[open-government] How to make apps contests more sustainable?

Tue Nov 13 15:39:42 UTC 2012

It's okay if the apps are not sustainable. What's important is to
facilitate the discovery of what's been tried and to connect innovators.

Build on what exists. Weave the network.

So in addition to documenting contests, it might be good to document and
share the apps (= ideas, attempts, failures, all of it).

I wonder if tags or some other sort of metadata could be used to aggregate?

Cheers,

C.

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On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Antti Jogi Poikola <antti.poikola at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your opinions already! Now we have opened also a online survey
> to collect feedback from app contest organizers (see the invitation
> below and feel free to forward it).
>
> Here is also Clay Johnson's old but still very relevant blog post: "Build
> communities not contests":
> http://www.informationdiet.com/blog/read/build-communities-not-contests
>
> -Antti "Jogi" Poikola
>
> ---CLIP---
>
> Dear Open Data Apps Contest Organiser,
>
> We would like to invite you to an on-live survey regarding Apps contests
> around the world. We aim to gain some insight in the process, as well as
> collect lessons learned. The results will be put in a short topic report
> paper, to be presented on-line at the ePSI platform, and be valuable input
> for the start of Apps for Europe in 2013.
>
> The survey is located here: http://goo.gl/OAHO4
>
> It will take about 10 minutes of your time.
>
> If time permits, please see also if the basic information of your Apps
> Contest is already listed here and make the relevant corrections:
> http://bit.ly/apps_contests_list
>
> Thank you for your time and participation. Any questions are very welcome;
> please let us know.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Frank Kresin & Antti Poikola
>
>
> PS. *Invitation to jois international Apps Contest Organizers email -list*
> Feel free to join the discussion at the appsforx -email list. The list was
> established after a international Apps Contest Organizers meetup which was
> organized during the Open Knowledge Festival 2012 in Helsinki:
> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/appsforx
>
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