Why show your stuff to a few friends, when you can Show Off to thousands of your
peers at PDC2008?
Show Off is returning to PDC2008 to give you another chance to... well... show off! Whether
you coded it, soldered it, hacked it or sculpted it, if it’s cool and involves technology
then we want to see it.
Monday, October 27
8:30pm–10:00pm
403AB
If you’ve ever wanted to put the smack down on lesser mortals, flex your brain,
and get everyone to gloat at your—deservedly—awe-inspiring work, this is what might
be called a prime opportunity. We want you to inspire others with your unique software,
tip, tool, technique, animation, or anything else we can’t think of. All you need
to do is create a short, 3-minute-or-less video demonstrating what you want to show
off.
If you don't have anything to submit, we still want all PDC2008 attendees to cheer
on their peers in recognition of their fantastic work. This is all about excitement,
and we’ll have theater-style "food" to keep the energy going. And there will be
prizes. Oh yes...fabulous prizes await.
We want to keep it simple, so here are the guidelines:
- You and/or your team put together a single WMV file that shows off something cool
about your application, animation, tool, technique (or whatever).
- This is a Microsoft hosted conference, so make sure that at least some of our technology
was used to create the stuff you’re showing off.
- Videos are limited to 3 minutes and should not include credits. We’ll add credits
to the beginning of each video.
- If you want to use a screen capture application like Camtasia Studio, HyperCam,
or Windows Media Encoder, go for it! We’ll be showing these on a big screen, so
please be sure to record at high quality.
- Be creative. Show something cool that would excite your peers.
- No crude language, nudity, or commercials.
- No entries that have been selected as prize winning entries in other contests.
- To see the winners from the last ShowOff contest visit MIX08 Show Off Winners.
All entries must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time (PT) on October
17, 2008.
If you’d like to submit a video for consideration, click the link at the bottom
of this post and send us an e-mail that includes all of the following information
(you might want to copy & paste this list to make it easier):
- Names of people who should receive credit
- Name of your organization (if any)
- Contact information (e-mail, URL, etc.)
- Title of the video
- The developer and designer tools you used (both Microsoft and non-Microsoft)
- Short 2-3 sentence description of your video
- Information about how we can retrieve your video (URL, FTP, etc.)
We look forward to your submission and hope to see everyone at the Show Off event!
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