Running a wallpaper contest

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Discourse: Announcement Template

Examples: 22.10 Kinetic Kudu

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We will be collecting submissions in responses to this thread. Once submission closes we will provide a link to vote for your favorite submission. The top 10 images will be featured on discourse, Ubuntu social media, and in a blog on ubuntu.com. The top (:pencil2: FIVE/TEN) submissions will make it into the (:pencil2: 22.10) official release image!

To take part, [[:pencil2: witty quip encouraging amazing works of art]] and respond to this thread with your work of art. Please ensure the following:

  • You must own the rights to the image you are submitting, it should be your original work of art.
  • The full quality image must be 3840x2160px.
  • Please ensure you create a high quality image. Avoid image compression artifacts, pixelation, chromatic aberration and noise. Please do not add any watermarks, names or logos. See also these helpful guidelines from GNOME on screen backgrounds.
  • When posting your image, please include a note that you are licensing the image as CC BY-SA 4.0 or CC BY 4.0 . If you do not specify a license we will assume CC BY-SA 4.0 . By entering the competition you are agreeing to these license terms.
  • See this page for detailed information regarding our rules.

Regarding choice of artwork, we also have the following guidelines:

  • Using Ubuntu Orange or Canonical Purple is not a requirement! You are welcome to be colorful, as long as it doesn’t appear like a different Linux distribution.
  • You do not necessarily have to use the (:pencil2: release animal). Maybe there is a more abstract version of it, or that nature photo you’ve been squatting on is truly amazing as a background?

Here is the timeline for the contest (:pencil2: adjust the dates):

  • 2022-06-24T00:00:00Z (now!) — we open submissions in this thread
  • 2022-08-10T00:00:00Z — Submissions close, and we begin the voting period.
  • 2022-08-24T00:00:00Z — Voting closes
  • 2022-08-25T12:00:00Z — The winners are announced during the day and the winning wallpapers are prepared to go into Ubuntu (:pencil2: 22.10) beta.

If you are looking for inspiration take a look at the (:pencil2: last two releases) 22.04 results or 21.10 results .

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Discourse: Voting thread

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Here you will find all of the submissions from our amazing community of artists! Please vote by liking :heart: any number of wallpapers below that you would wish to see included in the next release of Ubuntu. You can vote for more than a single entry. The top most voted for wallpapers will be included in the release of Ubuntu 22.10 “Kinetic Kudu”.

Here is the timeline for the contest (:pencil2: adjust the dates):

  • 2022-06-24T00:00:00Z — we open submissions in this thread
  • 2022-08-10T00:00:00Z — Submissions close, and we begin the voting period.
  • 2022-08-24T00:00:00Z — Voting closes
  • 2022-08-25T12:00:00Z — The winners are announced during the day and the winning wallpapers are prepared to go into Ubuntu (:pencil2: 22.10) beta.

Discourse: Voting results

Add this to the original submission thread and the voting thread:

Voting has closed! Here are the results as of (:pencil2: 00:00 UTC). The following will be in Ubuntu (:pencil2: release animal):

These wallpapers were also pretty amazing, if you enjoy them as well feel free to add them to your wallpaper set:

Social Messages

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