So there is about 6 weeks to go to enter the Microsoft National {Community} Demo Competition. This is an opportunity to strut your funky stuff with Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008. To sweeten the deal there is some very serious prizeware attached:
State Finalists 1 x 1gb USB Flash Drive 1 x Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 1 x Polo T-Shirt State Winners 1 x Ticket to TechEd 08 in Sydney, including airfares (from the winners nearest capital city to Sydney) and accommodation 1 x Visual Studio Professional with MSDN professional 2008 OR TechNet direct subscription 1 x Media Centre Extender with DVD National Winner grand Prize 1 x Ticket to U.S. Tech.Ed 2009, including airfares and accommodation 1 x Visual Studio Team Suite 2008 plus MSDN Premium subscription 1 x Media Centre PC
State Finalists 1 x 1gb USB Flash Drive 1 x Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 1 x Polo T-Shirt
State Winners 1 x Ticket to TechEd 08 in Sydney, including airfares (from the winners nearest capital city to Sydney) and accommodation 1 x Visual Studio Professional with MSDN professional 2008 OR TechNet direct subscription 1 x Media Centre Extender with DVD
National Winner grand Prize 1 x Ticket to U.S. Tech.Ed 2009, including airfares and accommodation 1 x Visual Studio Team Suite 2008 plus MSDN Premium subscription 1 x Media Centre PC
So, the National Winner is going to clean up all of that – awesome! Personally, I am hoping to see the VSTO demos come home for the win, or maybe something that also shows off the new Visual Studio 2008 Extensions to WSS.
Some other demo ideas that I would love to see:
Great post Al - looking forward to seeing the Office Community (Sharepoint UG's??) strut their stuff and throw the gauntlet to the rest of the industry :)
Rog42