Pumpkin contest reminder
by Ruth Suehle
Been thinking about entering our pumpkin contest but just don’t have any ideas? Red Hat Magazine writer Nicu Buculei has one for you.
Where I live people do not celebrate Halloween, don’t do trick-or-treating, and do not carve pumpkins for this day.
I have no experience of carving pumpkins so I don’t want to enter the contest, but I have a picture to share: I made a cartoon character for my blog and imagined some scenarios around it, one of them being inspired by your contest.
The tradition is to have a name (not widely used, more for internal use) for each Fedora release, and the upcoming Fedora 8 (due in about 2 weeks) received, as a result of a community vote, the name “Werewolf.”
The deadline is Monday, October 29, so you still have a few days to carve. Send us your pumpkins–there’s $50 at stake here!
October 26th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Maybe I should write at some point a short tutorial about that, but the conversion from PNG to JPEG for that image is not that good, you flattened all the drop shadows and it is quite ugly, compare it with a hand crafted JPEG, where the quality is better and the file size smaller: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/artwork/funny/werewolf_f8_halloween.jpg
And as I like to share, the source as SVG: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/artwork/funny/werewolf_f8_halloween.svg
October 26th, 2007 at 4:41 am
I WANNA CARVE ME A FEDORA PUNKIN!!!!
/me gets to work :)
October 26th, 2007 at 7:16 am
Nicu -
You’re right; now that I compare, there’s a pretty significant difference. But I didn’t do anything at all. It must have happened in the Flickr upload. Thanks for adding the links!