<a href="http://www.no-spec.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.no-spec.com/</a><p>EDIT: Actually, I feel a bit bad for posting this - still, I do believe that spec-work isn't good for designers. Competitions aren't necessarily the most productive way to go about creating a new web design for an open source project.
I felt like helping out, so here's my entry: <a href="http://karrisaarinen.com/rubyc/" rel="nofollow">http://karrisaarinen.com/rubyc/</a><p>Tried to bring the minimalistic Japanese feel to it, like Ruby is.<p>(The signature on the upper corner is only for the heroku preview. I wanted to sign it for the competition, but didn't want to write my name anywhere on the site)
Why not just buy a nice theme on <a href="http://themeforest.net" rel="nofollow">http://themeforest.net</a> or any of the other template websites and modify it slightly?
The place you'll want to fork to get to work: <a href="https://github.com/tenderlove/rubycommitters.org" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tenderlove/rubycommitters.org</a><p>I am constantly blown away by how overly complicated rails is for getting a simple site set up. It almost seems like this site would be better as just plain html (or a simple sinatra site...). But oh well, I digress, sounds like fun.
<a href="http://www.builditwith.me" rel="nofollow">http://www.builditwith.me</a><p>A web site that connects design & development entrepreneurs. It exists to make creating apps easier by connecting you with like-minded designers & developers with the same goal: create cool & useful apps. Build It With Me will help you bootstrap your ideas into actual apps.<p><a href="http://collabfinder.com" rel="nofollow">http://collabfinder.com</a> (this site is not responding as I enter this)<p>Why'd we make it? Because we want to make it easier for likeminded developers and designers to meet and collaborate with one another. In other words, we want to help folks actually build the lovely projects they're thinking about.