Jeanne Carboni

August 23, 2013 3 minute read

Join the Celebration! – #SCNis10

In Chip Rodgers’ recent blog, “10 Year Anniversary for #SCN! (#SCNis10)”, he highlights the 10^th year anniversary of SAP Community Network, and some of the activities that will take place throughout the rest of 2013 to celebrate. Now that the plans are refined, we’re sharing the specifics so that you won’t miss out on the fun!

Each week, leading up to a big celebration at SAP TechEd Las Vegas, there are activities planned for the Community, by its members, for its members. Here are the highlights:

Walk Down Memory Lane – Milestone Posts

Longtime members are sharing their experiences over the years in milestone video blogs that will be posted both in SCN and on the SAP Facebook timeline. Check out the 2003, 2004 , 2005 and 2006 milestone posts.

*Example milestones for SCN

#SCNis10 Missions

There are two missions that you can complete related to #SCNis10. Blog about your experiences with SCN and how it has influenced your career (and maybe your life) in the “SCN and Me” challenge. Contributors will receive this special badge, as well as an extra 5 points in addition to the usual 10 for a blog. But make these blogs good ones. We will be checking to insure that entries qualify as blogs. Including a video in the blog is a big plus. Winners of the best blogs will be highlighted at SAP TechEd Las Vegas.

The second mission is the “Real Founder of SCN” poll, where you can vote for your favorite founder of SCN. Now we all know that Shai Agassi was probably inarguably the true founder back in 2003. But just for fun, we’ve asked some of the key players to tell us why they should be known as the original founder. Watch the interesting video submissions from Shay Barry, Craig Cmehil, Mark Finnern, Etay Gafni, Marilyn Pratt, and Jeff Word, and vote for your favorite. You will receive this badge and 1 point for voicing your opinion. The “founder” with the most votes will be announced at SAP TechEd Las Vegas.

SAP TechEd Celebrations

We plan to have a physical representation of SCN, past, present and future, in the clubhouse at TechEd this year. If you attend, this will be a “must see”, with rolling videos of key milestones from the past and present. There will also be an area where you can make your mark about what SCN could be in the future.

Also, watch for party activities at key TechEd events like balloons, streamers, and maybe even birthday cake to commemorate this important milestone for the Community.

Thank you to those of you who have already contributed to the celebration, as well as those of you who are committed to participate in the near future. Here is the lineup of activities week by week:

Week Beginning	Celebrating Year	Planned Activities
July 29	2003	DJ Adams blogs about being the one of the first external bloggers. Ziv Carthy shares his memories of the inception of SCN in a video.
Aug 5	2004	Craig Cmehil reminisces about the beginnings of SCN and the many contributors who have made it special.
Aug 12	2005	Matthias Boehmert talks about his experience in establishing the platform and supporting SCN throughout the years. Jeff Word provides a video story of the people and history of SDN (SAP Developer Network). The “Real Founder of SCN” poll / mission launched. Voters get the first of two SCN is 10 badges. The real founder winner will be announced at SAP TechEd Las Vegas.
Aug 19	2006	Marilyn Pratt and Audrey Stevenson talk about the beginnings of Business Process Experts (BPX). The second of two missions for “SCN is 10” launches, providing you the opportunity to blog about your experiences with SCN as “SCN and Me”.
Aug 26	2007	Chip Rodgers shares a video blog of his experiences over the years with SCN.
Sep 2	2008	Jason Cao blogs about the experience of launching the Business Objects Community in 2008. Mark Finnern shares his experiences working on SCN.
Sep 9	Multiple	Nigel James and Darren Hague share the history of Inside Track Events. Scott Lawley talks about the launch of Career Center. Mark Yolton provides a video blog, sharing his experience and thoughts about SCN.
Sep 16	Multiple	Rui Noguiera shares his memories of the launch of “Code Exchange”. Thomas Jung reminisces about his years as a lead participant in SCN.
Sep 23	2011	I’ll be blogging about the milestone of reaching 100,000 contributors.
Sep 30	2012	Tim Clark posts about launching the Business Trends space. Matt Johnson gives his perspective on the new SCN platform launch.
Oct 7	2013	Laure Cetin shares her experience bringing gamification to SCN.
Oct 14	2013	Gali Kling Schneider talks about the milestone of social sign on in SCN.
Oct 21		Amir Blich shares his experiences over the years with SCN. SAP TechEd, Las Vegas
Nov 4		SAP TechEd, Amsterdam
Dec 9		SAP TechEd, Bangalore

17 Comments

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Marilyn Pratt

August 23, 2013 at 8:15 pm

Thanks for providing this easy reference guide to the celebration blogs.

