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GUI Olympics

By adni18
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I´ll be judging and therefore not skinning. But participating none-the-less :)
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Me trying real hard too.......
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I&acute;m not interested in politics at all. I can&acute;t look at peaople asking me a question and reply with an answer that has nothing to do with the question ;) <BR> <BR>Back on topic though, I have it on good authority that Aleksyandr is representing Skinbase too :) <BR> <BR>/me hopes he doesn&acute;t kill me for letting that slip :|
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me just woke-up, please excuse my typo&acute;s above lol
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scarebear..... you never read the rules? Don&acute;t ever get involed on politics lol
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There you go. This is why I never read the rules ;) That certainly is a weird rule. <BR> <BR>But as you are aware of it early on, you have the ability to update and edit yours too if you feel the need. <BR> <BR>Still, that&acute;s a weird rule :sb
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About us <BR>Contents <BR> <BR>Mission Statement <BR> <BR>Details <BR> <BR>Website Representation <BR> <BR>Prizes <BR> <BR>Getting Setup <BR> <BR>The Rules <BR> <BR> Website Representation <BR>When a user submits their WindowBlinds skin, they must first select the website they are going to represent. Skin authors are to athletes what Websites are to Nations. A user may not represent themselves since money won by an author is matched by money given to the website they represent (in this way, users can help support the websites that help the cause of GUI customization). If a website you want to represent is not listed, you can add them by clicking here. As long as you do not have a financial stake in that site you may represent them (i.e. you can be an administrator or wizop of the site you represent but you may not actually be the one who would receive both the skin author prize and the website prize). <BR> <BR>&quot;&quot;You may update your skin as many times as you would like during the contest and submit as many skins as you would like. There is also no limitation on how many people represent a given website. However, you may not represent either Stardock or WinCustomize since they are involved in running the contest. <BR> <BR>Link to the above rule http://www.guiolympics.com/about.asp <BR>
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I&acute;m not sure I&acute;ve read that anywhere either. Where did that come from?
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skins can be updated and changed as many times as one wants to.............. <BR> <BR>What are you talking about?
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Management or technician? <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR>A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a woman below. He descended a bit more and shouted, &quot;Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don&acute;t know where I am.&quot; <BR> <BR> <BR>The woman below replied, &quot;You are in a hot air balloon hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground. You are between 40 and 41 degrees north latitude and between 59 and 60 degrees west longitude.&quot; <BR> <BR> <BR>&quot;You must be an engineer,&quot; said the balloonist. &quot;I am,&quot; replied the woman,&quot;How did you know?&quot; <BR> <BR> <BR>&quot;Well,&quot; answered the balloonist, &quot;everything you told me is, technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I am still lost. Frankly, you&acute;ve not been much help so far.&quot; <BR> <BR> <BR>The woman below responded, &quot;You must be in Management.&quot; <BR> <BR> <BR>&quot;I am,&quot; replied the balloonist, &quot;but how did you know?&quot; <BR> <BR> <BR>&quot;Well,&quot; said the woman, &quot;you don&acute;t know where you are, or where you are going. You have risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise which you have no idea how to keep, and you expect people beneath you to solve your problems. The fact is you are in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but now, somehow, it&acute;s my fault.&quot; <BR> <BR>Just a little humor that I came across, seems to fit lol lol <BR>
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I agree with you chickGirl, if someone drops something better than what 1 hungry individual submitted, than what&acute;s stopping that person from ripping the ideas of everyone else and adding them to their own blindz? <BR> <BR>That just means that someones gonna develop a super skin at the last minute and it will be a combination of all the plugins and gadgets created by all skinners/programmers in the olympics...lol...what how unOriginal the skins start to look by judging time....
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hmmmmmmm frankly I have never heard of a contest that the skins can be updated and changed as many times as one wants too...... Once a skin has been submitted should be final, not changed and updated 10x over....... it&acute;s suppose to be a contest? I think me has walked away, I&acute;m sorry :-(
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crae, that&acute;s Donna&acute;s long lost sister! <BR>:snow
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Siva? Who&acute;s that?
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As I see here, we are expecting only 4-6 participations, am I right?
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<BR>So, it was you Siva...hmmm :) <BR> <BR> <BR>I am sure that it&acute;s going to have a great interesting, Frogboy ;)
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Chicky - yes you can use them after they have been sent to the GUIOlympics site. They should be available to view and download (by anybody) from February 1. <BR> <BR>Last I saw LOS had 2 skins. Leading the way! <BR> <BR>Thanks to Koasati and Sylva too. Great to see that sort of spirit from people active on other skin sites. <BR> <BR>/me goes to see if I am allowed to make a skin for LOS ;)
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Yea, that is cool. We didn&acute;t expect any submission this soon because of the time involved. I think all of the sites will do terrific.
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Will try! but no promises. I can do graphics but the putting together is harder and not really sure!
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If I manage to find out how the hell Skinstudio works, I&acute;ll swing in an entry too! <BR>:snow
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Looks like quite a bit has changed since last time I looked at WB, but I&acute;m checking it out and will definately give it a bash.
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No time... besides, I can&acute;t stand losing, so I&acute;d have to crank out a perfect skin.
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Sylva and I are working on one for SB........ :)
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craeonics...... all the time you put on this MB and other MB&acute;s split that time in half and crank out a skin :-) If I can try you can too? Come on show skinbase your support :-)
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When the WB skins are in the Olympics, will we get to use them?
