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