
Re: (Score:2)
Re:Hmmm... (Score:4, Insightful)
Nothing, but these submissions are unlikely to be accepted, much less win the competition.
Re: (Score:2)
Now take a look at a Tufte book.
There is a difference.
Re: (Score:2)
As they'll be judging on orginality, I doubt anything remotly "MS Office" would be selected. Office templates stand out like a sore thumb.... a bit like a MS Powerpoint Presentation :)
Re: (Score:1, Interesting)
So much for the "open source" thing lol.
Re: (Score:2)
you mean, they offer incentives for the community around the project to actually make something?
How is this not open source?
Re: (Score:2)
Could be tricky. I used to work on a product that was licensed by Corel - we had clipart, and Corel replaced most of it with their (superior) collection. With respect to our original cliaprt set, we had received legal threats about one of the drawings that won our clipart competition, because the submitter had apparently copied the image from a poster/photograph. It was nicely done, but still a copy.
When we mentioned this to Corel, they told us that they got legal threats/lawsuits like that too, about
Link (Score:3, Informative)
Ascii Art? (Score:5, Funny)
If so, here is my submission:
O P E N
F
F
I
C
E
Catchy, aint it.
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Boo. That's ugly.
Here's my submission:
O F F I C E
P
E
N
That's much better.
Please mail the check to 100 Main St, Beverly Hills, CA 90210.
Thank you,
Randy.
Re: (Score:1)
Re: (Score:1)
Slashfilters (Score:3, Funny)
___ ___ _ _ _ ___
| . \| __>| \ || |/ __>
| _/| _> | || |\__ \
|_| |___>|_\_||_|<___/
Re: (Score:1)
I can just see it no (Score:3, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re: (Score:1)
Goatse man would be good for OpenOffice Draw. Puts a whole new spin on pulling a drawing out of somewhere...
Not just MSOffice... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re: (Score:1)
Copyright law prevents that. What gave you the idea that creative people who contribute with free (as in LGPL) content will need to copy anyone else's work? This is the same mentality behind the SCO lawsuit: "Your Honor, they can't possibly have done it themselves, so they must copied it from us".
Give the free culture movement some credit
Re: (Score:1)
Perhaps many people would less likely toil at creating some artwork that may/may not win the prize while there exists a higher likelihood of winning, by submitting a superior graphic especially since time is also a fa
OOo (Score:3, Insightful)
Re: (Score:1)
The startup times I can handle.
What they need to do is redesign the formatting tools, especially in setting colours. It seriously sucks. I shouldn't have to delve deep into the program options to apply a specific colour to a style (a colour selector or the like wouldn't go astray there either).
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
OpenOffice.org 2.0
Get with the times.Setting a font colour from OOo Writer [headru.sh]
Setting a style colour (F11, right click a style, click modify) [headru.sh]
And moreover... (Score:1)
more THAN (Score:3, Informative)
Re: (Score:1)
Re: (Score:1)
Re: (Score:1)
Re: (Score:3, Funny)
Re: (Score:1)
Re: (Score:1)
Re: (Score:2)
Clip art and Templates (Score:5, Insightful)
As a licensed Office user, you can pull down literally thousands (probably closer to 100,000) various types of clip art, stock photography, and templates. There's probably 20 different Invoice templates alone, all very good.
And with Office 2003, opening a template from the web or adding clip art is all integrated into the application.
Little things like this will help OO become more mainstream, but I think it still has a long way to go.
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
We are only going to add the top one or two items to the download. I don't want to have a 200Mb download, that has 1000 templates that are useless to me. Going to a site and downloading the ones I want makes more sense, or having a bulk template download as well.
Re: (Score:3, Insightful)
Ideally it could be linked into applications like OO through various HTTP APIs or something, much like Office is. (When you install office, you only install about 300 MB of clip art, the rest of it is accessed from the web.)
Clipart and templates? (Score:2, Informative)
Re: (Score:2)
Many of the people who write code, have no real need for a spreadsheet, so they have very little idea what features real users actually need unless those users tell them!
On those saying 'only MS copies will be submitted' (Score:1)
Too many nay sayers, who seem to think that everything has already been done. Still, at least the top post wasn't 'OMFG you asshats you fkking didn't proof-read the post OMFGFDFFFFJFKJFKJFJ!!!!!!1111111'
Wednesday! (for most)
please type the word in this image: stands verification text - if you are visually im
Re:On those saying 'only MS copies will be submitt (Score:2, Insightful)
Openoffice doesn't deserve cliparts (Score:4, Insightful)
SVG is the best standard for vectorial cliparts, and not supporting svg is really a shame. Bring real svg support to openoffice instead of the lame sun-java-only plugin, and then people will bring cliparts to openoffice.
