Hi, I've published the banners at www.ubuntu.com/community/countdown Add them to your website and tell your friends. Unlike previous times, there is no Javascript. It's purely an <img /> tag so it should be compatible with any system.
Thanks to everyone who contributed! On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Matthew Nuzum <[email protected]>wrote: > Announcing the chosen banners: > > First, it was a very tough decision. The entries this time around were > fabulous! It took us a whole extra day to decide which ones to use because > there were so many great choices. But, we have to choose and so we did. > > Our first choice was Martín Césare's "logo as a progress bar" shown at > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website/MaverickCountdownBanner#Mart%C3%ADn%20C%C3%A9sare%27s%20Mockups(he > has made some minor adjustments to this so the final version does look a > bit different) > > Great job Martin! > > Our second choice was Thorwil's "circles" shown at > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website/MaverickCountdownBanner#Circles We loved > the way it progresses inwards, it really builds excitement. > > Our third choice was a split decision, we couldn't pick only one, so we > chose: > > Alejandro Rojas' > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website/MaverickCountdownBanner#Alejandro%20Rojas%27%20Design > and > Koichi Akabe's > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website/MaverickCountdownBanner#Koichi%20Akabe%27s%20Design > > Congratulations to all of the winners! > > I've received almost all of the final artwork and will be working to > publish it this week. Expect one more e-mail from me once these get to their > final resting place. > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Matthew Nuzum < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> OK, the time to enter designs has come to an end. >> >> You have done outstanding work! Choosing will be tough, but >> fortunately, it's not my job to make the final decision. :-) >> >> I've had a meeting with the decision makers and they're going to >> discuss the entries and decide tomorrow. At that point I'll >> communicate privately with the authors to ensure that we'll able to >> get a full set of images. Once I've succeeded I'll announce the >> outcome here on the list. >> >> Beta release is this Thursday but due to a longer than usual beta >> period we will not be releasing the countdowns for another week. I >> think it puts less burden on you artists to aim for about 30 days. >> >> -- >> Matthew Nuzum >> newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin, identi.ca and twitter >> >> "Never stop learning" –Robert Nuzum (My dad) >> > > > > -- > Matthew Nuzum > newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin, identi.ca and twitter > > "Never stop learning" –Robert Nuzum (My dad) > -- Matthew Nuzum newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin, identi.ca and twitter "Lead, follow or get the hell out of the way." –Robert Nuzum (My dad) summarizing an old military quote
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