GUI olympics?
Wednesday, January 29, 2003 by --Gabriel | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Will there ever be another GUi olympics?
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Hell Dragon
Reply #22 Friday, January 31, 2003 3:17 PM
Reply #22 Friday, January 31, 2003 3:17 PM
Yeah… I would like to see another GUI Olympics too; maybe with more categories this time.
Since deviantART has grown so big maybe they could host it? and the prizes could be 'sponsored by xxxxxx'. I think that would be more palatable for those with objections.
You could have Nullsoft sponsoring a Winamp category (2.x skins, WA3 skins etc), Axialis & Stardock sponsoring Icon Design (24bit, XP icons, Object dock etc...), and then Stardock also sponsoring WindowBlinds, DesktopX or Logon Screens.
The whole event could be handled and launched from deviantART (with other sites helping out behind the scenes) and the various sponsors would provide the prizes and rewards for the various categories.
Judges could be chosen from the best artists and skinners in that category and would have no affliction with the sponsor. However the sponsor would have the final word on the prize allocation as a last resort.
This way all sites could take part; including wincustomize. And nowadays we have a lot of sites out there… it could be something very big, and entertaining... a bit of healthy completion. Think about all the sites we could choose to represent; Neowin, Designtechnika, Wincustomize, ArtUproar, deviantART, deskmod, VelocityART, ThemeXP.org, customize.org, virtualplastic, betanews, AroSkins, GetSkinned, skinbase, skinz.org and WMPlugins.
Just an idea...
Since deviantART has grown so big maybe they could host it? and the prizes could be 'sponsored by xxxxxx'. I think that would be more palatable for those with objections.
You could have Nullsoft sponsoring a Winamp category (2.x skins, WA3 skins etc), Axialis & Stardock sponsoring Icon Design (24bit, XP icons, Object dock etc...), and then Stardock also sponsoring WindowBlinds, DesktopX or Logon Screens.
The whole event could be handled and launched from deviantART (with other sites helping out behind the scenes) and the various sponsors would provide the prizes and rewards for the various categories.
Judges could be chosen from the best artists and skinners in that category and would have no affliction with the sponsor. However the sponsor would have the final word on the prize allocation as a last resort.
This way all sites could take part; including wincustomize. And nowadays we have a lot of sites out there… it could be something very big, and entertaining... a bit of healthy completion. Think about all the sites we could choose to represent; Neowin, Designtechnika, Wincustomize, ArtUproar, deviantART, deskmod, VelocityART, ThemeXP.org, customize.org, virtualplastic, betanews, AroSkins, GetSkinned, skinbase, skinz.org and WMPlugins.
Just an idea...
IPlural
Reply #23 Friday, January 31, 2003 3:18 PM
Reply #23 Friday, January 31, 2003 3:18 PM
WOW
*shakes head, and holds everything that comes to mind from passing through fingers to keyboard*
again...
WOW
*shakes head, and holds everything that comes to mind from passing through fingers to keyboard*
again...
WOW
Frogboy
Reply #25 Friday, January 31, 2003 4:52 PM
Reply #25 Friday, January 31, 2003 4:52 PM
The consolidation of things from a year ago has changed the situation quite a bit.
All of the skin sites are more popular than they were a year ago but they have increased in popularity at different rates.
From January Alexa: (relative traffic)
http://draginol.stardock.com/images/traffic-jan03.jpg
So before the contest, as long as WinCustomize, DA, and Deskmod and Neowin agree on a very fixed set of rules, any other sites that wanted to be part of it would have to agree before hand to those rules.
I'd say no user voting on skins. You'd have 5 judges who would be decided before the contest and they'd vote. The judges would not belong to any website but instead would be chosen based on credentials. I.e. if you had a Winamp cost it would be someone from Nullsoft on the panel. That sort of thing.
All of the skin sites are more popular than they were a year ago but they have increased in popularity at different rates.
From January Alexa: (relative traffic)
http://draginol.stardock.com/images/traffic-jan03.jpg
So before the contest, as long as WinCustomize, DA, and Deskmod and Neowin agree on a very fixed set of rules, any other sites that wanted to be part of it would have to agree before hand to those rules.
I'd say no user voting on skins. You'd have 5 judges who would be decided before the contest and they'd vote. The judges would not belong to any website but instead would be chosen based on credentials. I.e. if you had a Winamp cost it would be someone from Nullsoft on the panel. That sort of thing.
Jafo
Reply #26 Friday, January 31, 2003 6:55 PM
Reply #26 Friday, January 31, 2003 6:55 PM
Sometimes, with the relative recent growth of skinning, we forget there are many now who would be unaware of what transpired in even recent skinning history.
I provided the precis, Frogboy provided the Tome...
I provided the precis, Frogboy provided the Tome...
WOM
Reply #27 Friday, January 31, 2003 7:00 PM
Reply #27 Friday, January 31, 2003 7:00 PM
It never fails, Jafo makes me go to the dictionary at least 3 times a week. TOME
Weaksid
Reply #28 Saturday, February 1, 2003 12:03 AM
Reply #28 Saturday, February 1, 2003 12:03 AM
Must do that thing where you open a book, take your finger and point to a word. See if it's a new word you didn't know then study it all day. Therfore it would be stuck in your head. 
craeonics
Reply #29 Saturday, February 1, 2003 9:47 AM
Reply #29 Saturday, February 1, 2003 9:47 AM
One side of the medal anyway.
The other side (without pointing fingers, like some do (whoops... Bad finger! Bad!)) would be either that the rules changed in the middle of the contest or that people weren't happy with the current rules (or both), some people got upset about that it and things got messy. "Oh, it's fixed" they said. Some peeps wrote some sort of public statement requesting a rule change, which caused even more rucus and straight into the abyss they went.
Trouble with skinning is that skinning in nature is basically egoistical. So when you hold a contest between sites, and realising that there is already bad blood between some, you barely have time to get a chair and food before the fire spectacle starts.
The other side (without pointing fingers, like some do (whoops... Bad finger! Bad!)) would be either that the rules changed in the middle of the contest or that people weren't happy with the current rules (or both), some people got upset about that it and things got messy. "Oh, it's fixed" they said. Some peeps wrote some sort of public statement requesting a rule change, which caused even more rucus and straight into the abyss they went.
Trouble with skinning is that skinning in nature is basically egoistical. So when you hold a contest between sites, and realising that there is already bad blood between some, you barely have time to get a chair and food before the fire spectacle starts.
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Reply #21 Friday, January 31, 2003 2:42 PM