[WFS-India] Updated: poster competition article

[A. Mani]

UPDATE
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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.



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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.

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A. Mani


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