openSUSE.Asia Summit 2023 Logo Competition Announcement

openSUSE.Asia Summit 2023 Logo Competition

Today is the launch of our logo competition for the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2023. A logo is an integral part of the openSUSE.Asia Summit experience. As you have seen, the previous openSUSE.Asia Summits have their unique logos that reflect the communities where the Summit took place. In line with tradition, we have a logo contest to have a great logo for this year’s summit. The openSUSE.Asia Summit will be held this year in Chongqing, China, details are available here.

The competition is now open. It will close on 16 July 2023. The organizers will send a “Geeko Mystery Box” as a reward for the best designed logo.

Deadline: 16 July 2023

Announcement Winner: Week of July 24

The Rules of the contest are as follows:

• The logo should be licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0 and allow everyone to use the logo without attribution (BY) if your work is used as the logo of openSUSE.Asia Summit 2023. Note that the attribution is going to be shown on the summit website.
• Design must be original and should not include any third party materials conflicting with CC-BY-SA 4.0 with the attribution exception.
• Both monochromes and color formats are essential for submission.
• Submissions must be in SVG format.
• Design should reflect the openSUSE community in Asia.
• The logo should avoid the following things:
  • Brand names or trademarks of any kind.
  • Illustrations that may consider inappropriate, offensive, hateful, tortuous, defamatory, slanderous or libelous.
  • Sexually explicit or provocative images.
  • Violence or weapons.
  • Alcohol, tobacco, or drug use imagery.
  • Discrimination based on race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
  • Bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against groups or individuals
  • Religious, political, or nationalist imagery.
• The logo should follow “openSUSE Project Trademark Guidelines” published at HERE
• The branding guidelines will be helpful to design your logo (optional)

Please submit your design to opensuseasia-summit@googlegroups.com with the following entries:

• Subject: openSUSE.Asia Summit 2023 Logo Design - [your name]
• Your name and mail address to contact
• A document about philosophy of the design (txt or pdf)
• Vector file of the design with SVG format ONLY.
• Bitmap of design in attachment — image size: 256*256 px at least, PNG format.
• File size less than 512 KB.

The openSUSE.Asia Summit Committee will decide on the logos, subject to the condition, that the logo meets all the requirements. The final decision will be made by openSUSE.Asia Summit Committee and it may not be the highest scored design. We recommend the artist to use Inkscape, a powerful, free and open source vector graphics tool for all kinds of design.