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The developers of Tux Paint, the award-winning open source drawing application for children, are conducting a drawing contest for children, sponsored and judged by Worldlabel.com.

Open to any child aged 3 to 12, the contest is a chance to win one of three OLPC XO-1 subnotebook computers, a USB-bootable version of the XO-1’s “Sugar” environment (”Sugar-on-a-stick”), or a Tux Paint t-shirt.

Submissions are due by midnight, Eastern Standard Time (UTC-0500), on September 12, 2011. Ten (10) winners will be announced no later than September 22, 2011.

Rules

• Open to children aged 3 to 12, anywhere in the world.
• Only one entry per child.
• All artwork must be the contestant’s original work created using Tux Paint. ¹
• Submit the following, via email to worldlabel@gmail.com, by midnight EST, September 12:
  • Artist’s name
  • Artist’s age
  • Title of the drawing
  • Country where the artist lives
  • Attach the drawing as a PNG file ²
• Entries will be judged on the quality and originality of the artwork.
• Extra points will be given to drawings that tell a story.
• All entries will be licensed Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported ³ and will be exhibited at the Worldlabel.com blog.

Further details and eligibility requirements are posted in an announcement at Worldlabel.com’s blog: http://blog.worldlabel.com/2011/tux-paint-kids-summer-drawing-contest.html.

Rules Notes:

1 Download Tux Paint from www.tuxpaint.org/download/.

2 http://tuxpaint.org/gallery/submit/#where briefly describes where Tux Paint stores its saved drawings.

3 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 describes the Creative Commons license that will be used.

On 14th August, 2011, a group of teachers gathered at Govt. High School Kuttiupram, Malappuram to localize gcomprise. They were all new to localization. They learned the basics of localizing software and how to use po files to translate the content and how to submit the translations upstream. The output of their work is posted to http://l10n.gnome.org/vertimus/gcompris/master/po/ml

The plan is to build a complete localized version of Gcompris for Kerala to use in the primary classes.