Rules and Guidelines

Eligibility

The Challenge is open to individuals over the age of 18, groups of individuals, non-for-profit organizations, other non-commercial organizations, commercial organizations, and government organizations. Participants from US and non US-countries are eligible to participate.  Entries submitted by groups must identify one point person over the age of 18 to be contacted by Social Actions for technical and administrative issues. This person should appear first on the submission form.

Additional Information

Organizers of the Challenge reserve the right to solely determine eligibility for the reasons stated herein or on any other reasonable basis. Those who do submit in violation of the eligibility rules will have their submission removed. The twenty-featured projects may be asked for additional information before being selected winner or runner-up. All winners will be appropriately evaluated by Social Actions to ensure that they are eligible. Social Actions reserves the right to, upon proper notification to all participants, change the rules of the Challenge or suspend the Challenge in the case of unforeseen circumstances. All decisions made by SocialActions regarding winners and prize compensation are final.

Functionality

All submissions to the Change the Web Challenge must be fully functional web applications in order to be considered for prizes.  Embedded or linked to applications must have core functionality before community voting commences in April 2009.

Social Actions API

All submissions to the Change the Web Challenge must take advantage of, in part or whole, the Social Actions API, an open database of 60,000+ actions from over 40 action sources.

IP Protections

All submissions to the Change the Web Challenge must use an open source license to be considered for prizes.  Title to all property, including intellectual property, shall vest in the grantee.