Wishlist for Theme/Design Contest

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This is a proposal for a contest to promote Drupal theming and design.

Goals

  • Get more beautiful themes into Drupal
  • Get the designer and theming community involved
  • Showcase Drupal theming done right
  • Increase awareness of Drupal

What to call it:

The Drupal 2009...

  • Theming and Design Contributions
  • Theming and Design Initiative
  • Design Contest
  • Theming Contest
  • Design Challenge
  • Theming Challenge

Phases

  • 1st phase: Design and mockups. Deliberation at end of 1st phase. Winner chosen from designs will move on to 2nd phase.
  • 2nd phase: Coding Theme

OR

  • No deliberation until the end but have deadlines for each phase.

Evaluation

  • blind voting system, voting open to public
  • peer review from design and theme experts

Categories

  • all-purpose theme
  • clean and simple
  • company site
  • personal blog
  • product site
  • intranet
  • portal
  • e-commerce
  • portfolio/exhibition site

Audience Categories

  • Children
  • Teenagers
  • Young adults
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Profession Categories

  • Arts
  • Music
  • Politics
  • Science
  • Technology

Features (optional)

  • login interface
  • calendar interface
  • slide shows or image galleries
  • media player or media jukebox
  • well-styled forms
  • map / geography features
  • press room
  • group interface
  • UI / UX enhancements
  • User Registration interface
  • bi-di support (right-to-left language support)

Features (mandatory)

TBD

Requirements

  • must validate XHTML 1.0 Transitional
  • must validate W3C HTML & CSS validators
  • must be a table-less design
  • must support, at a minimum, Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2, Safari 3, Opera 9.5, Google Chrome
  • must meet accessibility guidelines, at a minimum 508 compliance?
  • must provide designs in Photoshop PSD format
  • code must be licensed a the GNU GPL v2 license
  • must provide code in an installable Drupal 6 theme
  • code must be checked into Drupal.org CVS

Above and beyond the normal theme

  • well documented. Has an FAQ, README, PHPDOC, code remarks?
  • provides alternate style sheets , ex. print, mobile
  • supports WCAG/WAI-ARIA for people with disabilities
  • uses grid-based CSS frameworks
  • supports the color module
  • supports legacy browsers like IE6
  • document and image file size optimized
  • clean and easy to read code

Winner

  • best in category

Losers

  • participants who don't win, retain all rights and ownership of their theme although they are encouraged to license their theme under the GPL license and host on d.o

Awards

  • cash prizes
  • trophies, medals
  • interview, photo op and mention on d.o homepage
  • marketing and PR to greater media outlets
  • material prizes, trip to DrupalCon Paris, software, electronics, etc.

Timeline for 2009

  • March - April - Solicit ideas and funding from community
  • May - June - Implementation of site and features
  • July - August - Conduct RFT (request for themes)
  • September - Winner Announcement at DrupalCon Paris

Examples of other contests

Theme development

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