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:1, Informative)
I like OO except it doesn't have X feeture .. ;) (Score:3, Informative)
Google on OO and feetures. Select random feeture. Post I like OO except it doesn't have 'X feeture' on Slashdot.
SVG-ready [ipd.uka.de] OpenOffice 2.0
was re Re:Openoffice doesn't deserve cliparts
For students (Score:1, Interesting)
Re: (Score:1)
-=Steve=-
clip art... (Score:3, Insightful)
I hope that they have some money saved back to do that soon.
Re: (Score:1)
Hey, look at the picture you linked again.
From my point of view, a set of 9 menues, each one with (an average of) 7 subitems of which (approximatly) 2 of them are submenues with (on average) more than 10 options (which some of them are submenues =oS) is not what I call something "functional".
Thats the primary reason why the *ribbon* exists.
The menu-bar paradigm is OLD older than me and older than lots of you. This has to be changed NOW.
Re: (Score:2)
I thought that the ribbon is having a hard time getting accepted.
The menu-bar paradigm is OLD older than me and older than lots of you.
ouch.
Just because it's old doesn't mean that there's anything overly wrong with it (if you think about it, most things in computing are "old" by your standards). A few apps might be pushing the paradigm to it's limits, but then you have to wonder if maybe it's the apps that need to be simplified and not the menubar.
why not rem
grey and cheap FUD ... (Score:2)
You know something, when I read the opening comment I said to myself, standby for a mass of OO doesn't have 'feeture' comments that strangely get modded up. And straight off at number four is the above
was Re:clip art...
Dear OpenOffice (Score:3, Interesting)
You have a long way to go. Clipart is the least of your problems: there is always images.google.com. I never really used MS Office much. I used Novel, and then Corel Office. When I moved to Linux I picked you up OO.org. You meet most of my tasks, and I have never had to open MS Word due to a a lack of yours. However, you are lacking a lot of useful features. Please copy features from Wordperfect. I would love a grammar checker as useful as the one in Wordperfect.
And I hear you don't have native SVG support? What's up with that?
Thank you.
Re: (Score:2)
Forget about svg support, I'd be happy to see correct formatting of text using font substitution and correct handling of combining diacritics. Yes, I've posted bugs. Yes, I'm bitter and twisted.
But also yes, I use OpenOffice daily. It's just better.
Re: (Score:2)
Wait until Gates hears about this... (Score:1)
Talking paper clips (Score:2, Funny)
Shark Art (Score:4, Funny)
Re: (Score:2)
Hey! There's mutherf****n clip-art in this mutherf****n office suite!
I like OO except for .. (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
I was being a little sacastic. My point being that whenever Open Source is mentioned we invariably get the I like X except it lacks feeture Y type of comments.
Paid content (Score:1, Flamebait)
Re: (Score:2)
1) There is a commercial version of Open Office: It's called Star Office
2) The best a commercial product can hope to do against MS is go out of business.
2a) Or be bought by google
3) Did I mention that Open Office was the Free Version of Star Office ($70 ish) from Sun?
3b) Did you know that you could purchase Open Office for $70 ish, and get features like: Real Fonts, a commercial spell checker, the ability to import MS Scripts, and more...
Seriously, how many commercial offic
Finally! (Score:2, Insightful)
Lack of Impress Templates (Score:1)
but what OO.o really needs is Galley View (Score:2)
It's an incredible waste of screen space (not to mention scrolling time) to display each and every page with its headers&footers, not to mention the blank background between pages. When you're writing and editing the content of a document, all you want or need to see is the text itself. Page formatting comes later.
Re: (Score:2)
Office 2003 has an additional feature in "Print Mode" where you can opt to just eliminate the extra space. So you see all the formatting and the bubble-style comments, but you don't see headers and footers where there are none. I'd settle for something similar.
