The Awesome Foundation: $1K grants every month in the name of awesomeness (opens in new tab)

someone from boston should also make a microsite, is_it_raining_in_boston.com

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    return HttpResponse('yes, damn it')

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 cool people who were "guests".

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

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

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?

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 :)

Good call, I'll fix it.

Also just a warning the site seems to be under a bunch of load right now :-( We'll be keeping an eye on it, but sorry in advance if you can't get through.

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.

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Huh?

really? what's wrong with it?

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

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.

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

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?