Hi Jonathan, I think closing the contest now is not a good thing to do in a political sense. Announcing some deadline and then changing it or the rules is really discouraging. People must be sure of stability. They must be sure that the rules, specs and the deadline are fixed and won't be changed in the middle of the contest. They won't participate otherwise. (I know it very well, we have the same situation with business in our country).
I saw several art competitions, and in all of them the number of submissions almost doubled during the last week before the deadline. That was outside the free software community, though. Also, I can't see why a contest and dedicated work can't go hand to hand. The dedicated work is out of competition by definition. Just reserve the place on the CD for it and let the contest go on. I also can't see the point of including just 3 wallpapers: Ubuntu shipped 18 with Maverick, and I don't think you have more strict size limit than Ubuntu. Respectfully, -- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
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