{"id":15751,"date":"2011-12-08T20:02:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T02:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=15751"},"modified":"2011-12-08T20:02:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T02:02:47","slug":"the-rootstech-2012-developer-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=15751","title":{"rendered":"The RootsTech 2012 Developer Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following announcement was received from RootsTech 2012.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Solve a Family History Challege and Win $5,000!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you recently been doing something family or genealogy-related and thought, &#8220;There should be an app for that!&#8221;? Now is your chance. Solving that problem and entering the <a href=\"http:\/\/rootstech.familysearch.org\/challenges\/overview\">RootsTech 2012 Developer Challenge<\/a> could earn you $5,000.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of millions of people around the world are interested in some facet of family history. These people need software solutions\u2014whether on the desktop, online, or through mobile delivery\u2014that help them engage and succeed in their efforts to discover, preserve, and share their family history.  RootsTech will reward developers who introduce the most innovative new concepts to family history with $10,000 in cash rewards and increased visibility. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rootstech.familysearch.org\/challenges\/overview\">Visit the Developer Challenge page<\/a> on RootsTech.org to find out more about <a href=\"http:\/\/rootstech.familysearch.org\/challenges\/rules\">rules<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/rootstech.familysearch.org\/challenges\/rules\">prizes<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/rootstech.familysearch.org\/challenges\/deadlines\">deadlines<\/a>.  Developers wishing to enter the challenge <a href=\"http:\/\/rootstech.familysearch.org\/challenges\/new\">must register by January 1, 2012<\/a> but actual submissions are not due until January 15.  Spread the word and <a href=\"http:\/\/rootstech.familysearch.org\/challenges\/new\">register today!<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following announcement was received from RootsTech 2012. Solve a Family History Challege and Win $5,000! Have you recently been doing something family or genealogy-related and thought, &#8220;There should be an app for that!&#8221;? Now is your chance. Solving that <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=15751\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  The RootsTech 2012 Developer Challenge<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rootstech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15753,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15751\/revisions\/15753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}