I hope we get something as good-looking as that proposal they had for the redesign of the Python website (which looked absolutely amazing I thought).
Ruby Association: ruby-lang.org Design Contest
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Re: Ruby Association: ruby-lang.org Design Contest
#12"Knowledge of creating HTML files using Jekyll is required" This seems ridiculous. They want a good designer willing to work for free, AND they must know an obscure Ruby CMS? Here's an idea: Just require the designer to know HTML, then you guys make it work with Jekyll. You're the Rubyists, after all.
Why not use a Ruby tool to generate a static page for Ruby's website?
I'm sure there's plenty of designers, who know Ruby, who would do this.
Re: Ruby Association: ruby-lang.org Design Contest
#13I have to say, at first glance this might feel like spec work, but it really isn't.
This isn't any different from what developers and all the other people put in to building and maintaining open-source projects such as this.
And especially being a developer myself, I believe that a lot of open-source projects can really use some love when it comes to visual design and UX, even big well known projects like Gimp can use some of that love.
Just my 0.0001571 BTC
Re: Ruby Association: ruby-lang.org Design Contest
#14Not sure how I feel about this one. Design contests suck, and don't even work that well generally, but open source contributions obviously aren't the same as free spec work. Why not put out a redesign call and get a few designers working as a team from the ones who respond?
Re: Ruby Association: ruby-lang.org Design Contest
#15"Knowledge of creating HTML files using Jekyll is required" This seems ridiculous. They want a good designer willing to work for free, AND they must know an obscure Ruby CMS? Here's an idea: Just require the designer to know HTML, then you guys make it work with Jekyll. You're the Rubyists, after all.
Seems like it's a good pre-filter. The designers who do know Jekyll are likely to be pretty good and well rounded. If they only required HTML, you might end up with a bunch of guys that think they know design because they're great in Dreamweaver.
Designers these days have to do more than picking the right font and background color. They have to consider different devices, proper i18n, and accessibility. Back in 2002, only knowing html was good enough.