I also particularly enjoyed reading the first new entries to the

“SCN and Me” challenge.

Looking forward to the upcoming publications and catching up with those already out there. Loved openning up Chip Rodgers ' link to

original SDN on the Wayback Machine from July of 2003. Awesome! (also see there is a reference to the welcome message to SDN from Shai Agassi although recording is no longer available).

Will check back to your blog to remind myself of upcoming posts.

Thanks for this quick guide.

Kumud Singh

August 24, 2013 at 10:26 am

Hi Jeanne,

I am already excited to attend the celebrations at TechEd Bangalore!

Regards,

Kumud

Former Member

August 24, 2013 at 4:51 pm

Hi Jeanne,

We all are excited and waiting to attend Teched in Bangalore.

Regards,

Hari Suseelan

Laure Cetin

August 26, 2013 at 4:14 am

Nice blog post Jeanne! And I like the subtle "to do" list in the table 😉
I am very proud of being part of such a vibrant, professional, serious - and also fun - community.

Happy birthday SCN 😘
Laure

Fred Verheul

August 30, 2013 at 1:08 pm

Hi Jeanne,

I'm just reading up on all the scnis10 blog posts but in somewhat reverse order. Now reading this blog post of yours the penny dropped!

It's a great initiative and a fine example of how gamification enables specific challenges and missions, which give the whole platform a boost!

I can't wait to join the celebration at sapteched_2013 Amsterdam!

Cheers, Fred

Jitendra Kansal

August 30, 2013 at 1:11 pm

cant miss.. looking forward to it.. 🙂

Ravi Grover

September 1, 2013 at 6:40 pm

Awesome.

Onkar Borkar

September 3, 2013 at 5:04 pm

SCN has been helpful in getting to know about SAP features, especially for people starting new into SAP. The new features of SCN makes it even more interesting to use!

Regards,

Onkar

Somnath Manna

September 3, 2013 at 8:00 pm

Jeanne,

I shall be happy to share on Dec 9 at TechEd Bangalore my first brush with SDN in later part of 2006 and attending my first ever SDN event - Community Day 2007 where I met Craig, Mark Finnern, Marilyn, Gali and Gregor Wolf. NOTE I mentioned SDN as it was known those days.

Regards,

Somnath

PS: We are planning to have SCNis10 celebration session at SIT Bangalore on Nov 17th

Marilyn Pratt

September 4, 2013 at 6:14 pm

Excellent. Can't wait for that one!!!!

Former Member

September 4, 2013 at 6:09 am

Really nice to read this Jeanne Carboni .

You put the awesome thoughts out here.

We really feels great to be part of SCN 😳 , which gives us awesome ways to share our thoughts & exchange our views.

Cheers..

Shrikant Naidu

Ganesh Sadula

September 5, 2013 at 5:10 am

Congratulation for 10th Anniversary of SCN Community .. Its my pleasure to be part of SAP ...

All the Best 🙂

Thanks,

Ganesh

Former Member

September 6, 2013 at 5:02 pm

Great work.

Martin Grob

September 6, 2013 at 7:47 pm

Nice milestone walk still crazy how the platform developed.

Jeanne Carboni

Blog Post Author

September 24, 2013 at 7:11 pm

Thanks everyone for your feedback and comments! I'm looking forward to seeing some of you at TechEds this year. I'll be in Vegas, Amsterdam and Bangalore!

For those of you who can't make it. We can still meet virtually!

Jeanne

Suman Sardar

November 12, 2013 at 5:31 am

Superb!

Vivek Singh Bhoj

November 13, 2013 at 5:09 am

Great, looking forward to it

Join the Celebration! – #SCNis10

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