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2012-08-03T00:26:12Z

Willowbl00: I like to edit in incriments, it makes me feel more productive.

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Welcome to the Awesome Summit wiki! This is where we will be documenting the [http://blog.awesomefoundation.org/2012/04/23/awesome-summit-2012-its-coming/ 2012 Awesome Summit].

Want to see who was in attendance? Check the opt-in [[attendees (2012)|attendee list]].

== [http://wiki.awesomestudies.org/index.php?title=Category:Summit_2012 2012 Session Schedule and Notes]==

== Sessions by topic ==
* [[:category:About the AF|About the AF]]: Everything pertaining to the then and now of the Awesome Foundation.
* [[:category:IHAS|IHAS]]: The Institute on Higher Awesome Studies.
* [[:category:Meta|Meta]]: The current state of affairs for alternative philanthropy and the AF.
* [[:category:Operations|Operations]]: Everything you need to know to run a successful chapter.
* [[:category:Summit 2013|Summit 2013]]: Looking towards next year's summit.
* [[:category:Tools|Tools]]: Shared materials for chapters.

To see all categories, go to [[Special:categories]].

== Other documentation ==
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/davefishernc/sets/72157630715631774/ Pictures from Dave Fisher (Columbus)]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcn/sets/72157630696187794/ Pictures from Jesse Chan-Norris (NYC)]
* [http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=84979541@N00&q=%23awesummit Pictures from Lee-Sean Huang (NYC)]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/regtiangha/sets/72157630740103892/ Pictures from Reg Tiangha (Calgary)]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157630740554460/ Pictures from Mitch Altman (SF)]
* [http://prezi.com/aeh3pevn5g8p/meta-awesome-foundation-pitches/ Prezi of Metapitches by Willow Brugh (Seattle)]

== Getting started ==
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Grantee support

2012-08-03T00:24:17Z

Willowbl00: linked to external session

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You can also find the external session on [[Giving More Than Money]].
== Should we help? ==
* Every chapter makes their own choices
* Balance between no strings and helping people out
** Don't want to build expectations
* It builds more structures, how does it look and how do you execute on that is a concern
* In the long view you can create a portal where people (media, for example) will know to go look to for information
* Sometimes the bar for choosing an application is set very high
** The $1000 can act as a catalyst, take care of phase 1, but project might require more after that
** Grantees often seem to need access to more people, more resources, people turn to Kickstarter and Indiegogo
** Keep in mind that $1000 is a catalyst
* It goes on a chapter by chapter basis
* Erhardt: I keep thinking of this as a data problem, if we could expose the data about the projects other people could go through and look at the ideas, create a resource of awesome ideas
* We already blog and talk about them, publish information on them - maybe we could set up aggregation of that to spread the good projects

* If we signal that we are becoming an incubator, is that going to crowd out things that are one-time events
** Keep it optional
** Yes, but we have to walk that line gently
* Keep it simple, "we're not the f*cking Ford Foundation"
** If people don't want or need to be incubated, don't do that

== Things we do already ==
* Using trustees and past winners as a resource for grantees
** Grantee-alumni relationships and mentoring
** People are always super excited to do that, past grantees have always opted-in
* AF NY has had people opt-in to stay connected, but other people just disappear

* A lot of grantees aren't as tech-savvy as trustees, just telling them about Kickstarter and such is useful

* Is it a good idea to say up front what resources are available? Could it become an obligation?
** Not in SF, "they drive the show", "we're here to help" but they are under no obligation

* Difference between local support and global support
** Adopting ideas from other chapters, if it's easy to re-create or share (so re-creating the results of a past project from another chapter)

* Toronto does a lot of networking and peer-to-peer connections

* Managing our involvement
** Toronto, for example, doesn't want to overburden themselves
** Seattle does it on an opt-in, one trustee does it for each grant, basis to provide support that is tailored to the project while keeping the burden on trustees low

=== Alternative practices ===
* Does anyone do a thing where they select a runner-up and work with them in some way?
** In Boston, there is a shortlist every month and often times there is a person who just needs a connection or a Kickstarter or something
** SF does the same
* