Inkscape

Cool!

thanks, evansbsr!

Hi Barbara

Thanks for this great submission.

I have checked and verified this entry conforms to the Competition Rules.

Many Thanks
Tim.

Good job Barbara! I love your draw

So clean. Yes it REALLY IS like the cover of a giftbox! ...or a superb piece of software! (remember when software was once sold to you in a box?) I would love for this to win, and I hope it rakes in many votes. However, I'm afraid that certain ("flashier"? "crowd-favorite"?) entries will cause a kind of bias for this election.

When future contests are held, imagine having MORE THAN A SINGLE VOTE to spend! Maybe if you could vote for 4 or 5 entries, perhaps with a sequential-preference-grade (Rank#1 = most favorite; Rank#2 = next favorite; etc), then it could paint (no, not paint! -- we DRAW here in vectorland) a more honest picture for how the "seemingly-less-popular" entry ACTUALLY performs.

It might be the only way for some entries to have a more honest and well-earned chance of succeeding. And rightfully so, because here's an example: Let's say that a "popular" image takes a whopping 40% of the vote as Rank#1. However, a quieter entry scores quite well with 65% voting it as Rank#4.

Those kinds of numbers give a better breakdown/overview of how pieces are actually received by viewers, and it gives the underdog an actual, well-deserved shot at being a contender.

Otherwise, in a “Winner-Takes-All” ruling, some of those "actually-favored" pieces will slip through cracks, perhaps snagging only a handful of votes (when truthfully, it actually had a support-base of 65%)!