Background Contest/Results

Background contest

In April/May 2014, SugarLabs 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.

Results

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

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  Aros que flotan - Micaela Quinteros

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  Fondo6 - Patricio Ezequiel Pérez Zinola

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  Capas - Anastasia Nahir Bravo Méndez

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  ScreenPaperVectorXO3 - Andrés Collares

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  En llamas - Geraldine Borche

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  para todos xo - joel maximiliano

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  Los colores de mi país - Caroline Tamara Villar Risotto

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  Tranquility - Sai Vineet

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  fio:) - Fiorella de los santos

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  Circuloss - Olivia Agustina Romero Pintos

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  Figuras este es mi 2º Fondo que mando :) - Shakira Stephanie Sisto Fernandez

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  Fondo1 - Patricio Ezequiel Pérez Zinola

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  pintitas - Cristy Melanie Bula Garcia

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  tin - María Jorgelina Sena OLIvera

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  Fondo3 - Patricio Ezequiel Pérez Zinola

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  Fondo5 - Patricio Ezequiel Pérez Zinola

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  Fondo7 - Patricio Ezequiel Pérez Zinola

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

How to use the background images

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.