Just wondering, what about kickstarter.com? It has recently reached 3 million dollars for the developing of a particularly niche style of game (point and click adventure). I wonder if people would give the same support for the development of a sugar 1.0.
Eduardo No dia 16 de Março de 2012 13:43, Christoph Derndorfer <e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at> escreveu: > Similarly I just stumbled across the "UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa > Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education" which might also be of interest to > some people/projects here: > http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/online-resources/databases/ict-in-education-database/item/article/icts-in-education-prize-call-for-nominations-6/ > > Cheers, > Christoph > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Manusheel Gupta <m...@laptop.org> wrote: >> >> FYI. Might be useful. >> >> --- >> >> The Motorola Mobility Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Motorola >> Mobility, is accepting applications for the 2012 Empowerment Grants, a >> funding program designed to help United States-based nonprofit organizations >> develop mobile applications and use mobile technology that will help >> transform and benefit the communities they serve. The program addresses four >> areas of focus — education, health and wellness, community, and arts and >> culture. >> Successful applications must demonstrate the ways that digital, mobile, >> and social technology can be used to further a nonprofit organization’s >> mission. Examples include producing a crowd-sourcing site for community >> resource mapping, creating a digital storytelling application that captures >> oral histories of a community, developing a resource for social media use to >> further engage volunteers, and using new ideas of “gamefication in >> education” to engage students. >> >> The total amount of funding for the Empowerment Grants program is >> $500,000; the program will fund approximately twenty grants. The average >> grant size is $25,000. >> >> After March 1, organizations can >> visit www.cybergrants.com/motorolamobility/empowermentgrants >> to apply. >> Visit the Motorola Mobility Foundation Web site for complete program >> information and application >> procedures: http://responsibility.motorola.com/index.php/society/emp >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > > -- > Christoph Derndorfer > > volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at] > editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com] > contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net] > > e-mail: christ...@derndorfer.eu > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
