--- title: "Announcing: .Net Desktops Contest" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/10/announcing-net-desktops-contest.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/10/announcing-net-desktops-contest.html" published: "2003-06-10T19:15:00" updated: "2003-06-10T19:15:00" tags: ["Off Topic"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "OK. Here's a cool idea. A \" Coolest Desktop \" contest. Whoever wants, sends me a screenshot of their desktop ,either at home or at work, in a zip file, to [email removed] - make sure its a jpg or gif,…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Announcing: .Net Desktops Contest By Roy Osherove June 10, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) **Historical article** · Originally published June 10, 2003; technical details may be outdated. OK. Here's a cool idea. A "_Coolest Desktop_" contest. Whoever wants, sends me a screenshot of their desktop ,either at home or at work, in a zip file, to **\[email removed\]** \- make sure its a jpg or gif, not a bmp \-put "\[contest\]" in the subject or body, and a link to your blog/site(if you have one) \- 1 pic per person \- send in a ZIP file only! I'll put the screenshots up in the contest photo gallery for everyone to watch.  Then we'll somehow have to decide of a winner, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.(Hey, maybe we can get one of the MSFT folks to arrange for a cool prize?) I've already put mine up. The album is located here: [http://pnavy.com/royo/desktops](http://pnavy.com/royo/desktops) Let's see what we can come up with. I was a witness to such a contest about 2-3 years ago, and people came up with some amazing desktops. Mine is pretty boring, but I'll try to put my work desktop instead...
p.s It will take about 12 hours until you start seeing the shots I got by mail,so be patient... ## More in Off Topic [All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) - Jun 11, 2003 ### [Joseph Has a Point](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/11/joseph-has-a-point.html) - Jun 11, 2003 ### [Disappointment](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/11/disappointment.html) - Jun 10, 2003 ### [The Google King](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/10/the-google-king.html) - Jun 10, 2003 ### [Cool Photo Hosting](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/10/cool-photo-hosting.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/