"We Are Free" Contest

The OSScamp Community is pleased to announce the opening up of India's premier community-driven blog on open source. Opening from August 1, the blog will be a central place to document the growth and development of open source in India. In our attempts to celebrate this new-found freedom, what's better than to share the love with the community this independence day. And so we are running a blogging contest. The contest runs from August 1 to August 15.

How do you participate?

Its very simple.

1. Register on the OSScamp Community (that is, if you havent done that already)
2. Write a blog post that passes through our Blogging Guidelines
3. Promote your posts on the social media (if you want to)
4. That's it

How do you win?

Once your posts have been published on the website, the community gets to vote on blog posts. We will also take into account the performance of your blogs on Social Media. The top-6 performing bloggers will be awarded at the end of the contest. The scores will be calculated on the basis of the performance of your posts as on August 25, 2009 and the winners will be announced on August 27, 2009.

• The first three bloggers win an annual subscription to Linux For You magazine, sponsored by Linux For You
• The next three bloggers win a .IN Domain name, sponsored by Digimantra.com

Scoring System

• Every Vote up on the website earns you +4 points
• Every Vote Down on the website earns you -1 point
• Every retweet (and identi.ca update) of your post earns you +1 point
• Every digg on your post earns you +2 point
• Every bookmark on delicious and stumbleupon earns you +1 point

Rules, Terms, Guidelines and Conditions

1. Only registered members can take part in the contest. You can make as many posts as you wish.
2. Only posts that get approved after the moderation process will be competing in the contest.
3. The posts must not belong to the categories News and Events.
4. Also to be eligible, you have to ReTweet this message
5. People associated with the sponsors and the OSScamp moderation team are not eligible in the contest.
6. If the moderation team believes that you are not competing fairly, you will be disqualified from the contest. This is a subjective decision, the moderation team will make.

Sponsors

Please do not sign up for the contest. Simply submit a blog post on the blog and retweet the message as mentioned above.