Anonymous:
Did anyone notice that notetaker for blinds just received 100+ votes overnight? Very suspicious...
I guess he is following the example of some other contestants...
notetaker cheating?
I'm not sure I need to answer for this. I think the organizer have the answer. But I would like to share some of my thoughts.
Fair voting is my top concern. I always keep in mine that I need to play fair in any circumstances. A couple of my friends seeing my vote too low said they could create hundred of emails and use that to vote for me. I said to my friends that I will not happy at all winning in that way. we should not do that. it's no fair,
I have a little practice in public relation. I’m afraid of living in a high level compete environment, and I don’t want to put too much effort to win or to take place of others..
It was hard for me to find one vote. At work, I needed to get out of my “shell office” and talked to people. I brought my prototype board to my colleague offices and did show and tell about the project, then I asked them for vote.
Guess what? After a few tours, I realized that community voting policy is not only for introducing PIC32.. I realized I got some improvement in presenting projects and ideas, and I had chances practicing English as it’s my second language.
Below here I would like to share the way I got votes. I actually started working on votes last week . You may find some answer for the “Very suspicious…”
1. Directed contact show and tell at work. My company have more than 3,000 employees but I only did that in my department and closed friends.
2. I got votes from all relatives in the US and in Vietnam.
2. Posted my design Vietnamese technical forums. I had to wrote description and voting guide in Vietnamese. This way is not very effective since my voice was too soft. Many of them got sweaty reading English. I recently made an detail instruction in Vietnamese to vote on mypic32.com
3. My high school physic teacher support me with all her heart. She printed hundred of flies and gave to anyone she knows. She asked them and their families to vote.
4. One of my colleague at work broadcast my email to several universities in Vietnam.
5. Asked helped from my closest friend in Vietnam. He owns a manufacture making auto-fiberglass product export to Japan. After he got my email a few days ago, he let five of his office employees brought papers to local universities in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) and introduced directly to students about the contest and the projects. Then they went to several internet service/chat rooms and talked to people sitting there, and asked to vote. My friend said people there were happy to vote for me since the project carried some social aspect, help blinds
Talked to me three days ago he said finding several thousand votes was not a problems. During that time he noted that his father was in the hospital. Yesterday I sadly learned that his father has passed away. We paused voting.
Really sad ; ;
txnghia
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