Meet the #BigApps Winners

JOIN US NEXT WEDNESDAY, 20 April 2011 for #OpenNY's "Meet the winners!" http://bit.ly/OpenNY_April2011

Two weeks ago, Mayor Bloomberg announced the winners of BigApps 2.0, the city's challenge to developers to innovate apps off of the City's DataMine. < http://bit.ly/BigApps2_winners > In doing so, BMW stepped up and doubled the prize money for each winner!! While we congratulate all of the winners, for the next #OpenNY meetup, we will profile seven.

Best, Overall Awards

Grand Prize - Roadify - http://www.roadify.com Second Prize - Sportaneous - http://www.sportaneous.com Student Award

Don't Eat at - http://www.donteat.at Honorable Mentions

Appetition - http://www.appetition.it NextStop - http://www.brooklynappfactory.com Weeels - http://www.weeels.org CultureNOW - http://www.culturenow.org Each presenter will have five mins to demo their app, talk about their data mine experience and talk about the future of their app. After each presentation, we'll open the floor for five mins of audience questions.

Event date: Wednesday, April 20 from 6:30 till 8:30

Location: New Work City, 412 Broadway, 2nd floor, NYC; http://nwc.co/map

Meetup event link: https://www.meetup.com/openny/events/17119839/ or http://bit.ly/OpenNY_April2011

Hashtag: #OpenNY

Schedule of the evening:

6:30 - 7:00 Opening Social / Set up

7:00 - 7:15 Introductions and announcements

7:15 - 8:30 Presentations

8:30 - 9:00 Closing Social / Clean up

Also, you should note that NYC's Deputy Mayor Steven Goldsmith was recently interviewed on C-SPAN. This interview provides unique insight into his thinking about a smarter Government | http://bit.ly/DMGoldsmith_cspan |. Additionally, you should check out a complementary interview of the Deputy Mayor interview by Alex Howard | http://oreil.ly/e39Atz |.

Finally, I'd like to introduce two new sponsors of the meetup: Reinvent Albany | www.reinventalbany.org | and NWCU's new sponsor, Blackberry.

See you next Wednesday, and we're sorry that this event conflicts with Passover.

Thx, @noneck (http://twitter.com/noneck)