Contest 04/2018: FRIENDSHIP

[Janina]

[Jetpack-guy]

That's mine in

And so is mine (the second one and latest).

[Janina]

Great! TOday is the last for submissions, so I hope some more will join until midnight.

[Janina]

Ready to vote?

http://www.sp-studio.de/contests/

Seems like more than a few of these could be disqualified....

[Janina]

Unfortunately, yes. I already had to delete some and at least the last three of them are a big concern. I am not sure how to make the topic clearer... When you submit the file it's even written next to the submit button.

[Janina]

1) 10 points: Bunsen and Beaker of the Muppets (by Art Vandelay)
2) 8 points: Friendship: i couldn't stand to be apart of my friend... I ate him so will be forever together! (by Erika Dunkelheit)
2) 8 points: True friendship never really dies (by Jareen2)
2) 8 points: Animals are true friends (by Miron)
5) 7 points: Steve and Brian Friendship - from Family Guy (by AXON199)







Congratulations! Art Vandelay wins a free wish with this creative picture. The next update which is planned to go online this month will include the contest wishes of the past months.

Cool!

As for a "wish", with the recent popularity of Black Panther, how about a Black Panther mask?

[Janina]

Your wish is granted

[Janina]

Bad news...

There will be no contest this month. The reason is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which becomes enforceable on 25 May 2018 for all websites hostet in European countries.

Because of my daily job as a web developer I have to work a lot right now to make all my customers' websites fit for the GDPR. It's a pain in the ass... much more than I expected it to be. Data protection is important, but the regulations become a very difficult topic for small businesses. And there are many points which are still unclear - for example if the use of Google fonts is against the law now.

But the amount of work I have to deal with because of the GDPR is not the reason why there is no contest. The reason is it applies to sp-studio.de as well. When I run the contests I collect user data because people send me their e-mail addresses and names. At the very least I need a SSL protection for my server. I cannot do this right now, because it needs some preperation, and I don't want to start a contest which I have to cancel on May 25. So unfortunately there won't be a contest this month, but I hope to bring them back for June.

By the way... the forum might be a problem as well. I might have to take it offline on May 25th if I cannot make it GDPR save in time. But I hope this won't be neccessary and if it happens it will be back.

Well, lets have a rest then.

I hope the forum will survive to the new normatives stuff.

[Janina]

It looks worse the more I read about it...