Welcome to the Navatar Slumdog Developer Contest for Cloud Developers, happening now through April 30, 2009. Anybody can participate, starting today. We want to see how far you can take the Force.com platform, and the new Force.com Sites in particular. We’ll be handing out iPod nanos and iPod touches for interesting applications that show innovation or creativity.

Simply register to participate and learn more. There aren’t many rules to hinder your creativity. After the contest, we will give away iPod Nanos and iPod Touches to the five most exciting submissions. In addition, if your submission is one of the five selected, you will also have an opportunity to have your resume considered for joining the exciting and fast-growing Navatar team in the United States or in India. Sound interesting?

Why is it a slumdog contest? Because at Navatar we are doing some of the most exciting things happening today in the Cloud Computing world with Force.com, even though most of us came from humble beginnings. For instance, read the success story of Rexlo Joe who came from a remote village of Tamil Nadu, India a few years ago to become a top Cloud Computing Architect on Wall Street (read Rexlo Joe’s success story). With the Navatar Slumdog Developer Contest, we want to recognize and highlight your talent and your work.

Launch of the Navatar Slumdog Developer Contest

We also invite you to participate in the launch at the Silicon Valley Developer Force User Group at Santa Clara on March 18th, 2009. The User Group event will have a quiz as part of the Navatar Slumdog Developer Contest with exciting prizes. Don’t worry if you miss the launch at the User Group events, though – you will still be able to participate in the contest by registering at http://www.navatargroup.com/slumdogcontest.html.

Have questions or suggestions? We’d love to hear from you.

The Navatar team.