Create a Theme and Win Big!
I’m excited to announce that the ScaleNine “Skin to Win Challenge” is officially under way! If you’ve ever entertained the idea of making a skin and submitting to ScaleNine, nows your chance to win some great prizes in the process. We’re looking for entries to award a first, second and third prize to people who create an awesome theme for Flex 3.
We were able to pull together some amazing prizes and judges with help from Adobe and EffectiveUI. Prizes for first place include:
- (1) MacBook Air with SSD
- (1) Ticket to MAX North America or Europe
- (1) Copy of Adobe CS3 Master Suite
- (1) Copy of Flex Builder Professional
- And a Feature on the Adobe Developer Network
With those prizes you can picture yourself at Adobe MAX sitting at the keynote with your MacBook Air coding away while people point and ask, “Hey, isn’t that the guy featured on the Adobe Dev Net? You know, the one who won that contest?” 
We’ve got some great prizes for second and third place, as well as “spot prizes” for people who put forth a strong effort.
You might be thinking, “I’m no designer” or “I’m no coder”, but why not team up with someone? You can find a designer or developer to collaborate with and divvy up the prizes. It’s a great excuse to get up to speed with skinning Flex components and thanks to Andrew Shorten, Adobe Platform Evangelist, you’ve got several tutorial videos to learn from.
Get all the information about the ScaleNine “Skin to Win Challenge”
Also, I’d like to thank Patrick Hansen, UX Designer from EffectiveUI, for making that sweet logo for the contest; Paulo Rizkalla, Developer for EffectiveUI, for helping me with some website stuff; and Mike Potter and Andrew Shorten of Adobe for their help putting this all together.
August 10th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Cool contest and that logo rocks
August 10th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Of some1 like me who isn’t parcipating (not that much of experience with Themes) could I still use them once they are released?
August 11th, 2008 at 5:42 am
Nice idea!
is there any end date to this contest?
August 11th, 2008 at 7:53 am
@Raul – You have 2 months to learn how to create a theme
Yes, all submission will be publicly available.
@Boubalou – The contest ends October 10th. More details here: http://www.scalenine.com/contest/
August 13th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Why is the entry restricted to certain countries? Can’t you open it up worldwide?
August 24th, 2008 at 2:34 am
Good idea, liked the logo, too!
One question though:
Is SkinPreview.zip file just for reference or do we need to include that file (with my css and assets) when submitting the entry?
Thanks.
August 26th, 2008 at 9:48 am
@Oz – Check out what needs to be included here: http://www.scalenine.com/contest/submit-an-entry.php
The reason we ask for the whole project is to make it really easy to compile and view the entry, especially if the MXML was altered. You could probably get away with providing a compiled version of your entry, along with the non-compiled CSS and graphical assets.