With respect to the organizers of this contest, to Fusebox, and to you Sandra...this is a poor idea.
This is basically asking people to work for free, with only a chance of the possibility of winning the contest. It's called Spec Work and it's a bad practice. Would any of the programmers on this list write CODE for free were this contest geared towards that? I'm not saying that a contest in and of itself is bad, but asking people to do work for free IS bad and it's unprofessional. Even straight up asking people to do pro bono work would be better than your current method. I'm just asking you to consider the message that this is sending the web professionals on this list. Andy Matthews Senior Coldfusion Developer Office: 877.707.5467 x747 Direct: 615.627.9747 Fax: 615.467.6249 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dealerskins.com -----Original Message----- From: Sandra Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 12:53 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: SOT: Fusebox Web Site Design Contest Announced Fusebox is going to get a facelift and we need your help. Things are really starting to happen within Team Fusebox and one of the main goals is to start off fresh with a new and improved website. New content, new everything. Including a new look. Since for the most part, we are programmers and not designers, we need your help. So we are announcing the first ever Fusebox Website design contest. * Site submittals will close on March 8, 2007, 5pm EST. Submittals after this time will not be accepted. * A winner will be announced on March 29, 2007. Interested? head over to http://trac.fuseboxframework.org/fusebox/wiki/WebSiteDesignRequirements for the complete set of rules, design requirements and submittal information. What do you get out of it? You mean besides the warm fuzzy feeling that comes from contributing to the community? Isn't that enough? No? Well then how about: * 2 Free passes to CFOBjective , held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 3 - 6, 2007 (courtesy of Jared Rypka-Hauer) * 1 Free pass to CFUNITED, held in Bethesda, Maryland, June 27 - 30, 2007 (courtesy of Michael Smith of Teratech) * "Site designed by:" with corresponding link on the footer of the home page Feel free to blog this or put this on other sites. The more response we get to this, the better the site will be. Sandra Clark ============================== http://www.shayna.com Training in Cascading Style Sheets and Accessibility ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:269329 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
