Interview: Brendan Whelan, OpenOffice.org 2.0 Splashscreen Designer
2005-02-23
勝利者, Splashscreen 競争. Artist: Brendan Whelan
早期に 2005 we held a 競争 for a fitting splashscreen to grace the new OpenOffice.org 2.0. Millions, tens of millions, will see it each day as they start up their OpenOffice.org 2.0, so the splashscreen 競争 was やめる important. Of the hundreds of submissions, we chose eleven. We then held a 投票（する） の中で all community members (登録（する）d members of OpenOffice.org), and the 勝利者 was Brendan Whelan.
Congratulations Brendan!
The design, which you see above, 逮捕（する）s the flow of OpenOffice.org's famous seagulls and waves while giving them a clean, modern look.
すぐに after he was 知らせるd he had won, I asked Brendan a couple of questions. Below, are his answers.
The image is very professional. What is your background?
I'm a professional programmer. Computer Art is one of my hobbies and I've used it for graphical elements for my own 開発 事業／計画（する）s in the past.
Can you speak to the origins of your design?
I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to use the 存在するing OpenOffice.org motifs of waves and gulls, but to give it a more dynamic, three-dimensional feel. I used the repeating curves to blend a wave into a gull, and also 追加するd some soft clouds to give that "open" sky feeling. The feeling I was going for was a flow of the wave into the gull, which then almost comes out above you through the clouds and sky. The curves, 存在 わずかに different to each other and dimming with distance, were designed to give an three-dimensional feeling of 動議 and depth to a two-dimension image.
How did you get 利益／興味d in OpenOffice.org? And why open source?
I've been aware of OpenOffice.org.org for a year or two as a 候補者 office 控訴 that 競争相手s 商業の 代案／選択肢s ーに関して／ーの点でs of cost and open 基準s. It is (in my 見解（をとる）) the highest profile open-source 事業／計画（する） around, perhaps because an office 控訴 is the 肉親，親類d of 使用／適用 that almost every computer 使用者 will use.
I'm a 正規の／正選手 reader of slashdot.org, where open source and OpenOffice.org, both feature 定期的に. I first heard about the splash 審査する 競争 there and thought it would be a 広大な／多数の／重要な 適切な時期 to 与える／捧げる and create a new image for OpenOffice.org: an image which is true to its open spirit on the one 手渡す, and yet professional enough to place OpenOffice.org in with its 商業の 代案／選択肢s.
As for open source - I think the open source movement is the one 転換 in ソフトウェア 開発 that will have the greatest 衝撃 on the ソフトウェア 産業, now and in the 近づく 未来.
Thanks, Brendan!