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no Chickie........they are being shipped off to Saturn for a NASA experiment..... ;)
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I see one participation all ready for SkinBase...
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hehehe.............. I thought they were going to uranus?
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<BR>Oh Donna - that was terrible! <BR> <BR>... so you got any more? <BR>{:p <BR> <BR>P.S. REALLY looking forward to what you and the K-man come up with. <BR>:)
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me...
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<BR>Thanks frogboy for the explaination :) <BR>
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Ok, thats all fine and dandy.. but do we have a skinbase suite in the works yet? <BR> <BR>If not... I will have some free time in couple of weeks, but.. I will &acute;only&acute; work on a complete suite for skinbase. Anyone interested? <BR> <BR>My idea for the skinbase Suite: <BR> <BR>The suite graphics will symbolise the place of learning that skinbase is. The suite has to be &acute;educational and easy to customize for the newbies. The skins would have to be stylish and uncluttered for the ease of use with large &acute;easy to hit&acute; buttons. The colors would have to be &acute;cheerful&acute; cause we all have so much fun here.. right? <BR> <BR>But.. there is no skinbase logo.. damn. <BR> <BR>Anyhow, I have been away for a bit.. so whats news and is anyone interested in this idea? <BR>
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I really didn&acute;t get your message Jerry :) <BR>What do you mean by &quot;skinbase Suite&quot; ? <BR> <BR>me_ no_understand ;)
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sovy.... <BR>Suite of skins simply means a collection of skins using the same GFX, usually including a shell App and a few other application accompanied skins. This way, you get a lot of people to collaborate on the project and learn ...and the quality of work is usually high. <BR> <BR>I think BruB has already mentioned that he is interested in coordinating such effort if we would participate.
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The way it works is: <BR> <BR>Some of us submit a bunch of graphics we consider to be featured as a theme for &acute;skinbase skin suite&acute; . After we agree on which we should work on.. we can choose our applications of choice and get to skinning untill we have one great collection of &acute;skinbase&acute; skins to submit to the Olympiad... But above all.. it&acute;s a lot of fun and you feel like you are doing something good for the promotion of the site.
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I think it&acute;s a great idea, Jerry. <BR>But I think we need a bonafide Skinbase.org Logo. <BR>Maybe a contest for it? <BR>Of course, it being gRAVE&acute;s site he&acute;d have the last word. <BR>But one definite &quot;Logo&quot; would sure be nice.
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Who are you that is so wise in the ways of science?
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Jerry, I don&acute;t understand what you mean by, &quot;one great collection of “skinbase“ skins to submit to the Olympiad..&quot; .......the contest is for WindowBlinds only isn&acute;t it? <BR> <BR>/me wanders off mumbiling some about coconuts, and wooden rabbits............
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OK, lemme get this right.. the contest is &acute;just&acute; for WB? <BR> <BR>How come it is called an Olympiad then? <BR> <BR>Sorry.. still haven&acute;t had time to read up on it, I just assumed.. well silly me if that is so. 8)
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but that is not important right now.. lol <BR> <BR>We need a skinbase Suite.. and the logo is a good place to start creating interest! Damn, does that also mean my new LS theme will &acute;not&acute; be elidgable even tho it contains a WB skin? <BR>:p
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Build a bridge out of &acute;em.......... ;)
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LOL <BR> <BR>/me goes looking for a duck...
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<BR>Darnit, Jason, I ain&acute;t kidding! <BR>You just get me a large set of weight scales and a duck, and I&acute;ll prove it to you! <BR> <BR>{:p
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&quot;Luke, I am your father&quot; <BR>&quot;No, you&acute;re not my father!&quot;
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Keep on earning that hat buddy ;)
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See? <BR>Frogboy IS evil! <BR>And he&acute;s a witch! <BR>He turned me into a newt! <BR> <BR> <BR>what? <BR>well - I got better... <BR> <BR>{:p
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When you submit a skin it&acute;s eligible for all categories. You don&acute;t have to upload for specific categories. In theory, one skin could win all 15 events.
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To make it more clear, <BR> <BR>a skin can be &quot;cheerful&quot;,&quot;fast&quot;, with &quot;Best use of colors&quot;, &quot;OS-like&quot;, &quot;useable&quot; and &quot;original&quot;...... <BR>so in which category this skin must be uploaded??? <BR> <BR>Do you have any idea? <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR>The categories are: <BR> <BR>Most cheerful skin <BR>Most depressing skin <BR>Fastest Skin <BR>Strangest Skin <BR>Best use of sound effects <BR>Best use of colors <BR>Best Power User skin (what this means?) <BR>Best OS-like skin <BR>Most useable skin <BR>Best use of plugins <BR>Best animated skin <BR>Best Colorable skin <BR>Most website skin <BR>Most original skin <BR>Best overall skin (Is this a category?) <BR> <BR> <BR>
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I&acute;m not sure about that either. Hopefully you can just submit the skin and it&acute;s automatically in each category? I have read that theoretically you can win more than once with the same skin. So you must be able to be in more than one section obviously. <BR> <BR>But now Frogboy has an icon here his true identity is revealed ;) He&acute;s Luke&acute;s father!!!! :D
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<BR>Frogboy, it looks fair to me as always... ;) <BR> <BR>The only think that is strange to me is the categories, <b>I really don&acute;t know</b> in which category I must upload my skins. The skins are skins, who is choosing the category, me or GUI OLYMPICS ? <BR>
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