There will be five judges that will decide the three winning screenshots for this years contest. Winners will recieve bragging rights on irc and the forums.

Introducing The Judges

Markos Chandras (hwoarang) Gentoo Developer

Markos is a busy man, he helps out with Qt, treecleaners, sunrise, amd64, QA, and the kernel.

About:

Running openbox-git (3.5.0-rc1), pcmanfm-git, quassel, networkled, urxvt, minitube, fbpanel, conky. The decoration is native on openbox, and the window styling is qtcurve-qt4.

Specs:

• MSI-DKA790GX
• AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor
• 2X1GB Kingston HyperX
• 2x1TB Western Digital Black Caviar
• 8500GT

Noel Saliba (weirdedout)

Noel is a longtime Gentoo user and he gets to take care of Gentoo Servers as a System Administrator all over the world.

About:

• KDE 4.3.5
• krunner desktop search (cached by nepomuk)
• K3B desktop status
• System Monitor Plasmoid

Specs:

• Dell Inspiron 6400
• Intel Core Duo (T2300) - 1.66GHz
• VGA: Intel 945GM
• RAM: 2GB DDR2
• HDD: 320GB Western Digital SATA

Michael Weber (xmw)

Michael is currently being recruited to be a full Gentoo developer and in his spare time he has been busy on the Sunrise and Gnome overlays. He also has been known to help out wrangling some bugs.

About:

Nick: xmw

Real Name: Michael Weber

Software is Gentoo/Linux amd64 (just switched to) gnome profile. Essential parts like gentoo-sources, glibc, gcc, and end user apps like firefox, thunderbird, gnome is bleeding edge (gnome overlay and beyond), like gnome-shell-2.31.2, x11-wm/metacity 2.30.1, the rest is stable.

The backgrounds get switched on a regular basis, mostly own pictures taken with a Sony DSLR, like this cat called Luzi over here.

Specs:

• Asus M3N78 PRO
• AMD Phenom II X4 920
• 4x2GB Kingston
• HDD 250GB
• nVidia Corporation C77 [GeForce 8300]
• 1T raid-1 as data
• 300G raid-1 as home
• 2 1.5T ST31500341AS

Fernando V. Orocu (likewhoa)

Fernando A.K.A likewhoa has been using Gentoo Linux since 2004 and has been deploying Gentoo servers ever since with a passion for OSS and User collaboration. He is currently being recruited to become a full Gentoo developer and he was the builder for the Gentoo 10.1 LiveDVD. He is currently working on the latest version codenamed "solarpowered" or commonly refered to as 10.2.

About:

• User Name: likewhoa (Gentoo Forums)
• fvwm2
• Custom Gentoo Related Dynamic Menus

Specs:

• Hardware Spec: DFI NF4 Socket 939 Venus Mainboard
• Opteron 165 at 3150MHz
• Ram: 2GB 3-3-2-6 under H2O

David Abbott (dabbott)

David Abbott (dabbott) aka (comprookie2000) aka LinuxCrazy Podcasts, staff developer for the PR project and ebuild developer wantabe :).

About:

• Gentoo Forums Nick: comprookie2000
• Gentoo Nick: dabbott
• http://dev.gentoo.org/~dabbott/
• Real Name: David Abbott
• Hostname: Quad
• Running compiz-fusion with Gnome 2.30. Custom Window border and theme. Theme is a simple hack of clearlooks. Window border is Emerald theme Fogo with custom colors. Gnome-Noble Icons with Gentoo logo Start-here. Wallpaper is /usr/share/pixmaps/1280x1024/gentoo-cow-alpha Resized and added the background color with the gimp.

Specs:

• Intel BOXDP43TF LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX Intel Motherboard
• Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 2.33GHz
• CORSAIR XMS2 DHX 8GB (4 x 2GB) (PC2 6400)
• GIGABYTE GV-N96TZL-1GI GeForce 9600
• Turtle Beach Santa Cruz (snd-cs46xx)
• Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS 300GB