SAP Community Challenge (#SAPCC)
With less than 1 month until the ASUG Annual Conference/SAPPHIRENOW, I would like to challenge you to participate in a unique fundraiser to benefit Doctors Without Borders.
It is well known that over the course of the conference, attendees will be logging some serious footsteps. Some may even organize into morning runs – before the heat of the day can beat on us. Practically everyone has a smartphone that can track your distance or some other device like a Fitbit that will also track it.
If you will be doing enough running or walking, and prefer to track something else, how about how many coffees you consume, or how many evaluation cards you fill out after a session? Or how many SAPMentors you can get photographed with?
You decide – anything that is fun, OK?
So you sign up below (sign in into SCN, then press edit on this page and add yourself in the table below). Then, using whatever means you like (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, letters to mom and dad) find people to sponsor you. You can direct them to this Fundraising Page.
During the conference, post your mileage or coffees-consumed (whatever your challenge is) periodically. If you use Twitter, use the hashtag #sapcc.
By the end of the conference, I bet we will have done something we can all be happy about – well, multiple things actually! We will have learned about SAP via the ASUG and SAPPHIRE sessions, kept fit if we elected to do a ‘physical challenge’ AND raised money for Doctors Without Borders.
Most sponsors already know this, but even if the particular ‘challenge’ is not met (ie: Clint can not do 1500 burpees) the funds should still go out to MSF.
There are a few challenges about RT’ing something; we appreciate your support and hope that any further participants will engage in more active challenges.
| Participant Name | Challenge | Goals | Sponsor1 | Total result | |
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| Susan Keohan | Hoofing it | 10K steps/day |
Sally Rice Marilyn Pratt Cathy Kenlin |
$100.00 $100.00 $ 10.00 £10/day you make 10k! $50 $20 $20 $50 $10.00 $500 |
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| Björn Goerke | Life’s a Marathon |
Run 42.195 km (26 miles 385 yards) 2013/05/13: Day 1 done: 21.14 km completed. 2013/05/14: Day 2 done: +11.17 km –> 31.31 km in total completed 2013/05/15: Day 3 done: +11km –> 42.2 km in total completed Mission Accomplished! 🙂 Thanks Bala and Joshua for the support!! 🙂 |
€50 per km $25 $25 |
2150€ $25 $25 |
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| Tammy Powlas | Witness the Fitness | 3 miles a day |
Tammy Powlas Cathy Kenlin |
$50.00 $50.00 $25 $20 $10 |
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| Greg Myers | Run Zoomier with SAP | Run 15 miles (24 km) |
@gpmyers Cathy Kenlin |
$3 per mile $25 $10 |
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| Greg Myers & Eric Vallo | Record a podcast | We’ll have to do at least one. | James Oswald | $20.00 | |
| Clint Vosloo | Pythons smuggled unto show floor | (He’ll be hiding them in his sleeves). | James Oswald | $5/python (2 max) | |
| Vishal Sikka | First Unicorn Horn Lost | In honor of Karin Tillotson | James Oswald | $10.00 | |
| Executive Squad | Innovation Kittens | Instances of the word “awesome” or “amazing” or derivations of “game-changer” or “game-changing” used during the main keynotes – keep track! | Mark Yolton | $5.00 per | $50 |
| All SCN Members | SapphireNow blogs | Number of Sapphire Now (tag them!) blogs posted on SCN during the week of May 12-17 – can include video, audio, text, photos of session content and/or personal experiences | Mark Yolton | $1 per |
$200 |
| All 2013 ASUG/SAPPHIRENOW attendee’s | Ka-Ching | For every new person I meet that mis-pronounces my name, I will donate $5 (up to $100 total) | Karin Tillotson | $5 per | $100 |
| Clint Vosloo | Jet Lag Challenge | I will donate $ 2’s for every hour I spend travelling to SapphireNow ( estimate at 24 hours). Any attendee who has a flight time greater than 24 hours and connects with me at SapphireNow then I will donate an extra $ 2 per hour for the greatest travel time that I hear about. |
$2 per hour travelled $10 |
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| Clint Vosloo | Death by Burpees |
