[Noisebridge-discuss] Thiel grant ideas

[Christoph Maier]

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Carl <carl at icarp.info> wrote:
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> I like the idea of taking this $10K grant and doing something neat with
> it.
>
> How about a contest?  We could ask Noisebridgers' to submit 1-2 page
> proposals for projects to work on, then ask the community to vote on the
> best project.

As much as I love the idea of Peter Thiel's representative trying to
throw money at noisebridge,
I would absolutely HATE a spirit of competing for resources getting
introduced to noisebridge.

So I would propose to put together a list of need-to-have and
nice-to-have laboratory equipment
which is useful for a long time and for many projects that $10k could buy,
instead of getting lured into the competitiveness-is-a-virtue-in-itself mindset.

Greetings from Gert's Gulch in Telluride,
Christoph

> Some questions to answer in the proposal could include:
> * Describe your project idea.
> * How would your project benefit Noisebridge and/or the larger hacker
> community?
> * Please describe how you'd use the funds.
> etc...
>
> On a specified day all proposals are to be posted to the discuss list,
> then Noisebridge members may have a week to vote on their favorite
> proposal.  We'll want to set up a voting procedure.  It could work
> similarly to what we did when voting for board membership.
>
> We could see a neat collaborative project come out of this!
>
> -Carl
>