Second thought: wait, is this just an essay contest?
The goal was to engage a broad community (read: MBAs :-) ... but also energy professionals/researchers that can't necessarily code). But we're hoping to fire up the dev/designer community in Contests #2-4. We've already seen some awesome ideas submitted, so we're hoping this model works well.
Source: I'm currently an Innovation Fellow detailed to the Department of Energy working on Open Data. Hope you all submit an idea!
Your job would be to improve the processes, and/or solve the issues.
It wouldn't cost that much (the price of healthcare.gov website + a couple of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters), and would gear the nation towards entrepreneurship, a specialists workforce (not a replaceable unit workforce), and growth of startups.
And it would make the gov seem more rational and human.
Check it out: https://rfpez.sba.gov/
Also, why would one need to "provide a link to an image of your best work"? That seems very contrary to the point of procurement - especially given that so little of the opportunities are for actual design work. Furthermore, how does one link to work performed on an intranet, etc. (as most government work is)?
Seems like it needs to be thought out a little better. Is the "best work" link part of the selection criteria? How does this work with FAR requirements or simplify the RFP/RFQ process?
We aren't doing anything with public data but this is giving me some good ideas.
If you are a foreign hacker in US on TN or H1B or something like that, don't bother.
That’s not hard.
Go clutter up the next "Who's hiring" thread.
Edit: the little robot is adorable, though.
