The Awesome Foundation: $1K grants every month in the name of awesomeness • Hacker News Board

Re: The Awesome Foundation: $1K grants every month in the name of awesomeness

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Post by vlad » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 6:18 PM UTC

noelchurchill wrote: post #6

vlad wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are pooling their money together to entice smart, creative individuals of their choice to spend one month each at their coworking office by giving them recognition and paying them $1,000 to be there. This will be a great way to meet and learn from such people who they might not ever hear about or meet otherwise, never-mind work alongside for a month. It also gives the house some publicity as well as a list of co…

How is it not helpful or useful??

It was his first (or second) post on News.YC, and it seemed sarcastic. (I've removed the first sentence of my paragraph.)

Re: The Awesome Foundation: $1K grants every month in the name of awesomeness

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Post by pierattt » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 6:18 PM UTC

What's not clear to me is if the $1000 is actually supposed to help fund the Awesomeness, or if it's basically just intended as a reward for doing something Awesome. For instance, should submitted ideas be confined to something achievable within that budget? I assume not, but the whole thing could use a bit more clarity.

Re: The Awesome Foundation: $1K grants every month in the name of awesomeness

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Post by jonpierce » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 6:24 PM UTC

pierattt wrote: post #12

What's not clear to me is if the $1000 is actually supposed to help fund the Awesomeness, or if it's basically just intended as a reward for doing something Awesome. For instance, should submitted ideas be confined to something achievable within that budget? I assume not, but the whole thing could use a bit more clarity.

Either. We're keeping the whole thing rather open ended, at least to start. That said, we're happy to answer any questions and we'll add a FAQ to the site sometime soon. Also, for those in the Boston area, we'll host an information session at BetaHouse in a couple weeks.

Re: The Awesome Foundation: $1K grants every month in the name of awesomeness

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Post by Klonoar » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 6:29 PM UTC

The source code for that page is most definitely not awesome. :(

Re: The Awesome Foundation: $1K grants every month in the name of awesomeness

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Post by kirubakaran » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 6:31 PM UTC

jonpierce wrote: post #4

seldo wrote: post #3

How are they funding this? Is everybody just chipping in $100 a month?

Yup. Individual contributions of $100 a month pooled together.

How do I get in on the contributing group? [kirubakaran@gmail.com]

Re: The Awesome Foundation: $1K grants every month in the name of awesomeness

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Post by pierattt » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 6:35 PM UTC

jonpierce wrote: post #13

pierattt wrote: post #12

What's not clear to me is if the $1000 is actually supposed to help fund the Awesomeness, or if it's basically just intended as a reward for doing something Awesome. For instance, should submitted ideas be confined to something achievable within that budget? I assume not, but the whole thing could use a bit more clarity.

Either. We're keeping the whole thing rather open ended, at least to start. That said, we're happy to answer any questions and we'll add a FAQ to the site sometime soon. Also, for those in the Boston area, we'll host an information session at BetaHouse in a couple weeks.

I can say that if this had the double-intention of functioning as marketing for Betahouse, it definitely worked on me. I have every intention of keeping track of your events, etc, from here on out.

Re: The Awesome Foundation: $1K grants every month in the name of awesomeness

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Post by axod » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 6:35 PM UTC

Seems like a great way to get people to give you tons of ideas on what to do yourself ;)

I'm not saying this is what's happening here of course...

Re: The Awesome Foundation: $1K grants every month in the name of awesomeness

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Post by mcantor » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 6:42 PM UTC

vlad wrote: post #11

noelchurchill wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is it not helpful or useful??

It was his first (or second) post on News.YC, and it seemed sarcastic. (I've removed the first sentence of my paragraph.)

The kicker here is that OP of this thread appears to be Mac Cowell, one of the Awesome Foundation members. http://awesomefoundation.org/controls/whois

Re: The Awesome Foundation: $1K grants every month in the name of awesomeness

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Post by myblake » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 6:49 PM UTC

Klonoar wrote: post #14

The source code for that page is most definitely not awesome. :(

As the author of said source I certainly agree, I put it together in about an hour. If you're referring to the fact it was running super slow for a bit that had more to do with overall just not anticipating how good my colleagues are at publicity, dreamhost shared servers, and some environment settings.

Re: The Awesome Foundation: $1K grants every month in the name of awesomeness

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Post by tibbon » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 6:55 PM UTC

pierattt wrote: post #16

jonpierce wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Either. We're keeping the whole thing rather open ended, at least to start. That said, we're happy to answer any questions and we'll add a FAQ to the site sometime soon. Also, for those in the Boston area, we'll host an information session at BetaHouse in a couple weeks.

I can say that if this had the double-intention of functioning as marketing for Betahouse, it definitely worked on me. I have every intention of keeping track of your events, etc, from here on out.

Oh god! We're being watched now :)