Last week the Cairo Team introduced our Design Faceoff Contest. Thus far, we have had some great submissions. It will certainly be hard to decide a winner. Don’t forget, if you want to submit a wallpaper for the competition, the deadline is June 2.
As for Cairo, development is proceeding as planned and as far as we can tell, is still on track for a tentative Milestone 1 release of June 29. I would like to publicly thank our developers, Dustin Hanson, David Hart, and Nic Newman for their dedication and hard work thus far. They are truly doing a wonderful job and deserve a lot of praise for their efforts. I would also like to thank Sam Johnson, another team member who worked tediously with me to get our new site design up and running.
I will end this post with a fun fact: If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
Best wishes,
The Cairo Team
As you all know, we have our Milestone 1 tentatively scheduled for June 29, 2008. Aside from being a great opportunity to get our community involved and to improve Cairo’s overall quality, we thought it would be nice to give those who aren’t part of our private alpha a chance to join in as well. As a result, we will be running a contest from now until June 2 to reward the best designers in our community.
An important part of our lives and certainly an important part of the Cairo desktop environment, design is increasingly becoming an major point of significance in the technological world. So Cairo community, this is your chance!
Send us your best wallpaper representing a few of Cairo’s core values: simplicity and beauty. The first prize winner will be entered in our upcoming milestone, get access to our private forum, and have their design become the official Cairo wallpaper for the Milestone. The runner up will have their wallpaper added to our downloads section as a featured item and get a custom forum title. Third place will receive a custom forum title.
The rules of the contest are as follows:
(a) You may only submit 2 wallpapers during the 4-week contest period.
(b) Offensive or disturbing wallpapers are not allowed.
(c) Wallpapers must be submitted in both standard and widescreen aspect ratios and must have a minimum resolution of 1600px x 1200px.
(d) Be creative and original!
The winners will be announced Tuesday, June 2. Good luck and happy designing!
-The Cairo Team
