Mozilla Launches $300,000 Gigabit Community Fund

Posted by Soulskill on Friday February 7, 2014 @10:55AM from the give-me-gigabit-or-give-me...-well,-at-least-dsl dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla has officially launched the Gigabit Community Fund, an organization that seeks to 'advance the development, experimentation and implementation of learning and workforce opportunities enhanced by new, super powerful Internet technologies.' The intent is to provide funding around cities like Kansas City and Chattanooga (and more, as fiber networks spread) for people to build open source applications that take advantage of super-fast fiber connections. 'The new $300,000 fund aims to bring discoveries out of the lab and into the field to help move prototypes to Minimum Viable Pilots and get tools in the hands of users. In each city, two, 12-week pilot periods will run, with up to 10 projects receiving awards between $5,000 and $30,000.'"

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Alternative to Beta by computersareevil · 2014-02-07 10:59 · Score: 4, Informative

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