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This competition will select a logo to use in all metacpan related sites and
programs.

How to contend?
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  * Make a cool logo in scalable format

  * Make the same cool logo in 16x16 pixeled format

  * Name the logo your_email-logoname-date.svg and
    your_email-logoname-date.png (i.e: rafl_debian_org-coolstuff-110923.svg)

  * Submit the logo to contest@metacpan.org as a .zip or .tar.gz file.

  * The logos have to be submitted in SVG format and PNG.

  * We will put your logos on our blog and let everyone comment on it.

  * You can re-submit the logo after you got feedback from the
    blog. Re-submission is allowed as many times as you like.

  * After the $deadline we will not accept any more submissions.

  * Shortly after the deadline, everyone who has contributed to MetaCPAN can
    rank the logos and the logo with most points will be selected.

  * The winner will receive his/her prize and his/her name will be immortalised
    on the "thank you" page of metacpan!

  * The logo will be printed / used and abused everywhere!

Prize
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First prize will be a gift-certificate on amazon.com valid for $x that can be
used to buy whatever you want!

Rules
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  * Logo must be in scalable format (SVG) and a proof-of-concept 16x16 version
    of the logo must be also sent.

  * Logo must be submitted before $deadline.

  * The artist can submit infinite number of logos.

  * Copyright of the winning submission will be handed over to MetaCPAN team and
    a license will be granted for them to use it in any way they see fit.

  * Potential taxes on the prize will be payed by the winner.

  * The result of the contest can not be overruled or questioned.

  * Olaf Alders, Clinton Gormley, and Moritz Onken will have veto.

What are we looking for?
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  * Something clean and simple

  * Works in both color and black / white

  * Not the same old camel, onion, book thing that all other cpan and perl
    projects have

  * If the word "MetaCPAN" is included it should be as ONE word

  * A cool tagline will get bonus points