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

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

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Post by DanielBMarkham »

davidnunez wrote: post #29
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 a…

I think this is a great idea, and if I could I'd support a 5K and 10K grant for more complex projects.

Something I have noticed: people tend to do better under a little pressure.

So if you could have some kind of requirements, like regular emails, submitting a video of your work, or an online interview at the end, you might get better results.

Just a thought. Good luck with this!

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

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Post by iheartmemcache »

jmonegro wrote: post #30

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...

The Board of Trustees has a few people who are affiliated with reputable organizations (BetaHouse, Microsoft, etc). Seems legitimate to me.

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

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Post by rms »

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!

I would sell a kick ass PCR lab for 3500 if anyone is interested...

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

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Post by ddemchuk »

This seems like an interesting way to create a sort of "rolling YCombinator" if there was a little bit more money being tossed around. Say maybe giving out $3-5000 each month, creating 12 new business opportunities a year, each one launching in a somewhat timed fashion in sync with the others from other months.

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

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Post by mahmud »

ivankirigin wrote: post #8
100ideas wrote: post #7

Someone from boston should submit a proposal to manually curate the MBTA's scheduling information and produce a version in Google Transit Feed Spec: http://code.google.com/transit/spec/transit_feed_specificati...

someone from boston should also make a microsite, is_it_raining_in_boston.com def index( request ): return HttpResponse('yes, damn it')

in Arc

(dfn indx (rqst) (rspns t))

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

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Post by eob »

ivankirigin wrote: post #8
100ideas wrote: post #7

Someone from boston should submit a proposal to manually curate the MBTA's scheduling information and produce a version in Google Transit Feed Spec: http://code.google.com/transit/spec/transit_feed_specificati...

someone from boston should also make a microsite, is_it_raining_in_boston.com def index( request ): return HttpResponse('yes, damn it')

Seriously. And why is it still 60 degrees.

My awesome idea is to move Boston to the Carribean

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

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Post by sanswork »

mahmud wrote: post #37
ivankirigin wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

someone from boston should also make a microsite, is_it_raining_in_boston.com def index( request ): return HttpResponse('yes, damn it')

in Arc (dfn indx (rqst) (rspns t))

t = 'yes, damn it' in Arc?

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

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Post by pavs »

pavs wrote: post #36

What the hell? http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2422/3682531265_1ea4ddaa78_o....

Ok not sure why I am getting downmodded. But this warning actually pops up with AVG on betahouse.org everytime same with chrome. Anybody from betahouse bothered to check if AVG incorrectly blocking their website and issuing warning?
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