Masters of the Muni-verse Prizes, Rules, and Fine Print
1st Prize: Complimentary registration and $500 travel stipend for the International Summit for Community Wireless Networks May 18-20, 2007 at Loyola College in Columbia, Maryland, and a half-pound box of fair trade organic hand-made chocolates delivered to your door.
2nd Prize: Complimentary registration and $250 travel stipend for the International Summit for Community Wireless Networks May 18-20, 2007 at Loyola College in Columbia, Maryland, and a half-pound box of fair trade organic hand-made chocolates delivered to your door.
3rd Prize: A half-pound box of fair trade organic hand-made chocolates delivered to your door.
Registration to the International Summit for Community Wireless Networks is provided by the Summit's hosts: the CUWiN Foundation and the Center for Community Informatics. The 2007 Summit takes place May 18-20 in Columbia, Maryland (right outside Washington, DC) and brings together wireless network developers and implementers, policy experts, and community organizers from around the world to explore the future of broadband.
For more information on the International Summit for Community Wireless Networks, visit www.WirelessSummit.org.
The $500 1st Prize travel stipend and all chocolates are sponsored by The Ethos Group.
The $250 2nd prize travel stipend is sponsored by The Acorn Active Media Foundation.
Chocolates are provided by Lucky Chocolates, a mom-and-pop shop on the outskirts of Woodstock, NY, specializing in high-quality, hand-made, organic, fair trade chocolate.
Masters of the Muni-Verse nomination form.
What is a “resource”? Resources are broadly defined and open to your interpretation but may include: articles, blog posts, interviews, educational materials, organizing tools, municipal documents such as task force reports and RFPs, original research, white papers, presentations, conferences, maps, graphs, diagrams, analytical tools, websites or RSS feeds, email lists, or even other resource centers.
What resources are eligible? Resources may have a copyright, but they must be available on the World Wide Web to the general public without cost or obligation.
What topics is The Ethos Group looking for? Topics include (but are not limited to): case studies, business models, technical information and comparisons, digital inclusion initiatives, rural connectivity, public health and safety, disaster response, policies and governance, and do-it-yourself networking, as well as more general information on broadband and how the Internet works.
Who is the audience for the resources? Resources should be useful for decision-makers, consultants, community organizers, researchers, solution providers or end users.
How do I win? Ethos Group staff will select the winners from among completed entry forms. The more resources that you share with us, the higher your chance to win.
What are the contest dates? This challenge will be closed on April 23, 2007. Winners will be notified no later than April 25, 2007, and will be announced at the International Summit for Community Wireless Networks on May 18, 2007.
Will there be more Ethos Challenges? The Ethos Group is committed to using open, fun, collaborative processes to build public awareness and knowledge of municipal broadband development. Feel free to suggest topics for the next Ethos Challenge or possible prizes.
Masters of the Muni-verse nomination form.
Each complete, unique submission is a nomination.
Multiple entries for unique resources are encouraged.
Prize winners will be selected at random from all complete, eligible nominations.
As determined by Ethos, submissions that are irrelevant to the public interest of broadband deployment are ineligible for the drawing.
Anyone who is unable to attend the International Summit for Community Wireless Networks is ineligible for the First and Second prizes.
Anyone may submit nominations, up to 100 nominations, but only the first 25 from any one person will be included in the random drawing.
Staff and contractors of The Ethos Group, The CUWIN Foundation, and The Acorn Active Media Foundation are not eligible to win prizes.
Anyone deemed by The Ethos Group to be acting contrary to the spirit of the contest will be disqualified.
The Ethos Group reserves the right to edit and distribute new original content that is generated through the contest under the a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. This does not include personal information. Previously copyrighted material will be respected, but may be selectively used in accordance with "fair use."
Personal information will not be sold, shared, or published without additional express permission.
All decisions by The Ethos Group are final.
