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Ok, so… took some time, but we are almost there!

I just announced to Ruby-Talk the release of the preview version of the installers.

RubyInstaller: Building installers story and news

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As previous announced, contest entry is now closed.

You can review all the designs submitted here, and also read the comments from each designer.

In no special order:

• Thuva Tharma
• Ben Alpert
• Silviu Postavaru
• Francesco Agnoletto
• Pavel Macek

Thanks again the designers who submitted entries!

How to vote?

Good question! You can click this link, share http://poll.fm/111u6 on Twitter or use the embedded poll widget below! Good luck, please vote (and do not cheat!)

Updated: Voting ends July 23, 2009, 11:59pm GMT-3

Updated: Voting has officially ended

Please go here to read the results.

So, guess what? There are already 3 designers running for the pledgie prize collected for One-Click Installer new home!

Check those over there:

http://wiki.github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/website-contest

This is excellent news. Thank you guys for participating!

Deadline

I’m aiming to close submissions June 19, 2009. So if you have a design or idea, mock it up and add to the wiki page, point to a blog post or something and let the public know you’re participating!

UPDATE: Deadline extended until Monday, June 22, 2009 at 8pm Argentine Timezone (GMT-3)

Logo

As Pavel mentioned over the wiki page:

I like it, but I was not sure about the shape of ruby gem.

This is something weird since Ruby users are used to see Ruby logo with the shape of a diamond, which is incorrect.

Let me explain it better: the mineral ruby can be cut in diamond shape, but is really uncommon.

More common shapes are facetted balls or emerald cuts. Take a look here for more examples.

Almost every package, tool or library associated with Ruby tends to use a diamond cut ruby as logo.

When analyzed this detail with Rodolfo Budeguer from Estudio Domo, we found that sticking to that shape would not only fall into the repetition (and be a copycat), but also move away from the goal of it.

If you pay close attention, will noticed that the emerald cut of RubyInstaller shows the 4 colors that are also present in… the Windows logo.

Why is that? Well, because is Ruby Installer for Windows

Voting and Deliverables

Once again, would like to mention public voting would define the selected design. No new design will be accepted after the deadline above mentioned. So make room to do the mockups soon!

Also, once we have the final votes for the designs. Selected designer should provide generated versions of mockups in CSS and HTML content, preferable in a public Git repository.

I’m so excited about this that I’m blogging at 4am!

Thanks again to Silviu, Francesco and Pavel to contribute and participate. Also other people that privately sent some feedback about RubyInstaller itself, not just the website