EPSScentral accepting entries for 2007 PCD Awards

The PCD Awards for 2007 will again showcase innovation that best represents performance-centered design (PCD) in two categories - PCD Solutions and Extraordinary PCD Development Tools. You may submit entries that are currently in-production (deployed to real users, or currently marketed and sold to real customers) or at the concept stage (FUNCTIONING proofs-of-concept, design prototypes and products that are not yet in production but have measurable or anticipated measurable PCD value).
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DEADLINE: 01 August 2007, midnight GMT - 4hr.
To enter, please follow this checklist:
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Prepare and submit a publishable HTML entry using the Entry Forms provided below, by the deadline:
PCD Solution - Solutions for end-users (performers).
PCD Tool - Tools for developing solutions for performers.
Please review past entries for examples. Note the quality of the submissions. Include images, screen-shots and the like to best communicate your entry.
- Supplement the above html entry with a URL, CD, DVD, memory card, or video tape of the live experience so that judges can experience your offering in as concrete a manner as possible. If you are providing a secure URL, provide at least 5 (five) logins.
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Submit your entry fee (see below for amount) via check, PayPal (pay to email address pcdawards
epsscentral.net)
or call EPSScentral at 1-703-842-7437 to pay by American Express. -
Sign and date a publication release form (click here), which must be FAXed or postmarked by the deadline. If FAXed, the original must be received by EPSScentral before awards can be finalized
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If you submit your entry electronically, then you must FAX a verification form (click here) to EPSScentral at +1.703.842.7439 no later than midnight, 01 August 2007 GMT - 4 hr, with your signature, verifying that your electronic submissions, including payment, were deployed before the deadline.
>>Do NOT use email for submissions over 2MB. Alternatively, send a CD or DVD, provide ftp information, or contact EPSScentral to obtain the URL for our digital drop box.
>>All mailed submissions must be USPS postmarked or include an equivalent time/date stamp for FedEx, UPS, Airborne, etc. before midnight 01 August 2007.
EPSScentral LLC
6909 Pacific LA
Annandale, VA 22003-5936
+1-703-842-7437
FAX +1-703-842-7439
pcdawards
epsscentral.net
Entry fees for 2007: Corporate and non-DOD government entries: US$495. Student entries: US$199 for full or part time students whose entries are not in any way connected to corporate or government sponsored initiatives (e.g., graduate class projects, thesis/dissertation material, or post-graduate projects). US DoD Entries (US Active Military Projects only, not DoD contractors): FEES WAIVED. Student projects that are affiliated with formal contracts between organizations and educational institutions that specify work-for-hire must be submitted in the corporate or non-DOD government categories.
DEADLINE: 01 August 2007, midnight GMT - 4hr.
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