@ Blue Crypto: have both a major open section and a Young Inventors.section. People always do better work on things they are more interested in. Benefactor organises Open; V500, Young Inventors.
We've already concluded it might be best if there wouldn't even be a 2nd place or 3rd place prize, just winner-take-all. (This year) We will just focus on a single prize, a single contest. This will also help to reduce the webmaster workload. Speaking of which....
Neither V500 nor I know how to run a website as webmaster. We really, really, really need someone to volunteer to make a website for this project and update it until the award is given on October 18th.
I would be taking nominee info, summarizing it, assigning an UNO voting address, and forwarding this data to the webmaster. The website is simple (I think). Just the list with a summary of each nominee, the associated UNO address, and then preferably self-updating with the most-voted-for nominees up top. I would probably feed new nominees to the webmaster almost daily.
We would start a new thread on bitcointalk, here, for the project, and nominees could be suggested on there, although don't wait - suggest away!!! (I'm looking for 10 nominees up front to feed data to our currently-absent webmaster, and only have 1 so far.)
Please HELP to find us a webmaster who can host this project.