Hi everyone,

I’m sure that you all have been looking forward to the start of the contest, so let’s take a look at the entries. There were a wide variety of designs submitted, and in many sizes and formats. I have tried to present them here in their original format and original size, but sometimes that was not possible due to website requirements. Some larger images have been distorted (squeezed) horizontally due to the website image size limits. You might be able to see them in their original form by following the original links in the previous post. Also, it’s the artwork and concept that count, please don’t worry about whether the images are “too big” or “too small”, I didn’t try to scale them all to the same “pleasing” size.

With that in mind, let’s review the entries:

On January 19, 2011 at 7:45 am
Andrés sent in these three images:

On January 23, 2011 at 12:39 pm
Andrés sent in one additional image:

[ This image I did crop to remove the desktop clutter, but I moved (kept) the small icon near the ruler. ]

On January 19, 2011 at 11:57 am
Scott H sent in some good info about .svg files and icon sizes. Thanks, Scott.

On January 20, 2011 at 7:16 pm
Martin Owens sent in one entry:

On January 22, 2011 at 3:52 am
Alex King sent in one entry (the first of several):

On January 22, 2011 at 10:21 am
two more Alex King entries were sent by Scott H:

On January 22, 2011 at 9:17 am
Alex King sent in three more entries:

[This next entry was submitted as a 64×64 svg, but for some reason it appeared to be 3.0MB, so it had to be converted to a png.]

On January 22, 2011 at 7:32 pm
Pedro sent in this entry:

On January 22, 2011 at 9:10 pm
Redicon sent in these two entries:

[Redicon’s next entry was a 7-zip file that contained many images and icons, but too many to post here, so this one was selected.]

On January 23, 2011 at 11:03 am
Helder Serpa sent in this entry:

On January 24, 2011 at 8:12 am
Helder Serpa sent in these entries:

On January 24, 2011 at 3:02 am
Daltom Designer sent this entry:

On January 25, 2011 at 12:07 pm
nitrofurano sent this entry:

On January 26, 2011 at 5:41 am
Rallaz sent the first of two entries:

On January 31, 2011 at 8:06 am
Rallaz sent the second of two entries:

On January 27, 2011 at 8:07 pm
to b sent four entries (later repeated, but the same info):

On January 30, 2011 at 8:05 am
Alex King updated his earlier entries:

[The last two were submitted as svg but had to be converted to png here for display ]

On January 31, 2011 at 4:52 am
fraktaldesign re-submitted his designs on a different server:

On February 4, 2011 at 3:36 pm
A Laforest sent in this design:

And that concludes the entries!

Thank you all very much for your hard work.

So now, place your votes! Comments are welcome too. (Helpful comments anyway, be nice!)

Voting will continue through (what, April 6?)

All the designs submitted were very good. And once again, thank you all very much for your hard work.

KimK

Hey All,

it’s been a couple of weeks again since my last post. I have been squashing a couple of small bugs but today we got a request on what’s the status is on LibreCAD and if they can get it in the archives for 11.04. I think this is good news!

My ownly objection would be that we don’t have the following graphics:

1. Small icon log:  To be used in menu entries
2. Splash screen graphics: Shown when program starts
3. Program icon: To be used as desktop icons, icon in OSX and program icon.

Since we can have a big graphic on the splash screen I though it would be nice to show a drawing there from a open source hardware projects that was designed in LibreCAD. We could even ‘rotate’ this splash screen image with each new mayor or minor release of LibreCAD?

So, if you are graphically skilled please post to this thread 3 links to your designs. When we have a couple of nice designs I will setup a poll so we can decide what graphic to use. We could also have multiple winnars, if you like the logo of person A but the splash of Person B. We can do this aswell. The winners names will also be listed in the about dialog of LibreCAD.

Good Luck!

Ries van Twisk

Contest will be run until Monday 12AM 31th of Jan 2011. After that I will post all submitted images in new blogpost with a poll for the community to select there favorites.

Hello!

Seems like we have a clear winner, 1:7 CADuntu vs LibreCAD and LibreCAD won with 140 votes against CADuntu that had only 20 votes. So, goodbye CADuntu and welcome LibreCAD

I like the name! Nitro came up with the name first here, the domain LibreCAD.org was free and the name is what it is. Libre (as in free) and CAD as in Computer Aided Design. A very proper name for this project. I contacted SourceForge and asked them the process to change the Project name as this is currently not automated, and if everything is fine you should get redirected already to the new domain from the old caduntu.org domain.

Something more:

Scott has been VERY helpfull setting up a PPA for this project so that the Ubuntu folk can easily install LibreCAD on there systems.

For Ubuntu 10.04 use:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:showard314/librecad
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install librecad

for Ubuntu 10.10 and Natty use:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:showard314/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install librecad

So, now I am going to setup my server to serve LibreCAD and make sure DNS records are changed!

Ries