Go to Office Dev Con 2008 for FREE

You probably saw some posts about the 2008 Microsoft Office System Developer Conference which is coming up in February. Conference will be held in San Jose, California from Feb 10-13. The sessions will be posted here.

Compared to the Office Dev Con two years ago which was by invitation only, everyone can register for this years conference. Besides that you can get free a pass to the conference and the complete package - that's a free pass AND free travel to San Jose, California.

There's a contest going on over at CodeProject. Here's how can you get the free conference pass and free conference pass + free travel:

1. Record a 2 min video and explain why you want to attend the conference.
2. Write a great article explaining how to build an app using 2007 Microsoft Office system (hint: use VSTO :)).

Members of CodeProject will vote for the best in these two categories and the highest-rated will be a winner (also rated by judges). Deadline is January 15, so you have a plenty of time left. 

This contest reminds me to the one which was held for PDC '05 at Channel9. I was one of the winners in that contest and I got a free travel/hotel + PDC '05 pass. I remember that was my first trip to US, besides I met a couple of my current co-workers at that conference! Now you decide if it was worth it :)