Thanks to everyone who submitted an entry to the pumpkin contest!

Matt Lind took us up on our suggestion of a werewolf, and we’re awarding him the $50 for it. He even carved a Fedora logo into the werewolf’s face and put a Red Hat fedora on top.

Red Hatter Brian Kearney wasn’t eligible for the prize, but his family carved up this great trio: Shadowman, a traditional jack-o-lantern, and his son’s Harry Potter inspired “zap” pumpkin.

Finally, we really enjoyed this digital art submission from Mola Pahnadayan.

Thanks again, everyone!

Been thinking about entering our pumpkin contest but just don’t have any ideas? Red Hat Magazine writer Nicu Buculei has one for you.

Where I live people do not celebrate Halloween, don’t do trick-or-treating, and do not carve pumpkins for this day.

I have no experience of carving pumpkins so I don’t want to enter the contest, but I have a picture to share: I made a cartoon character for my blog and imagined some scenarios around it, one of them being inspired by your contest.

The tradition is to have a name (not widely used, more for internal use) for each Fedora release, and the upcoming Fedora 8 (due in about 2 weeks) received, as a result of a community vote, the name “Werewolf.”

The deadline is Monday, October 29, so you still have a few days to carve. Send us your pumpkins–there’s $50 at stake here!