---
title: "Announcing: .Net Desktops Contest"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/11/announcing-net-desktops-contest.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/11/announcing-net-desktops-contest.html"
published: "2003-06-11T08:37:00"
updated: "2003-06-11T08:37:00"
tags: ["Other"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "OK. Here's a cool idea. A \" Coolest Desktop \" gallery. 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…"
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 11, 2003 In [Other](https://osherove.com/blog/category/other)

**Historical article** · Originally published June 11, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

OK. Here's a cool idea. A "_Coolest Desktop_" gallery. 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 [photo gallery](http://pnavy.com/royo/desktops) for everyone to watch. [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.

p.s

It can take about 12 hours until you start seeing the shots I got by mail,so be patient...

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## 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.

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