Team SKAN wins the Imagine Cup Interoperablity award!

[anna]

Greetings!!

The good news continues to flow... It gives me great pleasure to announce...

Team SKAN wins the Imagine Cup Interoperability award!

They were one of three teams (the other two being from Brazil and Mexico) to be eligible for this special award...

The winners are decided by how well and how much the contestants are able to mix Microsoft and non Microsoft technology...and parameters like "wow factor"...

Great job guys!!!

The prizes include a trip to MS HQ and maybe future use of their ideas in Microsoft websites with appropriate credits!! Too cool!!

Hoping to hear more such great news...

Anna

[John Anderton]

Thanks! I guess you read on the new IC site, eh? Sorry I didn't tell you earlier about the theme and the finals location.. We kinda knew it like a month back and got it confirmed after we came here.. I just didn't think it was important enough for me to post now.. it could probably wait for the new IC page

Just a few corrections, the other two teams were Brazil and Poland More than the wow factor.. I think it was about our interoperability by design that got us there.. Lots of pics.. a few vids even of us going up on stage and wildly yelling Will share it whFen we come back

For a list of all the winners, visit the official IC News page (with an all new theme now! :o) http://imaginecup.com/about/news.aspx
Au Revior!

[Rupal]

wooohoo ! Congratulations team SKAN...World Champions  !
 

[SaM]

Thank you anna and Rupal.

Just put up a page - http://enpower.in
And a few photos - http://www.flickr.com/photos/samsi4u/

Cheers
SaM

[John Anderton]

More pics when I return tomorrow night.. Thanks for the pics SaM Hope to come visit you soon in the upcoming days so I can give you the ones me and Noel and take the ones you have. There are of course a few other things I need to pick up as well

[John Anderton]

Imagine Cup is very serious business but that doesn't mean we don't have fun.. if you want to know what we do in our free time, do have a look at http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/40-seconds-of-nothing/

As Sriram said in that post on chan8, "This video contains absolutely nothing that's even remotely intellectual."

[John Anderton]

So I've finally stopped being lazy and written up the entire competition in as short a description as possible and those who were there know that its short.. there are a ton of things that happened during that period that I've left out There are a lot more pics but I'll keep uploading them now and again. The important ones are up, I think but the one important thing that I've not put up is the video of us winning. I have the entire interop award presentation on video I have processed that video (my cam recoded the 4 min 4 sec video in a 483 MB file and I compressed it down considerably) but I need to add subtitles because you can't clearly hear everything that's happening I'll put it up with a few selected videos from the week a bit later. I need to process a few of them and add subtitles if necessary.

http://jalife.net/2008/07/20/imagine-cup-2008-world-finals/
http://picasaweb.google.com/john.anderton/

I've also uploaded pictures from the National Finals and from Ahemedabad. SaM and stridy should have a look as well in the National finals folder because I have quite a few pictures that we didn't earlier.
Have fun!

[SaM]

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[John Anderton]

My brother read this article and commented "Nice article. There is still brilliance in the young generation. But who in the world is team SKAN? No descriptions.. no names "

[John Anderton]

I've added tons of pics but I'm not sure if I linked you guys to it or not. Here's a link anyway.
http://picasaweb.google.com/john.anderton/IC2008WorldFinals/

I've added the press snapshots (http://picasaweb.google.com/john.anderton/IC2008WorldFinals/ was the one on Microsoft.com's IC08 Press Release) and I also went through the IC08 SkyDrive that Joe (or who ever from Microsoft was using his name to write the email) emailed us the link to and put up pictures of us. I tried finding the other times we were snapped up in the hotel like while playing on the 360s but I couldn't find them. I couldn't find a jpeg of the pics taken from atop Novotel so the only one we have is the embedded silverlight pics..

I still can't upload the video I have so I'll youtube it. Picasa seems to hate videos and I have web based uploading on my connection
Have a look at the new pictures -> http://picasaweb.google.com/john.anderton/IC2008WorldFinals/
Few new pics in the Paris folder too -> http://picasaweb.google.com/john.anderton/Paris

[anna]

Greetings...

Cool pics... so many champagne moments.... they will always reamin testament to the time when AXISCORE members were the undisputed kings of Interoperability!

Hoping for many more such moments...

Anna

[John Anderton]

I just got this message from Sriram (MSP from UAE and member of the Channel 8 team) that a video of our "winning moment" has been put online. Here's a link. I'll try watching it now
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-gb&vid=c60ff4d7-a64e-48fa-958b-4ff68979049f

I can't even open those videos so could someone upload the video for me somewhere or even upload it to our folder and let me download it? I'd like to keep a copy of it. If someone's up to it, I'll let them know how to rip the video in case they don't know how to

EDIT: Here's a downloadable wmv of the same video if there's anyone out there who can't stream videos (like me )
http://isnewb.com/Team%20SKAN%20-%20The%20Winning%20Moment.wmv

[John Anderton]

Channel 8 is in the news again but this video is slightly old. It has a nice summary of the award ceremony and a behind the scenes interview of Joe Wilson and a guest
It a 10 minute video in silverlight but its well worth it. Go have a look

http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/Imagine-Cup-2008-Finals-Behind-the-Scenes-and-Awards-Ceremony/

[John Anderton]

If you have the paper, go over to page 43 of your copy of the Mumbai Mirror and have a read



Source: Source

[John Anderton]

It took a while but we're finally there! Believe it or not, I had checked it less than a week after we had won (in Paris itself) and found nothing
Here's a link. http://www.microsoft.com/interop/events/default.aspx :o

I like the first video they have posted. Its essentially like the two videos that I had put up (one with me taking the cam on stage) and the other shot by Sriram from the crowd. This one's from cameras around the room using the sound feed from the mic that Joe Wilson has worn (so it has perfectly clear voice )

The second video is the one where we were interviewed by Mark back in May moments after we were declared first runners up at the National Finals.