World 184 : SAP 193

If    SAP TechEd were next    week, we would already know the Top    Contributors and what prizes    they got. Let’s pretend we reached the deadline: 12:00 a.m. Pacific Standard    Time Saturday, 25 September 2004 already.

  First of all, everyone over 500 points would    get a $20 Amazon gift certificate. Right now that is everyone rank 7 and    above. Sorry Gregor Wolf, close but no cigar. Similarly Stefan Klensch is close    to the additional $30 gift certificate once he crosses the 1000 point mark.

Second, the first 10 SAP employees as well as the top 10 SDN Members not working    for little blue will get the mini    iPod, MP4    Video Jukebox, HP    Wifi iPAQ/Phone combination or MP3 memory stick combination shown to the    left. In good old SAP fashion, there is no direct link to this item on the    SAP Shop, or I couldn’t find    it. Probably so you’ll search some more and stumble over other things that you    would like to buy too.

The minimum points you currently need to win one of our cool    geeky prizes are: As an SAP Employee: 193. Rest of the SDN world: 184. It    is funny that it is so close. I predict, that by the end of this competition    it will be reversed.

If you look, you will realize that Jan Wentzel with 193 is SAP contributor    number 11 and not 10. The reason is that smack in the middle of the SAP folks,    there is yours truly. Although I would love to have any of these gadgets, as    a member of the SDN Team we take ourselves out of the competition. Just for    sport I still like to be somewhere in the top 10 😉

Think about it, not even 200 points and you get a nice prize. That’s just two    articles or code samples or five easy Weblogs. You may want to check the /community [original link is broken] forum. If you find a request there that you can fulfill,    double points for your article or code sample. That alone would lift you into    the prize category. Good luck!