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Here are a few suggestions for prizes or gifts that I personally would appreciate:
At JavaOne, I wish Sun would give out Nintendo DS instead of Sony PSPs, I think most geeks would find that one more desirable. After all, you give out iPods and not
Zune, right? :)
I'm glad I see the "book" alternative winning in this poll, as that was what I voted for too. Electronic toys tend to lose their appeal after an hour or two and then be tossed away (or handed in to recycling, in the best case) and that feels like a bit of a waste to me. When you get a really good book (like, Java Concurrency in Practice, or Java Puzzlers) you feel you really increase your competency.
I think "Make" magazine, either a subscription, or issues, would be a great prize too, and/or some high quality tinkering tools.
When some people won Sun Ultra Workstations with Solaris preinstalled last Java One that seemed to get a big "wow" out of people, so I think that would be a great high end prize. Especially if paired with a DTrace book.
Ohh, what else.... Certification vouchers is nice. A good sound or graphics card would make every PC owner glad I think (nVidia in that case, the ATI drivers for Linux are terrible), even if they aren't gamers. Bundle with Project Looking Glass and/or MythPC live CDs, or a book about home media centers.
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