Picking up on the smashing success of GIMP idea (Score:1)
http://www.gimp.org/contest/
If they really want a successful project . . . (Score:1)
A general and powerful solution (Score:2)
But what is a good UI ? Perfect for slashpol
Category
Graphs - genera
Graphs - axis
The math is a lot like the ask an audience feature in do u want 2b a millioniare.
if there is a consensus you will get a set of votes x + y, where x is the preferred soluiton and Y is the sum of the unpreferred, and all of the components of y are small (the math is really clear with 4 choices)
the only problem is if the better solutions are not well know
Re:Geeks don't do art. (Score:5, Interesting)
>You're either good technically or a good artist. Not both. That's the way it's always been.
One technology that I've actually seen bridging that gap, is Rails.
I thought Rails was just hype until I saw creative types, people who would normally hire programmers or whoever, taking ideas from start to finish on their own.
For all the things that were supposed to do exactly that (going as far back as COBOL), the first one I've seen actually *doing* it, was Rails. It's both exciting and a little scary to see people taking their ideas from concept to revenue stream (or whatever), without much fuss at all. (Yeah, I know, Rails is "opinionated", but its opinion is that you should be doing web-based apps targeted at modern browsers. It happens to have had quite good timing for a language with such opinons.)
Re: (Score:3, Funny)
Noooooo! Don't cross the streams!
Re: (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Geeks don't do art. (Score:4, Insightful)
Totally. Leonardo Da Vinci was a no talent hack of an artist and a pathetic technologist.
Re: (Score:1, Insightful)
Re: (Score:2)
Not many geeks do art (Score:2)
Leaving aside the debate over da Vinci, I think the idea that you can't be good both artistically and technically is daft. It's simply a numbers game: if 10% of the population is good at art, and 10% is good technically, then we would expect only 1% of the population to be good at both.
If we take those made up numbers and put them in context, that would mean around 1 in 5 people would have some talent at one or the other. However, only 1 in 20 of those talented people would be good at both. It's not that
Re:Geeks don't do art. (Score:4, Interesting)
Re: (Score:3, Insightful)
You hear a lot about the relationship between music and programming. You don't hear as much about the relationship between visual people and progr
Re: (Score:1)
Clippy design contest? (Score:3, Funny)
Re: (Score:1, Redundant)
I'd say this guy [wikipedia.org] would disagree with you. Just to name one.
Re: (Score:2, Insightful)
> I'd say this guy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci) would disagree with you. Just to name one.
Citing a single counterexample from centuries ago when OP claimed that such individuals are very rare proves OP's point, especially when your counterexample is one data point among six billion.
Re: (Score:2)
I have (like Charles Kavalovski, alas not quite at his level) some talent for playing the French Horn. I'm also fairly capable in math and science. The fact that a lot of people quickly jumped on Da Vinci is not a proof of anything except that he is widely known for having such of range of abilities.
Wrong. (Score:3, Insightful)
Wrong.
I'd even go so far and say you won't excel at either if your not good in the other. I'm a professional software developer and a multimedia designer with a diploma in arts. I'd say I'm quite good at both *and* I'm aware that both are hard work and I also know the difference between crappy programming and good programming and the difference between crappy design and good design.
The problem with being at home in bo
Re: (Score:3, Funny)
Re: (Score:1)
I don't do art? (Score:2)
Now, granted, my art stuff isn't quite as good as my little sister's stuff [antoninawhaples.com], but I think I'm working on it and getting better. (Sorry I don't have any scans of stuff from my current art class or anything - and if you go browsing the Scraps hard enough, you'll find some stuf
Re: (Score:2)
p.s. My sig points to one of my drawings on my deviantart page.
Re: (Score:2)
People have paid me to draw their portrait, others to write them bits of code... I'm also nearly ambidextrous.
Would you like to make a comment about how people are either good with their left hand, or their right hand. Not Both, and how that's always been?
Re: (Score:2)
Alexander Borodin [wikipedia.org] was a Russian composer and a very good chemist.
Charles Kavalovski [std.com] is a tenured professor of physics and the former principal horn of the BSO.
I've seen examples of naturalists who were very good at drawing wildlife and plants and also had deep knowledge of their subjects.
etc. etc. etc.
Re: (Score:1)
who?
"So what if it doesnt work, it sure looks puurdy"
Re: (Score:1)
Re: (Score:2)
Programmers are generally not artists.
Artists are generally not programmers.
Don't worry, the developers will keep working on OOo.
Meanwhile, why not give some artists some work they can do?
Sorry if I'm harsh, but I've seen that kind of argument a million times by now, and the reason it's flawed is so super simple to understand that it's downright scary how often it
Well... (Score:1)