Data.gov - and a new contest
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Gabriela Schneider
May 21, 2009, 2:17:08 PM5/21/09
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Hi everyone,
Inspired by the new http://Data.gov site, Sunlight is calling all developers and designers to enter its new contest, Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge.
In collaboration and with financial support from Craig Newmark (founder of Craigslist and Sunlight Board Director), Google, O'Reilly Media and TechWeb, we are offering over $25,000 in prizes for creative apps that use one or more of the data sources on this new open repository of government information.
We're also encouraging contestants to use one of our open source libraries of government information or APIs, or those of our partners, including the new MAPLight.org Congress API, the OpenSecrets API or the FollowtheMoney.org API.
More information:
Blog post: http://bit.ly/apps2blog
Contest page: http://sunlightlabs.com/contests/appsforamerica2/
Press release: http://bit.ly/apps2pr
(maybe you'd like to digg it, too? http://digg.com/programming/Data_gov_Launches_25_000_contest_for_best_app)
I'm happy to answer any questions.
Thanks,
Gabriela
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Gabriela Schneider
Communications Director
Sunlight Foundation
1818 N Street, NW Suite 410
WDC 20036
p: 202/742-1520 x 236
c: 202/746-0439
gschn...@sunlightfoundation.com
http://sunlightfoundation.com
http://twitter.com/stereogab
Inspired by the new http://Data.gov site, Sunlight is calling all developers and designers to enter its new contest, Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge.
In collaboration and with financial support from Craig Newmark (founder of Craigslist and Sunlight Board Director), Google, O'Reilly Media and TechWeb, we are offering over $25,000 in prizes for creative apps that use one or more of the data sources on this new open repository of government information.
We're also encouraging contestants to use one of our open source libraries of government information or APIs, or those of our partners, including the new MAPLight.org Congress API, the OpenSecrets API or the FollowtheMoney.org API.
More information:
Blog post: http://bit.ly/apps2blog
Contest page: http://sunlightlabs.com/contests/appsforamerica2/
Press release: http://bit.ly/apps2pr
(maybe you'd like to digg it, too? http://digg.com/programming/Data_gov_Launches_25_000_contest_for_best_app)
I'm happy to answer any questions.
Thanks,
Gabriela
--
Gabriela Schneider
Communications Director
Sunlight Foundation
1818 N Street, NW Suite 410
WDC 20036
p: 202/742-1520 x 236
c: 202/746-0439
gschn...@sunlightfoundation.com
http://sunlightfoundation.com
http://twitter.com/stereogab
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