For those who know me, then you know I love CrossFit. This is a challenge that will match your $s directly to my level of suffering. For every $ 1 donated before the end of #SapphireNow and linked to this challenge then I will do 5 burpees. If I get up to $ 500 that could mean 2500 burpees which would take me about 3 hours. Burpees will be performed in the Hotel Gym prior to the final concert and filmed as evidence ( well thats if we dont run out of tape). So… please donate to this to make sure I sweat out all the beers from the week leading up to the challenge ! . FYI – Burpee = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX60BcsO_wE |
5 burpees per $ 1 dollar donated $100 (500 burpees) $20 $30 |
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| Avery Horzewski | Retweets of @SAPanalytics | I will donate 50 cents for every retweet of @SAPAnalytics at #SAPPHIRENOW up to $300. | Avery Horzewski | 50 cents per retweet of @SAPanalytics up to $300 | |
| DataXstream LLC | Retweets of @DataXstream | Inspired by Avery, we will donate 50 cents for every retweet of @DataXstream at #SAPPHIRENOW up to $300. |
Team DataXstream |
50 cents per retweet of @DataXstream up to $300 | |
| Anne Hardy | Run Anne run… |
I will run my first marathon on June 16th 2013. Besides the fact that I need to eat miles and miles in order to get ready, I love to run, especially in beautiful places, parks, mountain trails, etc. Not sure I will find parks and trails in Orlando but I commit to run 20 miles, even with eyes closed… 8.14 miles on 5/14 5.45 miles on 5/15 6.99 miles on 5/16 = 20.58 miles |
A. Hardy V. Hardy |
$200 $200 |
$400 |
I am hoping to have multiple sponsors, so I will probably have multiple lines. I hope you will join me in this Community Challenge.
Together we can be some of the ‘helpers’ that the world so desperately needs.
Great initiative!
Hope you can tie your crowd-rise to this and make this an official channel for us as a community to support MSF.
I'll be cheering from the sidelines. Not attending Sapphire this year.
I am so bummed you are not coming this year, Marilyn. We will miss you.
Agree with you, Tammy. But Marilyn is always with us in spirit 🙂 (right???)
Charity is fun!
I hope you all realize I just prepaid, so Sue, SAP (on behalf of Karin), Eric, Greg, and Clint all have some work to do.
Got a great chuckle over Mark Yolton's Executive Squad challenge. It would be even more "expensive" to add the word "innovation" (as a stakeholder complained to me yesterday) 😉 . Or even "empathy" and "Design Thinking" although I am championing all those words and will continue to make sure they resound.
Another sponsor for Susan Keohan - you've got a lot of walking to do, Sue 🙂
Susan Keohan : i hope you don't mind but I updated the SCN graphic at the top of this blog to reflect the current SAP logo...
No worries Mark. I tried to change the logo on the MSF and am pretty sure it worked.
http://events.doctorswithoutborders.org/participant/sapcommunityOw, I think Joshua Fletcher is just plain mean (who would think - he *seems* like a good guy). But I know Clint Vosloo is up for the challenge!
And what does Eric Vallo bringing beer have to do with this? I would think it's really do these 'burpees' on a stomach full of beer.
Susan:
wonderful idea! Thanks for raising money for such a great cause.
Best, miss you,
Natascha
Thanks Natascha.
Hope to see you soon?
Sue
Can @SAPanalytics get a Vine of Clint's Death by Burpees? I see a lot of viral potential in that. 😉
I believe Eric Vallo will have the video rights - as he is the medic/beer provider. You can work something out with him?
So, Eric Vallo what do you say? Imagine the possibilities.
I didn't get an accurate count of the uses of "awesome," "amazing," or "game-changing," but I sense it was a smaller number than expected. So, I'll be generous and assume around 10 were uttered by our executive corps during the keynotes, for a total donation of $50 at $5 a pop.
I counted 61 blogs posted during the week of SAPPHIRE NOW, at $1 a pop. I also note that 23 blogs were tagged with "SAPPHIRENOW," and assuming no overlap, that's another $23. Let's round up to 100. And let's double that, just for good measure.
My donation to Doctors Without Borders will be $250.
Thank you, Susan Keohan for leading this inventive and fun effort for a good cause. Thank you to all the others who participated through pain (Clint Vosloo ) and/or cash (wow! Bjoern Goerke ). If you missed your chance and want to make a donation large or small, please go right ahead and do so, and record it here so Sue and others can see the collective positive impact of our community.
Thanks to all who pay-it-forward!
Wow, Mark, thank you!
For what it's worth, we are now up to $6215.00 - we are so close to $10K I can almost taste it!
I couldn't be bothered with £/$ exchange rates so just made it a nice round $50. Well done Susan Keohan 🙂
Steve.