Add-in contest ends this month!

13 days to go. I suggest you start sending in your add-ins. If the slow submission rate keeps up I would have no choice but to postpone or cancel the contest altogether. FYI. As of now less than 10 submission received. The contest won't open with less than 20.
Published Thursday, June 17, 2004 2:28 PM by RoyOsherove
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Thursday, June 17, 2004 7:59 AM by Roland Weigelt

# re: Add-in contest ends this month!

I'm still working on my entry... it will be ready in time, I promise ;-)
This contest has been a great motivator for me, it would be a pity if it was cancelled.

Roland
Thursday, June 17, 2004 8:44 AM by Darrell

# re: Add-in contest ends this month!

Why cancel it if people haven't submitted well before the end date? The end date is the end date, submission rates don't mean anything. At the end of the very last day (what time zone are you using?) if there are enough entries, then there are enough entries.
Thursday, June 17, 2004 10:25 AM by Sergey Mishkovskiy

# re: Add-in contest ends this month!

My only reason for not submitting add-ins is that I only distribute the binaries and not the source code. If you were to allow binary-only submissions, I'd post my add-ins asap. Thanks.
Thursday, June 17, 2004 2:22 PM by jledgard@microsoft.com (josh ledgard)

# RE: Add-in contest ends this month!

Sounds a little harsh to cancel at this point with less than 20. I might hype up the great odds of winning to get people submitting in the home stretch.
josh
Thursday, June 17, 2004 3:04 PM by Roy Osherove

# re: Add-in contest ends this month!

Ok. I'll rephrase - I'll cancel if at the ending date we won't have anough. that's what I meant. Sorry for not explaining myself correctly...
Thursday, June 17, 2004 3:05 PM by josh ledgard

# re: Add-in contest ends this month!

No, I would just pick the best three of 10 at that point. Maybe cancel the additional entries if that means everyone would win.
Monday, June 21, 2004 9:04 AM by Marc Cramer

# re: Add-in contest ends this month!

Why would you cancel...

You had posted the contest and never before did I see anything about a certain number of entries being needed...so why now all of a sudden is there a minimum entry number required?

I submitted mine in the hopes I would win but more so for the chance to see everybody elses submission so I could see what they considered as useful in the IDE and maybe use and also to get mine out there for people to use if they felt it was helpful.

Just my two cents...

Marc Cramer
cramer236@comcast.net
Monday, June 21, 2004 2:54 PM by Roy Osherove

# re: Add-in contest ends this month!

Marc: I'll still post everything. It just seems silly to hand out such a great bunch of prizes to something so little bunch of folks seem to care about.
than again I think we'll have enough people entering. no rule is set in stone.
this is a community thing and as such I don't want anyone to feel cheated.
Tuesday, June 22, 2004 9:01 AM by Marc Cramer

# re: Add-in contest ends this month!

Hello...

Glad to hear everything will be posted.

My line of thinking is you should give out the prizes...after all it is/was a contest. The more who enter the harder to win and vice versa.

Also I personally wouldn't feel cheated but rather disappointed in the way the contest was handled.

Based on my experience with my fellow co-workers writing add-ins is not something any of them care about, use or know how to write. As such I think your target audience for this contest is more limited then if it was open to normal development items. This in turn results in a smaller number of entries then you may have been anticipating.

Just my thoughts on all of this

Thank you for responding to the messages I leave. It's good to know that you are reading them.

Marc Cramer
cramer236@comcast.net
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