It was TechEd 2006 (in November) at Bangalore and one of my colleagues and me were roaming around the venue looking at everything that was on display with awe. It was my first TechED. I was trying hard to figure out what it meant and the sea of information seemed very hard to comprehend and sometimes confusing. Lost, I settled down in one of the cosy couches in the SDN Clubhouse when a "man-with-a-microphone" appeared out of the thin air in front of us and proceeded to host some sort of a Quiz. He also made references of something called "The SDN" or "The SAP Developer Network" and I began to wonder whether it might be a long lost cousin of the "Local Area Networ (LAN)" or the WAN. The Quiz started off. Till then I was nearly sure it would be a purely technical quiz and me, being only a year in SAP by that time, was determined not to participate and make a fool of myself and just watch ! But but, how wrong i was ! The Quiz was simple and apart from extremely easy tech, it had numerous questions on SDN itself. Quite convinced that my earlier notion about SDN was not correct and it was not even the farthest cousin or remotely related to any physical network, my curiosity grew further. My colleague who was as much in awe as I was made a bold decision to participate and won himself an SDN USB Splitter :). Damn cool ! The Quiz ended and I was pretty sure now that SDN is actually the Elder Sibling of help.sap.com and the "man-with-a-microphone", whose name I had come to know as some Craig Cmehil by then, looked quite approachable (and funny) and i decided to open my bag of woes to him and asked him if he would happen to know as to where exactly could I find help documentation/tutorials of a particular something (i don't remember what it was now !). He looked at me and said "Check SDN ?". Pretty sure that the extensive googlish search I had performed was near perfect i shot back, "I have searched everywhere, would it be there where you say it might be ? SDN ?". He replied : "Well if it's not, why not try to contribute what you already know about "that something" since you are already working on it !" He told me to look up sdn.sap.com and look around and I promised that if I can, given the limited knowledge of SAP Technology I had, I will surely contribute ! I returned home a confused soul with only a URL in my head ! It has been somewhere near 5 months so far and the journey has been amazing in a word. I've tried and contributed whatever little I could, learnt a lot and even tried to make people around me aware of this beautiful place on web. There are a lot of people I have got to know and like on SDN, Craig, Gali, Blag, Eddy are but just a few of them. A Big Thanks You to Craig for inroducing me to SDN ! Now I know what I was missing in life 🙂 as the first thing I do every morning as I unlock my PC is fire it up on my browser. For now, i am off to show off the shiny SDN Ubergeek 1GB USB Wristband 
that I won in Eddy's Pimp up the jam: and the winner is contest to my teammates 🙂
that I won in Eddy's Pimp up the jam: and the winner is contest to my teammates 🙂
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