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@_elena And if they really want to see several directions by several people (a luxury that most design clients don’t get really), they could use the budget they have for the second and third prizes to hire 2–3 people to create sketches/concepts before choosing one and pay them the first prize budget. But at least everyone gets hired fairly :)

@_elena Really they could either:

– Go the proper way, make a call for offers, receive portfolios/quotes and choose one designer to collaborate with.

– Go the open source way if they prefer, have people offering logos/mascots, all online, with public votes, etc.

But the midway, asking for people to do the entire work and send it to them privately for them to choose, it’s making people work for free, not an open source contribution. They wouldn’t do that for pull requests or other dev tasks?

@_elena I know it’s an floss project, but this is basically asking for free spec work, with the off chance of getting paid a little only if you win. Not many professionals will answer that call.

With their budget of 1500€, they can hire someone working fulltime for 2‑3 days maybe. The result will be much better, it’ll be an actual cooperation with proper briefing and feedback rounds, etc.

With a contest, they risk having most people just sending things they spent a couple of hours on, tops.