Category Archives: contest

Nominations Ending for Open Source for America Awards

Nominations for the Open Source for America Awards closes on Friday, March 22 so you better get your nominations in people! Each year, Open Source for America recognizes individuals, projects, and deployments that support its mission to encourage free and … Continue reading

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Province of B.C, Canada forges ahead with OpenData initiatives

This week a special Open Data Summit took place in Vancouver, B.C where about 120 government folk and stakeholders took part in the discussion around the topic of OpenGov and Open Data. In a report from the event, it was … Continue reading

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Opportunity – 2013 IEEE Data Fusion Contest

Recently, the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society announced plans for its 2013 Data Fusion Contest. The Contest, which helps connecting students and researchers around the world, evaluates existing methodologies at the research or operational level to solve remote sensing … Continue reading

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Hey Developers, GeoGeeks and Hackers, help Amplify USGS Data

An interesting effort and competition from the USGS as they issue a call to developers in a search for hackers, mashup artists, devs, geogeeks and others to help in App-lifying and Enhancing USGS Earth Science Data. USGS scientists are looking … Continue reading

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Another Viral video (almost) and cool contest from TomTom

It looks like Christopher Bradshaw and the gang at TomTom are at it again and enticing folks to check out TomTom’s navigation solutions and devices and also getting a chance to win some very cool prizes. Using an “unwrap the … Continue reading

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America the Beautiful Essay Contest

An interesting opportunity here… With its “America the Beautiful” student essay contest underway, Rand McNally today unveiled details about the once-in-a-lifetime trips to Washington, D.C. that ten finalists and their parent/guardian have the opportunity to win. The ten finalists, whose essays … Continue reading

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The Great Canadian Apportunity – An interesting Mobile Dev project from Microsoft Canada

Hey developers an interesting project from Microsoft Canada sent my way via a friend and colleague in Montreal – The Great Canadian Apportunity.  The Great Canadian Apportunity is a mobile app development contest for Windows Phone 7. There are 9 … Continue reading

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Bluetooth SIG Application Developers’ Contest

An interesting competition just announced for developers… The Bluetooth Application Developers’ Contest. The contest will promote open source collaboration that will allow users to develop new and improved uses for mobile phones and PCs with the help of Bluetooth wireless … Continue reading

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Mushup Australia contest from Government 2.0 Taskforce

An interesting announcement from Down-under… A few days ago Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce announced an open invitation to any “able and willing body” to create mashups with nominated datasets from various Federal and State jurisdictions in Australia. Australian Government has … Continue reading

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ESRI Developers – ESRI and Microsoft (Bing) are Challenging you to Mashup

Details of a cool, new developer competition just hit my desk courtesy of the team at ESRI UK. ESRI (UK) and Bing Maps are challenging the UK’s Web developers to build a GIS-based mashup that demonstrates how GIS can be … Continue reading

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Photographers – take note of this cool contest and share the experience

Just found this one from the BLM website – The Share the Experience Photo Contest is the official photo contest for the new America the Beautiful – The National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass. ter the “Share the Experience™” … Continue reading

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