World play day competition for your kids

[Laura Czajkowski]

Aloha folks!!!!!!!!!


Are you the parent of a young girl that likes to play with technology? 
If so, this competition from the Ubuntu Women project 
<http://ubuntu-women.org/> is ideal for you.

To celebrate World Play Day <http://www.itla-toylibraries.org/wpdv.htm>, 
the Ubuntu Women project is running a photography competition, with the 
prizes including a Dell Mini 10n netbook! To enter, just submit photos 
of the young girl in your family having fun with Ubuntu.

The competition aims to bust the stereotype that it’s only young boys 
that enjoy playing with computers, and to show young girls that they can 
play with anything they want – be that dolls and dressup, or the 
household PC.

The competition is open to everyone. You don’t have to be an active 
member of the Ubuntu / Ubuntu Women community to participate (although 
you’re always welcome to join us on IRC or the forums if you have the 
time!). We’re looking for a wide range of entries from all kinds of family.

*The pictures will be judged on how well they promote the image that 
“girls love computers”.*

Read on for full details of the competition.

/A pivotal issue within computing cultures of today is the overemphasis 
on boys and men as the primary consumers of technology. Children learn 
by example and since the majority of media images consist of boys 
playing computer type games and girls playing with stereotypical 
princess type dolls; this contributes to the lack of involvement in 
science and technology by our young women./

/It hurts us all to have this subconscious of pigeonholing of our 
children, and to help counter this for Ubuntu’s community, we would love 
to have a collection of examples of young girls (toddlers through to 12 
years old) playing with — and loving, and being encouraged to pursue — 
Ubuntu. This would allow parents of girls to demonstrate that it really 
is ok to be intrigued by the shiny screens, blinking lights, tappity-tap 
of keyboards, and faint whirs of computer fans./

/The girls do not have to be alone in the photos, and photos taken prior 
to this announcement are eligible. We are not expecting any particular 
pose, but we would much prefer candid shots — they say SO much more. We 
do prefer that the images come at a large resolution, in a standard
format (JPEG, PNG) and not embedded in documents. /

*Please email your photos (or links to flickr, etc.) to 
ubuntuwomen.competition at gmail.com by UTC 23:59 14th of May 2010.*

By submitting a photo, you acknowledge that it will be posted on the 
Ubuntu Women Website under the Creative Commons 
Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/> license, with 
special considerations for use within the Ubuntu Women and Ubuntu 
project (please see Photo/Model Release waiver). If you prefer that your 
photo to be posted under a less restrictive license such as Creative 
Commons Attribution <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/> or 
Public Domain <http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain>, then feel free 
to let us know when you submit. As this competition involves visual 
depictions of people, we will require that a “Photo/Model Release” 
waiver 
<http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Events/Competitions/WorldPlayDay/Announcement/ModelReleaseWaiver> 
be signed for each person in the photo. A parent or guardian of minors 
must sign this waiver form for their children or charges.

There will be two (2) prizes up for grabs. One (1) prize will be given 
to the photo that the community feels sells the “girls love computers” 
line the best. One (1) prize will be given to a randomly drawn entrant.
Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu Community Manager will be drawing this entrant in 
a videocast, and announcing both winners to the world on May 28th.

We will celebrate World Play Day by announcing the two winners. The 
first of whom will be the popular voted Community Choice, and will 
receive a Dell Mini 10n (or equivalent net-book based on availability).
The second winner chosen by random drawing will receive a Canonical 
Sponsored Ubuntu SWAG collection that includes: Mouse- pad, Silly putty, 
Recycled Ubuntu Notepad, Ubuntu pen, Ubuntu lanyard, Ubuntu pack of 3 
pin-badges and 1 Organic Circle of Friends Ladies T-shirt.


Laura

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