Are you a data analyst or a developer interested in improving public education in the United States? Submit your ideas and you can get to work with the DonorsChoose.org Hacking Education Competition!

To get a chance to work with DonorsChoose.org you would have to be chosen from the top finishers in each of the seven categories: Data Analysis, Javascript, .Net, PHP, Python, Ruby, Wildcard.

To participate:

Nominations are now open for the fifth annual awarding of the $10,000 Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest, an award aimed at software developers working with nonprofits to help forge innovative social change. The prize welcomes applications from — and nominations of — single individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the field of public interest software. 

Prize criteria:

 HELP US DEVELOP!

Thanks for all of you who took the time to share thoughts about GoSomething yesterday at the first day of N2Y3.

 Now, through several conversations with some of you, we notices some tech interest in helping out, and we need it. Please contact andrea [andrea /at/ gosomething dot org] if you wish to help with database work, screen scraping technology, anything you'd like!

 Thanks!

 The GoSomething team.

Hi, I'm Andrew Turner. I'll be attending the NetSquared conference and I'd like to introduce myself.

I'm the co-founder of Mapufacture, an application that makes it easy to host and share geospatial data and for users to build collaborative maps. I also develop open-source tools for publishing and using geodata, including blog plugins like GeoPress and the Mapstraction mapping library.

We're developing a widget for GreenerOne that will allow members to display how many people they've helped to make a 'green' decision during their purchase.

We need the help of a facebook developer.

We're building out the backend to intergrate with GreenerOne product reviews and need somebody who can help us intergrate the widget on facebook. The widget is pretty straight basic, it's just a dynamic PNG generated when somebody loads a page and has info about the GreenerOne's reviews.

Do you have an idea for a social web tool that can be used for social change? Submit it to Social Innovation Camp, an unconference/Barcamp like event in London April 4-6, 2008 that will bring together idea people, geeks, mentors and sponsors to build social web tools for social change in 48 hours.

To submit your idea for Social Innovation Camp, fill out their submission form and email it to ideas[@]sicamp[dot]org. To see what sort of ideas they are looking for, read their ideas criteria.

Check out Part 1 of this article for tips 1-5!

6 – Enlist Top Technology Bloggers

There are likely a few technology bloggers in your community that many local developers subscribe to and read on a regular basis. Because you have a social change mission, these bloggers may be willing to help you get the word out about your web idea. A featured post about your project could be a huge boost to your campaign to find developers!

(click here for Part 2 of this article)

Do you have an idea for a website or web app that will help raise social awareness, inspire social change, or otherwise make the world a better place? Maybe you have an idea for a facebook application that issues environmental action alerts, a social network that helps connect those who suffer from Parkinson's, or possibly even a Firefox add-on that helps nonprofits fundraise? Whatever your idea, if you're not a coder, you're going to need help!

Chris Locke sent me an interesting link over the holidays to the PayPal Developer Donation Kit. According to the site, the Kit helps developers set up PayPal for nonprofits by providing them with:

• • Integration instructions
• • Marketing materials – PayPal for Non-Profit Fundraising and Non-Profit FAQs
• • Information about PayPal's special offer for nonprofits

Interestingly, there isn't much buzz about this at all online. When I Googled, "PayPal Developer Donation Kit," the only people writing about it was the San Jose Neighborhood Chamber of Commerce. They have a Neighborhood Chamber of Commerce Certified Official Webmaster Community:

Advocacy Developers III Conference

AdvocacyDev III, Oakland, July 31-August 2.   The third convening of organizers, activists and developers working with open source tools for online advocacy and organizing will take place in Oakland from July 31 to August 2. If you're passionate about creating better tools for online activists and organizers, please join us for knowledge sharing and brainstorming!