#DifferentSpokes Agenda for 6/19/13

#DifferentSpokes returns Tomorrow, at 3pm EST and with a packed show of special community guests and topics!

Joining us will be Kenji776, ForceLogic, Manish_Kumar and Soe. We will also be introducing our newest team member, Chris Delaurentis aka LazyBaer, who we expect to be a regular host with us from here on out.

Webinar: Saugatuck Technology & CloudSpokes - Advantages of Community Development

In the new "cloud-enabled" world, the entire technology stack has been democratized. However access to expert technical talent continues to be a major hurdle for organizations of all sizes.

Saugatuck Technology has taken an independent look at the data and successes behind the CloudSpokes community software development model, and will be reviewing findings in an upcoming co-hosted webinar on June 25th at 10am PDT.

Forum Notifications

When we launched our site re-design back in February, we also added true forums. Up until now, there was no clear instruction on how to get notifications from the forums when something new was posted, or when a new comment was added to a thread you were participating on.

Code Blitz Winners!

All the challenges are wrapped up and it's time to announce the winners of our first-ever Code Blitz!!

But first, here's a quick recap, by the numbers:
- 30+ open challenges with $30k+ up for grabs
- 32 challenge winners and 7 first-time winners
- 92 submissions, 181 registered members total
- 2 overall Code Blitz winners!

Emerging Maturity: Paying for Performance in a Crowdsourced Competition Model

It's the final chapter of the saga. We've covered three of the four major crowdsourcing model differentiators so far, comparing Freelancer, Microtask, and Competition-based models. Now for the fourth and final differentiator:

(1) Task Complexity
(2) Variable Skills & Scale
(3) Self-Selected Experts
(4) Paying for Performance

Risk Assessment Tool Winners!

A couple weeks back we launched this Risk Assessment Tool software development challenge that ran for a quick 5 days over  the weekend and fell right in the middle of Code Blitz. This challenge was awesome for a number of reasons. It had 10 members registered or watching, and a very active discussion thread. Also, the name alone gave me a great reason to watch 1983 super flick Risky Business starring Tom Cruise.

Where the Heck has #DifferentSpokes Been?

You're probably all wondering where #DifferentSpokes gang has been since there was no episode the past few weeks. Have no fear, we haven't stopped the shows, just ran into some scheduling issues that caused the last episode be canceled. It was actually a good thing however as it gave the crew extra time to write up some super awesome software development challenges for you to compete on, hence Code Blitz and MESH01 Code Blitz.