September 9, 2009 – 2:55 am
The second Clay, hairier and less well-dressed. Head of Sunlight Labs, part of the Sunlight Foundation. I was at his house on Monday night for a turkey cook-off between him and Chris DiBona of Google. Clay won, by the simple expedient of deep-frying his birds. Clay's a good Southerner.
Apps for America, contest around data.gov. This is their second contest. (I apologise for not linking here, I'm blogging on the run at the conf--Google will find you the projects I mention here)
Rule: any entry needs to be open source. OSI-approved license, just needs to be open source. Second rule: any feed from data.gov, even data.gov itself.
Prizes: $10k first prize, $5k second, $2500 third. And a $2500 visualization special category, and ten honourable mentions at $500 apiece.
47 open source projects were created, most still being maintained.
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