You've never won a contest, have you? The mere fact you posted here would lead one to believe you frequent these lists to elicit or supply help to others. The fact that you do this devalues any help you may seek, or others offer, elsewhere, and I think you should stop it.
I think this contest, and Ray's contestes, are a great idea.. As a winner of one of Ray's contests, I can tell you, the prizes, exposure and most importantly, knowledge, gained far outweighed the time spent on the contest. Hell, if I had any design skills, I;d be tempted to enter this one. Get over it dude, no one is so good they cannot do Pro Bono work from time to time, especially when its for a community supported project. On 2/9/07, Andy Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > -- Scott Stroz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:269339 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
