Show us your pumpkins!

We’re giving away $50 for the best pumpkin related to open source, Linux, Red Hat, Creative Commons, or any of the other things we post about here. Carve it, paint it, however you want to decorate it, as long as it’s creative. If you happen to have a pumpkin that naturally grew in the likeness of Linus Torvalds, we’ll even take it as is.

If you create a pattern, please also send the pattern so we can post it for other people to use. Call it open source jack-o-lanterning. But we also understand that some people are freehanders, so no pattern, no worry. You can create a pattern afterwards, or we can create a pattern from your photo.

Send us a picture by October 29. The winner will be announced on Halloween. Instructables has tips on taking pictures of your pumpkins.

If you’d like to use a pumpkin to show your open source love, but you don’t feel the creative vibe to make your own pattern, here are some you can use, as well as instructions for making a pattern.

• Shadowman [easy] [advanced]
• Fedora [advanced]
• “The Screen Savers” is long off the air, but you can still get their instructions for making Tux, which can be used to create a pattern from any picture.

Oh, one last thing. Please, don’t put a fedora on a penguin. Shadowman hates that.

This entry was posted by Ruth Suehle on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 at 2:33 pm and is filed under culture. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.