Announcement: MP 2 skinning competition

The MediaPortal 2 core code is getting more and more stable and we are about to move our development power to the MediaPortal 2 standard plugins.

In a few weeks, we will start a MediaPortal 2 skinning contest where we will publish an exercise to create a skin which follows certain requirements. Everyone can participate. The best ideas will be used in MediaPortal 2 - maybe you can obtain a place in our skinning team? The main excercise will be to create a complete skin for the existing screens but you can also impress us by presenting good new UI concepts and even better skinning team leadership concepts for our project.

Our MP 2 SkinEngine understands MPF, which is very similar to WPF but especially designed for MediaPortal 2. So if you know WPF, it should be easy for you to work into MPF. But even if you don't understand anything from coding and skinning: If you are a good team leader or if you are able to do the conceptual work, you can also help. As preparation, interested people, who want to take part in a team, should try to form their team before the beginning of the contest. You can also try to form a team in the attached forum thread.

To get started with MediaPortal 2 skinning, please look through our Wiki in the MediaPortal 2 part. It explains how to connect to our SVN server, how to compile the system and how to write plugins and skins. It will be a bit work to get started, but don't despair, the potential and flexibility of the MediaPortal 2 system and especially of the SkinEngine is amazing.

We'll post another news entry here before the competition starts.

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