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From: shane_digital
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 6:36 PM
Subject: Apps For America Contest: With A First Place Prize Of $15,000!
Apps For America Contest: With A First Place Prize Of $15,000!
What it Is
Apps for America is Sunlight's annual development contest! Prizes go
to developers who can use data from Sunlight and our partners that
makes Congress more accountable, interactive and transparent.
How to Compete
1.
Contestants must join the Sunlight Labs Google Group
2.
Entries must be applications that use one of the following APIs
or Datasets in their mashup:
* Sunlight Labs API
* OpenSecrets.org API
* FollowTheMoney.org API
* Capitol Words API
* Sunlight Labs API Lawmaker Dataset
* Sunlight Labs API Lobbyist Dataset
* Sunlight Partytime Database Dump
Entries can be client applications, web based applications,
applications that use the Adobe AIR platform, Java applications or
whatever other kind of platform you'd like to write it in. We use
Django for most of ours.
http://sunlightlabs.com/appsforamerica/
1.
While not required, bonus points go to using one of Sunlight's
open source libraries
2.
All software you write has to be licensed under the MIT, New BSD
or the GPL family of licenses.
Criteria
Awards will be judged based on the following criteria:
1.
Usefulness to constituents for watching over and communicating
with their members of Congress
2.
Potential impact of ethical standards on Congress
3.
Originality of the application
4.
Potential usability of the application
5.
Code quality of application
Prizes:
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First Place (1): $15,000
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Second Place (1): $5,000
*
Third Place (4): $1,000
*
Honorable Mention (10): $100
An individual can have as many entries as they'd like, and an
individual can win one prize per entry they provide, however one entry
cannot win more than one prize.
Judges:
* Adrian Holovaty - Founder, Everyblock.com, Django Project
* Aaron Swartz - Director, Watchdog.net
* Peter Corbett - iStrategyLabs
* Xeni Jardin - BoingBoing.net
* Clay Johnson - Director, Sunlight Labs
Submission
Submit your application using our app submission form. After approval
your app will be added to our contest entry gallery.
Remember to sign up for the Sunlight Labs Google Group too, so you can
keep up to date with recent announcements and participate with the
community.
* All submissions will be posted online as soon as they are sent
in. Please only send in complete entries. *
Deadline
Submissions are due on March 31st. Winners will be announced on April
7th.
http://sunlightlabs.com/appsforamerica/
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