And the winner of the BillG - signed Guitar Hero guitar at ODC 2008 is...
As I mentioned here, we held a raffle earlier today to give away a Guitar Hero III guitar, complete with Bill Gates' autograph, at the Office Developers Conference 2008. The guitar played a part in the FedEx demo during BillG's keynote kicking off the conference. (More on that, including pics and video, here, and Jon Box's take on it here).
The conference was just wrapping up, and at noon PST today we gathered folks together in the "interactive theater" in the exhibit hall (ok, we all crowded into a small room with curtains for walls) and drew the lucky winner from a FedEx box absolutely full of entries. And... the winner is...
Clayton James!
Clayton was kind enough to stick around and answer a few questions that I know are at the top of everyone's mind!
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Question: What do you do?
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Answer: I'm a Microsoft Certified Trainer and Consultant with
Data Cogs in Brisbane, Australia - a .NET and SharePoint consultancy.
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Question: Do you have an XBOX 360?
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Question: Are you going to get one?
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Question: Most importantly, are you going to actually play Guitar Hero with the BillG-signed guitar?
We chatted a bit more, and before Clayton headed out he said he'd send a video playing with the guitar, and we'd see about getting it up on Silverlight streaming. 
We'll get a pic up of Clayton receiving his Guitar "soon".
Finally, much sincere thanks to FedEx for helping Clayton get his new guitar shipped back home to Brisbane at no charge! Very classy!
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About john.mullinax
John Mullinax is a Platform Strategy Advisor with Microsoft's DPE Team. Before joining Microsoft in 2006, John held a vartiety of positions at Ford Motor Company, most recently leading IT services strategy to support explosive business growth in China. Other positions included: Enterprise Architect, Application Portfolio Management, Technology Governance, and Product Manager. Prior to joining Ford, John earned his MBA at the University of Washington. Before that, he was Director of Elections for Douglas County, Washington, where he conducted the first Federal mail-ballot election in the USA. Subsequently, he joined the Secretary of State's office as a consultant working with county election officials in Washington state to improve operational effectiveness, integrity, and security (aka, to prevent the kind of debacle we saw in Florida in 2000).
