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.