Apps for America

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Data.gov launches May 20 and Apps for America launches the same day as a development contest that nets $10,000 first prize, $5,000 second and a $1,000 third plus ten $500 honorable mentions and a separate visualization prize; winners fly to Gov 2.0 Expo. Rules require using any OSI‑approved license and data linked from data.gov. Claim: government spent ~$16M on whitehouse.gov CMS versus $2.8M on Obama.com. Deadline is Aug 7; hackathon builds parsers for state legislation, votes and legislators.

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