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

Post by 100ideas » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 5:11 PM UTC

Post by jonpierce » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 5:51 PM UTC

seldo wrote: post #3

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

Post by noelchurchill » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 6:00 PM UTC

vlad wrote: post #5

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!

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…

Post by ivankirigin » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 6:04 PM UTC

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...

  def index( request ): 
    return HttpResponse('yes, damn it')

Post by myblake » Thu, Jul 02, 2009, 6:17 PM UTC

vegashacker wrote: post #9

I think this parenthetical is a typo: (> ~500 words for you precisionists)