"Why demo your cool application to a few friends, when you can Show Off to thousands of your peers at the PDC?"
At this year’s PDC, we’ll be hosting our first-ever Show Off event. What the heck is Show Off, you ask? Well, Show Off is an evening event held at the PDC where you can show off your application, tip, tool, technique, animation, or anything cool that can help or inspire other developers. We’re asking you to submit a short video demonstrating what you want to show off. You can read this blog post for more information.
Even if you don’t have anything to submit, we’d love all PDC attendees to come to the Show Off event to cheer on their fellow developers in recognition of their great work. This event is by developers for developers, or to use the correct marketing lingo: Developer Powered!
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, tool, technique (or whatever).
- This is a Microsoft developer conference, so make sure that it uses at least some of our technology.
- Videos are limited to 5 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.
- To submit your video, host the WMV file in a private, but internet-reachable location (FTP/HTTP/etc.). Then, when you fill out the submission e-mail, let us know where it is, and we'll collect it for consideration. Do not post its location publicly.
- We reserve the right to pick which videos we show at the PDC for completely arbitrary and geeky reasons.
- After the Show Off event at the PDC, you give us permission to post your video on Channel 9 for the whole world to see.
- All submissions must be made no later than Thursday, September 8th, at 5:00pm Pacific time.
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