I have received a few questions and wanted to clarify for folks why we are doing certain things in the contest:

1. PSD files: We are requesting PSD files because we are trying to standardize the skinning interface for Kalendar. We are familiar with working with PSD files and this will be the fastest and more efficient way for use to create the images and CSS required to implement the new UI. Also, many design programs will export to PSD format keeping all layers intact. We do not want to accept CSS/HTML formats because it would essentially require a lot of reverse engineering to fit the skin files into the Kalendar system's skinning interfaces.

2. What happens to your submission if it is not chosen? Well, the rules state that all entries become licensed under Apache 2.0. This is primarily because we do not want folks questioning what we plan to do with these files after the contest. ALL entries will become available as downloads via the demo site. All submissions will get credit, with a link to the designer's site. We will not modify the designs which did not win in any way, they will simply be provided as assets to the project for others to use if they want to create their own skins.

3. Deadline: The deadline states that all submissions must be received before Saturday October 13th at 12:00AM. This means you must have your submissions sent in by Friday, October 12th at 11:59:59PM to be eligible. However, we have considered extending this deadline to give you designer-types a little extra time to do a quality job. We will post on this soon, I am discussing it with the rest of the team.