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Ruby Association: ruby-lang.org Design Contest

by jgnatch on 10/1/13, 5:10 PM with 14 comments

  • by mapgrep on 10/1/13, 8:02 PM

    "Knowledge of creating HTML files using Jekyll is required"

    This seems ridiculous. They want a good designer willing to work for free, AND they must know an obscure Ruby CMS?

    Here's an idea: Just require the designer to know HTML, then you guys make it work with Jekyll. You're the Rubyists, after all.

  • by danpalmer on 10/1/13, 5:45 PM

    Do any designers want to comment on whether this is a good deal or not? On one hand: featured on ruby-lang.org, on the other hand, it doesn't pay.

    While good for inexperienced designers, this seems a little unfair to try and get free work out of people, but I'd be interested to know if designers tend to feel this way or not.

  • by mcmire on 10/1/13, 7:39 PM

    This isn't very useful, unfortunately. There aren't any requirements for this. All it says is "come up with a design!" This is about as useful as saying "Write something about any subject!"

    Has there been any pre-discussion on this? Where did this come from?

  • by llamataboot on 10/1/13, 11:21 PM

    Not sure how I feel about this one. Design contests suck, and don't even work that well generally, but open source contributions obviously aren't the same as free spec work. Why not put out a redesign call and get a few designers working as a team from the ones who respond?
  • by usmanbashir on 10/1/13, 9:47 PM

    I have to say, at first glance this might feel like spec work, but it really isn't.

    This isn't any different from what developers and all the other people put in to building and maintaining open-source projects such as this.

    And especially being a developer myself, I believe that a lot of open-source projects can really use some love when it comes to visual design and UX, even big well known projects like Gimp can use some of that love.

    Just my 0.0001571 BTC

  • by VeejayRampay on 10/1/13, 8:46 PM

    I hope we get something as good-looking as that proposal they had for the redesign of the Python website (which looked absolutely amazing I thought).