Thanks to the News Challenge winner Lisa Williams of Placeblogger and the Berkman Blog Group for a great Boston meetup last night where we talked about the history of the News Challenge (the $5MM yearly contest to find innovative digital delivery ideas), thia Garage site for working through ideas before applying, how mentoring in the Garage works, and brainstorming ideas for this year’s contest.

Next Thursday, we’ll host meetups in Austin and we’ll also be at the Maker Faire during the weekend. After that, we’ll talk in San Francisco (Facebook invite). We look forward to meeting you then–

Remember that the News Challenge contest closes November 1st.

You must apply from the NewsChallenge.org site even if your project information is here in the Garage.

Questions? Let us know in the comments below.

p.s. We are really excited about your comments on other proposals, and we hope to see more projects working together to improve their ideas in these final weeks--

-Kristen