Yes, color...
I took a quick look through Google to get an idea of colors vs moods, and just grabbed the first site that popped up. The site isn't important, but I wanted to give credit. I was more interested in the correlation such as:
- Blue: Calm, harmony
- Black: Formality, elegance
- Green: Nature, Jealousy
- Purple: Royalty
- Red: Love, danger (whoa... interesting juxtaposition)
- White: Reverence, Innocence
- Yellow: Joy, Optimism
And why did I go on this search? ... I was looking to see if I could find a color for my mood after hearing from Page Brooks about the results of our Silverlight Control Builder Contest.
I thought the contest was a great way to get the community of developers fired up to build some very cool controls. I had an MSDN subscription to give away that I thought would make a great prize. That subscription limited us to US entrants only, unfortunately.
In 45 days, Page had 2300 unique visitors, and 9500 page views on the site. I hesitate to guess how many US Silverlight developers there are, but I'm going to guess there's more than a few. I had enlisted some Silverlight Superstars to help judge, and had a group of names on the tip of my tongue if we needed more. I'm pretty sure I was thinking in terms of 25 entries. We didn't get that many.
That list of prizes for the winner totalled out about $17,000 ... seriously... and made me worried we'd have a lot more than 10 or 15 entries. We didn't get that many.
Maybe it's just me, but I looked at that list of prizes from: Telerik, Xceed, Devexpress, Infragistics, and O'Reilly, and I thought "man ... the winner (or winners) of this thing are going to be contacted about jobs, or writing a book... how cool is that?" But then that worried me that we'd have a lot more than 5 or 10 entries. We didn't get that many.
We very obviously had been in contact with some Silverlight Team Project Managers at Microsoft, and global visibility of any of the entries would boost a developer's street cred' instantaneously... and I worried we'd have more than 3 to 5 entries. We didn't get that many.
Page has said the contest failed, but I don't think it did... I think the developers failed. The site was great, we all blogged about it, just on the basis of how cool an idea it was, we got all sorts of very nice prizes offered to us to give away, and I'd like to personally thank all the contributors for that! I don't think there's any more that could have been done other than drop the MSDN subscription and make it world-wide, because obviously there was only 1 Silverlight Developer in the entire United States that wanted to enter.
Congratulations to our winner (I'll not name the winner here, I'll let Page do that on his site), not only did you submit, but you submitted a very cool control that I find addictive :)
And for your efforts, you take everything off the top shelf of prizes... how cool is that?
As for everyone else, I looked through that color vs mood list, and I couldn't find a suitable color, so just
Color me ... Disappointed.
Stay in the 'Light!
-Dave
posted @ Tuesday, August 12, 2008 9:47 PM