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 tibbon » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 6:56 PM UTC

kirubakaran wrote: post #15

jonpierce wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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

We're (currently) at a fixed number, BUT we are hoping that other people soon spin off their own Awesome Foundations (in a barcamp like manner). We'll be in touch though soon.

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

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Post by mpc » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 6:57 PM UTC

Klonoar wrote: post #14

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

really? what's wrong with it?

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

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Post by lars » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 7:00 PM UTC

Klonoar wrote: post #14

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

pagehtml.replace(RegExp(/\/,g), 'bigfatmonkeydick');

Huh?

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

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Post by myblake » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 7:01 PM UTC

lars wrote: post #23

Klonoar wrote: post #14

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

pagehtml.replace(RegExp(/\ /,g), 'bigfatmonkeydick'); Huh?

gotta love easter eggs right? to be fair that function isn't called.

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

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Post by ggruschow » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 7:04 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.

Me too. Donate button please. If you've got a 501(c)(3), even better.

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

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Post by tibbon » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 7:06 PM UTC

axod wrote: post #17

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...

Believe me, we're all far too busy to do our own ideas, let alone anyone else's. In fact if anyone wants to take stuff off my plate, please do :)

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

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Post by TrevorJ » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 7:28 PM UTC

I like the idea a lot. The font however, hurts my eyes.

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

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Post by Tichy » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 7:39 PM UTC

100ideas wrote: post #2

I would use $1000 to purchase lab reagents and host a class teaching participants how to sequence a short segment of their choice from their own genome - for free!

Why not just run that class and ask participants to pay? I would gladly pay for such a class.

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

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Post by davidnunez » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 8:21 PM UTC

axod wrote: post #17

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...

believe me, we don't want ownership over any of the ideas. we're also aware that "no-strings-attached" often is not, so I'll grant you that this may all seem rather suspicious. Honestly, I hope people get fabulously happy and can quit the day job off of the $1000 we're handing over. Doing that for somebody is my ROI. But even if all it does is lower the activation energy required for somebody to get off his/her ass and do something awesome or encourage already awesome people to keep going, I think we all win. We could use a little more unfettered joy around us, don't you think?

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

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Post by jmonegro » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 8:25 PM UTC

Could this be a way of taking ideas? Sounds a bit sketchy to me... specially since the domain is registered to an individual, and not a group/foundation...