On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Ish Sookun <ish_at_hacklog.in> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Did anyone from this mailing list attend the WebCup 2015 as a participant or
> out of curiosity? I'd like to know if there was anything mentioned regarding
> the use of off-the-shelf templates for this competition.
>
> I had a look at http://ynot-team.tk. The final work is a messed up version
> of Aeon[1] Joomla Template.
>
> Then I had a look at Blue Dragons[2] and instantly thought they could be a
> team of young students. Indeed, they appear to be from Université des
> Mascareignes. Okay, let's admit that their website look is amateur,
> nostalgic, contains Flash :P etc etc etc. But this is what is taught to
> students at university level and it is what they applied when asked to
> design a website.
>
> On the other hand, Ynot Team might have spent $48 to buy a Joomla theme and
> spend 24 hours of human time to mess it up.
>
> My comments might appear harsh but let us not forget that every year it is
> the same story about WordPress, Joomla templating.
>
> Does it take to be a genius to produce 5 beautiful HTML pages with some nice
> JavaScript in 24 hours rather than copying others work and editing texts?
>
> Ynot team has replaced the copyright of Dan Partac[3] by their own. I doubt
> if they contacted the latter to have his permission. Does WebCup 2015 know
> if this copyright infringement?
>
Stripping a license from a an existing piece of work is definitely a
bad thing, and this does not help to improve the country's image.
> I visited maurice.webcup.fr and it redirected to
> http://www.webcup.fr/wp-signup.php?new=mauice.webcup.fr. See the typo. The
> page is very slow. Then I clicked on "contact" to get an email address,
> waited more than 2 minutes in front of a blank page and got bored.
>
> [1] http://www.pcadviser.ro/themeforest/?theme=aeon
> [2] http://bluedragon.maurice.2015.webcup.fr/test1/test1.php
> [3] http://themeforest.net/user/dnp_theme?ref=dnp_theme
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Ish Sookun
>
> - Geek by birth, Linux by choice.
> - I blog at HACKLOG.in.
>
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Received on Sun May 24 2015 - 14:08:22 PST