I understand that...but THOSE contests are bad practices as well. If you WANT to work for free then by all means you should do so. If you believe in supporting the Fusebox group and their excellent codebase then you should ALSO do so. But putting out a contest, asking people to work for free is a bad idea, and not something that the community should support.
Here's a list of articles discussing spec work and it's effects on the design community. Bear in mind that this ALSO affects the programming community. It basically devalues your work product. If you're willing to work "for free" this time, then why should you be charging me $65 per hour the next time. http://www.no-spec.com/archives/i-wish-i-had-written-this/ http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0104h.shtml http://www.no-spec.com/articles/design-contests/ http://designforum.aiga.org/content.cfm?ContentAlias=_getfullarticle&aid=115 5318 http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm?CategoryID=105 -----Original Message----- From: So Kenfused [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 1:43 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Fusebox Web Site Design Contest Announced I disagree. If someone wants to help, show the world what they can do, or whatever their reasoning why not? It's no different than a photo contest, art contest or the contest Ray Camden runs occasionally for showing off what you can do with your programing skills. It's a contest with prizes for the winner. If you have enough time and are so inclined power to you. Andy Matthews wrote: > 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. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:269334 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
