[A2k] Wikimania Free Content Contest

[Elizabeth Stark]

Hi all,

Free Culture is co-sponsoring the Wikimania 2006 Free Content Awards. We are
actively soliciting submissions so please forward this widely. We are also
looking for more sponsors (to especially help in the judging category), so
please email me if you're interested. You need not be physically present at the
conference to submit or to judge.

The Wikimania 2006 Conference will take place Aug. 4-6 in Cambridge, MA. More
info at <http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org>.

Elizabeth

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Wikimania Awards

The Wikimania Awards were created to promote the creation of excellent
free content around the world.  The authors of such content have made
millions of ad-hoc collages, designs, and art exhibits possible.

Awards are being given to the best entries in each of nine categories,
covering video, animation, audio, photography, and drawing.

The Rules are understandable, yet complex:

 - Each submission can be entered for one category only.
 - Submissions must be licensed under the GFDL or Creative Commons
     Share-Alike 2.0 license, multi licensed including one of these
     licenses, or released into the public domain.  They must be clearly
     copyright compliant (e.g., there should be no copyright concerns
     about the subject of the media)
 - Submissions should be suitable for use on one or more Wikimedia
     projects (not Commons alone)

 - Entries should be uploaded to commons and listed at the gallery page
     on the Wikimania2006 site :
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Awards

 - Submissions may not have been uploaded to a Wikimedia project prior
     to August 8, 2005
 - The closing date for most submissions is August 1, 2006.
   The closing date for the last category (material created at or on the
     way to Wikimania) is 23:00 EST, August 5, 2006

 - File types:
    - Audio should be submitted as .ogg files
    - Photos should be submitted as .jpg files
    - Video should be submitted as .ogg or .mpeg

 - Photos should be suitable for printing at 20 X 30cm. Audio and video
   should be no more than 50 MB in size after compression

 - Submissions may be digitally manipulated to improve any aspect, but
   should remain a true and accurate representation of the subject.


Judging:

 * Preference is given to original work (as opposed to material created
    by government or other projects)
 * Extra credit will be given to difficult-to-obtain subjects. That
    means that the immolating unicorns have an advantage over your little
    sister with a flower.  Although we do realize that your sister is
    special and there is no other like her in the world, we take a strong
    pro-unicorn stance.