Space Coast .Net will be holding its round of Speaker Idol on Dec 16,2009. Please contact Ken Tucker if you want to complete.
The Florida Microsoft Community Speaker Idol Competition (Microsoft Speaker Idol for short) is an exciting and challenging event where Developers across the state speak on topics of interest to them. The purpose of the Microsoft Speaker Idol competition is to enable lesser known members of the technical community to be recognized for their talents and speaking abilities. Our goal is to find “diamonds in the rough” and future thought leaders in User Groups and Code Camps across the state. The Microsoft Speaker Idol competition will consist of three phases: User Group, Regional, and Finals.
The first phase is where User Groups and other recognized organizations focusing on the Microsoft platform hold events and nominate a speaker to participate in the Regional competition. We are hopeful that each User Group will nominate a speaker to send to the Regional competition.
The Regional competition is the second phase in the competition and will be held at a location convenient to the User Groups assigned to this region. Each region will select, in a regional competition, a regional Speaker Idol and a runner up. During this phase we will need volunteers to serve as regional coordinators and help drive participation. Microsoft is offering a $200 pre-paid credit card to be given to (confirmed) regional winners so that they might travel to the finals. If the winner is unable to attend the finals, this credit card is to be given to the runner up.
The final phase of the competition is to be held in Lakeland Florida in March of 2010. Each finalist is allotted approximately 10 minutes (depending on individual event rules) to deliver their message and compete against others in their competition.
All Regional finalists will be recorded on digital video and published on the Channel 9 Tool Shed Shows website (http://channel9.msdn.com/sh
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