Duration of Contest: 13th March 2013 to 15th September 2013.
From github:
This contest is for software developers.
Step 0 – You need your own GitHub account
Step 1 – Read the rules in the Wiki
Step 2 – Fork this repo to your own GitHub account
Step 3 – Send us your email address
Step 4 – Modify your copy of the repo as your Submission
Categories/Prizes:
We want you to build something cool using or modifying our open source software. Your submission will be a standalone program or a patch for one of our open source projects. Your submission will be judged in these categories:
Best Example Application Mash-Up
Best New Monkey
Best Contribution to Code Quality
Best New Feature
Best Contribution to Operational Tools, Availability, and Manageability
Best Portability Enhancement
Best Contribution to Performance Improvements
Best Datastore Integration
Best Usability Enhancement
Judges Choice Award
If you win, you’ll get US$10,000 cash, US$5000 AWS credits, a trip to Las Vegas for two, a ticket to Amazon’s user conference, and fame and notoriety (at least within Netflix Engineering).
I can see several of those categories where topic maps would make a nice fit.
You?
Yes, I have an ulterior motive. Having topic maps underlying one or more winners or even runners-up in this contest would promote topic maps and gain needed visibility.
I first saw this at: $10k prizes up for grabs in Netflix cloud contest by Elliot Bentley.