FCC Pays $100K To Open Source Apps Challenge Winner

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 16, 2011 @11:29AM from the uncle-sam-wants-his-own-app-store dept.

coondoggie writes "The challenge: develop useful, localized open source apps that make local public information more personalized and usable. With that idea as the backdrop, the Federal Communications Commission and the Knight Foundation today awarded Code for America developer Ryan Resella the $30,000 Apps for Communities Challenge grand prize. Resella won for his YAKB.us app, a real time bus notification system for bus riders without a smartphone. Rasella developed an app that uses voice and SMS to deliver arrival times in English and Spanish."

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Damn, they didn't like mine :( by Anonymous Coward · 2011-12-16 11:44 · Score: 5, Funny

It was an android app for women's health issues. Specifically, how to shave or wax your pussy. The best part is that you could automatically upload before/after pics and share with your friends. Maybe women don't use android?
Certainly more useful than this bus thing.