Hello. I'm happy to see that background is open to some debate; Here are my humble toughs.
2013/6/6 A. Mani <[email protected]> > 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. > It would be better not to start with the bad, but start with the good, we are trying to encourage, not courage; people. so, here are my toughs. "Women around the world have an opinion that want to be heard; from IT sysadmins to housewives, female society has the gift of creativity, and our contest wants to open a door through where women, from India and other regions; can speak their minds." Probably adding more a focus into that they will be using FLOSS could be nice. > > 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. > > Talking about what causes social issues has to be what they show into their artwork; problems exist all around the world, however, an abstract cannot show opinions such as "activists says..." since we are not trying to make a point, we are letting the door open so women speak their opinions WITH artwork. > 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. > > Again, we are not attacking, we are letting them do it with their art. > This poster competition is for highlighting various facets of the > problem and possible egalitarian solutions. > > > A poster is not gonna solve any problem, posters are to create awareness and conscience about the problem; the main goal HAS to be to select an awesome poster that encourage women to keep on; not to start a riot. > > Who Can Participate? > > Anybody can participate*. > > Those with no previous experience with poster-making/digital art can > start with Tux-Paint. > Awesome > > * We will not be able to send prizes to regions falling outside the > country, but anyway do participate. > Probably this could be discussed. > > 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. > Highligh social evils? really? I would rather "highlight women power" Demands reforms in a powerful way. > Again, is not about start a riot > Rectifies common misconceptions about gender and sex. > Could be rephrased into something more "Encourage rights equality" > Conveys deeper aspects of the development of social evils. > Again, should be about showing the good > 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. > > ________________________________ > > > > The rest looks ok to me > > > > 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 > -- tatica Maria Gracia Leandro http://www.tatica.org http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:tatica LinuxUser= 440285 GPG Public Key: E1CDCC56
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