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title: "PDC 2005 – What shall I do?"
description: "<p><span style="font-family: arial">I just read in my </span><a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/"><span style="font-family: arial">Roy’s blog</span></a> <span style="font-family: arial">about the contest </span><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com"><span style="font-family: arial">Channel9</span></a> <span style="font-family: arial">is holding in which you can get free lodging, enterance and $1000 travel fair for the PDC 2005.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial">You can do that by either </span><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=74816"><span style="font-family: arial">blogging your way in</span></a> <span style="font-family: arial">or </span><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=74805"><span style="font-family: arial">code your way in</span></a> <span style="font-family: arial">using Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and the Shareware Starter Kit.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial">Now I’m in a bit of a dilema. </span></p>"
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last_updated: "2017-06-02"
date: 2005-06-21
tags: [Microsoft, MS, PDC, PDC2005]
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<span style="font-family: arial">I just read in my </span>[<span style="font-family: arial">Roy&#8217;s blog</span>][1] <span style="font-family: arial">about the contest </span>[<span style="font-family: arial">Channel9</span>][2] <span style="font-family: arial">is holding in which you can get free lodging, enterance and $1000 travel fair for the PDC 2005.</span>
  
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<span style="font-family: arial">You can do that by either </span>[<span style="font-family: arial">blogging your way in</span>][3] <span style="font-family: arial">or </span>[<span style="font-family: arial">code your way in</span>][4] <span style="font-family: arial">using Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and the Shareware Starter Kit.</span>
  
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<span style="font-family: arial">Now I&#8217;m in a bit of a dilema. </span>
  
<span style="font-family: arial">a) I doubt that my current employer will pay for this.</span>
  
<span style="font-family: arial">b) If I&#8217;ll go privately it will cost a lot of money and I will have to use my vacation days (which essentially can also be translated into money) which I want to utilize to better things like go to Thailand ;-).</span>
  
<span style="font-family: arial">c) I can try and blog myself in, but I doubt I will be able to compete with anyone.</span>
  
<span style="font-family: arial">d) I can write something up with the Shareware starter kit.</span>
  
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<span style="font-family: arial">I guess option &#8220;D&#8221; is the most viable one for me but now I need a good idea, plus I need this to be a shareware (even though I don&#8217;t actually want to do this to get money).</span>
  
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<span style="font-family: arial">I can understand that the reason behind this competition is to get some more software written in Visual Studio 2005 and to promote the Shareware Starter Kit idea (plus its supporting 3rd party hosts).</span>
  
<span style="font-family: arial">Maybe they should change it into a </span>[<span style="font-family: arial">DonateWare</span>][5] <span style="font-family: arial">(of the good kind) competition.</span>
  
<span style="font-family: arial">All entries MUST have their payments donated to some organization that can receive donations using PayPal or something like that.</span>
  
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<span style="font-family: Arial">Of well&#8230; If you have any interesting ideas, be sure to Email them to me :-)</span>
  
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 [1]: http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/
 [2]: http://channel9.msdn.com
 [3]: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=74816
 [4]: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=74805
 [5]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donateware