View source for Background Contest/Results

In April/May 2014, Sugar Labs held its first annual contest to create background images to be included in the next release of Sugar. It was a opportunity to stimulate kids to be artists, to explore and share, and to be part of a project used by million of kids in the world.

== Contest Results ==

The contest jury &mdash; by Artemis Papert, Gary Martin and Manuel Quiñones &mdash; selected the following images:

<gallery mode=packed heights=240px>
File:Aros que flotan.png|Aros que flotan - Micaela Quinteros
File:Fondo6.png|Fondo6 - Patricio Ezequiel Pérez Zinola
File:Capas.png|Capas - Anastasia Nahir Bravo Méndez
File:ScreenPaperVectorXO3.png|ScreenPaperVectorXO3 - Andrés Collares
File:En_llamas.png|En llamas - Geraldine Borche
File:Para_todos_xo.png|para todos xo - joel maximiliano
File:Los_colores_de_mi_pais.png|Los colores de mi país - Caroline Tamara Villar Risotto
File:Tranquility.png|Tranquility - Sai Vineet
File:Fio.png|fio:) - Fiorella de los santos
File:Circuloss.png|Circuloss - Olivia Agustina Romero Pintos
File:Figuras_este_es_mi_2o_Fondo_que_mando.png|Figuras este es mi 2º Fondo que mando :) - Shakira Stephanie Sisto Fernandez
File:Fondo1.png|Fondo1 - Patricio Ezequiel Pérez Zinola
File:Pintitas.png|pintitas - Cristy Melanie Bula Garcia
File:Tin.png|tin - María Jorgelina Sena OLIvera
File:Fondo3.png|Fondo3 - Patricio Ezequiel Pérez Zinola
File:Fondo5.png|Fondo5 - Patricio Ezequiel Pérez Zinola
File:Fondo7.png|Fondo7 - Patricio Ezequiel Pérez Zinola
</gallery>

Congratulations to the winners and a warm thanks to all who participated.

== How to use the background images ==

=== Using rpm package ===

Download this rpm package [http://people.sugarlabs.org/~german/sugar-0.102-backgrounds/sugar-backgrounds-0.102-1.noarch.rpm sugar-backgrounds-0.102-1.noarch.rpm] and then just install it using yum or rpm.

 yum localinstall sugar-backgrounds-0.102-1.noarch.rpm

or

 rpm -ivh sugar-backgrounds-0.102-1.noarch.rpm

=== Download and Copy ===

You need Sugar 0.100 or better to set the background. You can download any of the images and copy them to your "Documents" folder. 
Then you can go to "My Settings" and select the Background section.

A file containing all the images is available [[File:Contest.tar.gz]]

To install it, copy the file in your Documents folder and in the Terminal do:

 cd Documents
 tar xzvf Contest.tar.gz

These images will be available by default in new versions of Sugar.

== License ==

All the images are licensed as Creative Commons BY-SA ([https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Attribution-ShareAlike])