[LAD] LAO website and competition

Hi, The linuxaudio.org portal is the official home for Linux Audio Developers, Linux Audio Users and the Linux Audio Consortium. There are several other projects that are hosted on the server as subdomains. In general they work independently of each other and have no specific theme that is officially mandated. It is time to change the mandate to have a more general theme or thread woven into the templates of the various sub domains that identifies the projects as being part of the portal and reflect the worldwide nature of the Linux Audio Community. If anyone has ideas, suggestions or feels creative enough to design a template that can be used as a basis for the theme we always welcome your input. To make it a little more fun we will run a competition for the design. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The competition will be hosted here: http://lau.linuxaudio.org http://quicktoots.linuxaudio.org You can get a feel for the existing sites by checking out the linuxaudio.org portal http://linuxaudio.org/resources The prizes will be officially presented at the next Linux Audio Conference where the winners will also be announced. The Linux Audio Conference 2009 16-19 April 2009 La Casa della Musica Palazzo Cusani Parma, Italy +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To start things off Boost Hardware will sponsor $US500 to be distributed for the prizes. I am also seeking offers of sponsorship from any businesses that work with Linux Audio software and community projects. There are a few of you out there so don't be shy. This is a great opportunity to show your support. The deadline for submissions will be the 31 Jan 2009. All submissions will need to be licensed as open source. The official decision for the winners of the prizes will be made by private vote of the Consortium board. It will be entirely in the discretion of the Consortium board how to apply the designs/ideas/templates or concepts that are finally selected. No members of the consortium board or sponsors will be elligible for prizes but submissions will still be accepted. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ We will provide more detailed information as the deadline approaches. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd.