UPDATE ___________________________________________ WFS India in collaboration with Glug-Cal, Fedora and Mozilla announces a poster competition on women's, LGBT and gender-related issues in India using free software tools as part of the extended Cultural Freedom Day celebrations. You stand to win exciting prizes by your participation.
Background We hear a number of reports in the media about crimes against women and minorities on a daily basis. We cannot really remain silent about these because they stand to affect our lives and safety. The cause of such a situation can be related to illiteracy of large sections of the populations, absence of sex education in any form in the education system, a patriarchal system that curtails the rights of women and minorities, inadequate and poorly trained law enforcement forces and inadequate laws. Activists will say that the problem of dealing with the decadent patriarchy is hard because it has merged itself with cultural, religious and business practices at the cost of basic human values. More recently, even the minimalist recommendations of the Verma commission have not been fully accepted by the Government resulting in the laws remaining sub-human in nature. It is no wonder that the human rights abuses of women and LGBT people is the norm. If you reflect on the issues involved, then you will realize that the progress of the entire society is affected as a consequence. This poster competition is for highlighting various facets of the problem and possible egalitarian solutions. Who Can Participate? Anybody can participate*. Those with no previous experience with poster-making/digital art can start with Tux-Paint. * We will not be able to send prizes to regions falling outside the country, but anyway do participate. What Are We Expecting? We expect great posters that has one or more of the following attributes: Conveys a positive message with educational value on feminist issues. Highlights social evils. Demands reforms in a powerful way. Rectifies common misconceptions about gender and sex. Conveys deeper aspects of the development of social evils. Says something on the participation of women in the free software movement. How To Participate? Read this announcement. Prepare your posters as per the guidelines below. Submit you posters along with form at this submission link. Submission: Click Here for Submitting Your Entry Competition Rules and Guidelines: A registered participant can submit any number of entries. All entries must be done using free software tools like GIMP, TeXLive, ImageMagick, TuX Paint, Inkscape, ScanTailor, Scribus, Synfig Studio, Asymptote, Libre Office and Open Office Draw. These tools are available for ALL operating systems including Ubuntu, Fedora, other GNU/Linux distributions, PC-BSD, M$-Windows. We prefer submissions in xcf, .eps or other good image formats. All entries must include an outline of the main steps involved and some proof of the use of tools. A description (in less than 200 words) of the intended message of the art work should also be included. Entries will be licensed under Creative Commons Share Alike -3.0 (with Attrition). Photos and other art works used in the poster should be suitably acknowledged. Entries should be no smaller than A4 size and no larger than A2 size. No plagiarism. Submitted posters should not be copies of other people's work and should involve substantial creativity of the artists. Only entries that pass minimal sanity check will be displayed in our e-gallery. Decision of the judges will be final and binding. Important Dates: Submission Begins: 1st June'2013 Last Date of Submission: 14th June'2013 Announcement of Results: 15th June'2013 Gallery Update: By 24th June'2013 Panel of Judges: A. Mani María "tatica" Leandro Shweta Srivatsava Sourav Sen Gupta Competition Coordination: A. Mani Prizes: Flash drives with Fedora and /or Books for top three entries. 2 consolation prizes. Certificates of Merit. ________________________________ In case of any difficulty, please contact A. Mani or post your query in our mailing list or google group or talk to us on IRC #wfs-india at freenode. ________________________________ Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, AMS, CLC, CMS http://www.logicamani.in _______________________________________________ WFS-India mailing list [email protected] Message archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe, please login to your account at http://www.wfs-india.org/ and unsubscribe to the WFS-India list from your account settings. -- WFS-India - http://www.wfs-india.org
