GNOME’s 10 year aniversary happened last week and we are celebrating for a month to mark such an auspicious milestone.  The cookbook is going at a good pace.  We didn’t expect to be done before the anniversary as we didn’t want it to be a rush job.  Recipes are coming in at a steady pace however we are lacking in one area.  We need designers to produce a cover and a coherent design for the recipes.

To up the incentive even more I am implementing a Cookbook Design contest.  The winners will get a copy of the book payed for by myself.  I’ll even have it shipped to my place, signed and reshipped to the winners if they would like.  Who knows, that signature could be worth something someday (when you happen on one of my blank checks and are able to forge it).

There will be a winner for the cover design and two winners for the interior design.  Bonus point go to those who produce designs that we can be changed around depending on layout and section.  For instance having simple colors allows us to change the color for different sections and having variations on the layout allow us to make the book more interesting.

To enter please add your design to the wiki.  Designs should be at 300dpi lossless for bitmaps or be vector based, preferably in an open format.  The size of the book has yet to be determined so designs may need to be altered in the end.  Designs can also take into account what size and orientation the designer thinks the book should be in.  Go to Lulu.com to see the options available to us.  Winners must stick around to help us tweak the design for the finished product.  The contest will be over September 2nd.  If we don’t have enough entries by then I think I will cry.  Happy designing!!!

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