Contests and Competitions

[Luke Dary]

Based on Jonathan's success with the Places competition I thought it might be helpful for people to post any code contests or competitions that include Google products.

First one to mention is the Github Data Challenge which allows people to use Github data to do visualizations or whatever you might want. Check it out.

Would love to hear what other people might know about as far as code competitions.

Luke

[Jonathan Kraemer]

There is this OGC App Challenge for college students.

From the challenge website (http://appchallenge.opengeospatial.org/index.html):

The OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) challenges students who have software development skills to create new applications that use OGC standards in innovative, interesting and fun ways. Students who participate in this challenge will use or develop software that implements OGC standards (http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/is).

For example, the software application can do some or all of the following:

• Mash up data from a variety of existing geospatial Web services that provide location data
• Provide access to new sources of location data (including, for example, sensors, computer models, webcams, 3D urban models, mobile devices, or spatial databases) to support innovative applications.
• Provide access to original new Web services that provide processing capabilities for innovative applications that use new or existing location data.

Open Category; Use Your Imagination! Ideas could include, but are not limited to:

• Transportation, Public Safety, Urban Planning and Modeling
• Social, Personal Productivity, Games, Fun
• Non-profit: Education / Water / Food and Hunger / Health / Climate / Environment
• Sensing, Smart Cities
• Crowd Sourcing, Citizen Science

Best Regards,

Luke

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[Luke Dary]

Google Cloud Developer Challenge 2013 is on.

http://www.google.com/events/gcdc2013/

What is the Google Cloud Developer Challenge?

Developers in 6 regions across the world will win prizes that include Android devices and up to $20,000 USD. 
We are also highlighting innovations of students and female developers!

All you have to do is build and submit an amazing application in one of these categories:

• Enterprise/Small Business Solutions , Education, Not for Profit
• Social / Personal Productivity/Games / Fun

A winner will be chosen for each category, in each region -- 12 prizes in total.

Awards for best mentors! A mentor will be chosen for in each region -- 6 prizes in total.