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Update: The contest is closed. Winners have been announced over here. Thanks for playing.

Who wants an MSDN 2010 subscription?

Due to my over-involvement in the development and database community, Microsoft gave me three MSDN licenses to give away. I’m not sure who I should give them to, so I thought about how to give them away. I originally posted this on Twitter and I got a bajillion responses in a few minutes. I figured that I would normally be incredibly lazy and give it to the first three people. Then I had more thoughts. Then Arnie Rowland messaged me telling me about his great idea: giving them to the unemployed or under-employed.

I think this is a great idea. I don’t want to rip off Arnie’s idea, so I’m not going to.

I have three of these things to give away, so why not mix it up a bit and go in three directions. I’m going to give away the three MSDN subscriptions to the people who email the best description of how they will use the MSDN subscription to help them

1. further their own career/education
2. work on an open source project
3. help them prepare for a new job

It’s all secret this way. Nobody has to know about how much you hate your boss or you want to make an open source porno bit torrent search engine or program some kind of robotic articulated llama comb. Doesn’t matter. Just send your email to 2010msdncontest@facility9.com

Your email MUST contain the phrase “i want some msdn” in the subject line. Otherwise, I’m trashing it. End of story.

Entries are due by Friday, July 9. I’ll judge them on July 10 while I’m recovering from getting a tattoo and then I’ll make the announcement on Monday, July 12.