The Gnome Foundation recently announced the Community Engagement Challenge, in which people are supposed to come up with proposals for ways in which we can increase participation in open-source across the board and bring in new contributors from populations that have so far not been frequently, well, contributing.

You can win up to $21,000 (United States Dollars) for the first place winner, and there are money prizes for those who don’t make it as far.

It will have three phases:

1. Idea: Written proposal with entry description and team background
2. Proof of Concept: Basic prototype to demonstrate feasibility
3. Sample Product: Deliverable end product demonstrating program goals

If you want to learn more about it, then you should head over to https://www.gnome.org/challenge/.

Now, what sort of ways would you envision using elixir to do something in the challenge?