The XML Challenge

Name: The XML Challenge

Details: 3 level quiz 

Website: developerworkscontest.com
Organized By: IBM deverloperWorks

Open to:  Developers and Database Administrators of any technology. However the contest will focus more on DB2 9 and pureXM

Renovate Your Business contest

Name: Renovate Your Business contest

Website: microsoft.com/india/sbs/renovateyourbusiness/contest.aspx
Organized By: Microsoft

Gizmox dares community members to break into Visual WebGui

Details: The contest bets $10,000 that no one can hack their Empty Client Platform, Visual WebGui

Website: http://www.visualwebgui.com/Community/Resources/News/tabid/328/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/357/Gizmox-Dares-Breaking-Into-Visual-WebGui.aspx

Google Code Jam

Name: Google Code Jam

Details: Coding competition in which professional and student programmers are asked to solve complex algorithmic challenges in a limited amount of time. The contest is all-inclusive: Google Code Jam lets you program in the coding language and development environment of your choice.

At Stake: Top 100 finalists will divide over $80,000 in prize money

Code Project Random Programming Competition

Name: The Code Project Random Programming Competition, Summer 2008.
Details: Write an application that implements the 1971 'Star Trek' game in whatever manner you feel like. Use a technology you've never touched before. Use a technology you're an ace in. Or just use a technology that is absolutely inappropriate for the task and hand and bend it to your will.
At Stake: TechEd 2008 bag, a Code Project fleece size XL and a dozen Code Project stickers

Closes: 31st August, 2008

Nokia Nseries :: Fusions Challenge (Closes: 27th July 2008)

Name: Nokia Nseries :: Fusions Challenge

At Stake: Trip to Turkey & Nokia N78
Country Focus: India

Closes: 27th July 2008

Cutscape: Cut their own music video contest

Name: Cutscape

Details: Open-source competition created to allow editors, filmmakers, or even your average music video fan to take professionally shot, film-grade footage and cut their own music video. The idea being there are many ways to tell a story and we want to find the best!

OpenCut - Open-source Film Editting Competition

Name: OpenCut - Open-source Film Editting Competition

Details: OpenCut is a completely open-source film competition designed to encourage people to take professionally shot material and edit it in their own way. As there is no "one way" to tell a story, so too can stories benefit from being re-edited and re-told from many different vantage points and perspectives.

Closes: Currently Closed. Version 2 will open soon.