The Ubuntu project has announced the launch of its second Free Culture Showcase initiative. The developers behind the popular Linux distribution are giving artists in the free culture community a unique opportunity to have their creative works included in the next major version of Ubuntu.
Participants can submit music, video clips, or images, which will be evaluated by a panel of judges. The winning items will be included on the Ubuntu 9.04 Live CD and in the default installation. In order to qualify, all creative works submitted to the contest must be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license, which permits modification and redistribution of content.
"The Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase is an opportunity to bring the best of two great worlds together by showing off high quality Free Culture content in Ubuntu," wrote Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon in a blog entry. "The winning submissions will be made available on the shipped CDs and download images of the Ubuntu 9.04 release. Every user will be able to find the content in the Examples/ folder in a home directory."
The showcase will be accepting submissions until February 6. A panel of judges will choose an assortment of the best submissions and then the Ubuntu Community Council will select the actual winners from among those finalists. There is a limited amount of space on the installation CD for including free culture art, so submissions must stay within the size constraints dictated by the contest rules. For more details, see the Free Culture Showcase page at the Ubuntu wiki and the announcement at the official Creative Commons blog.
Resource - Ars Technica
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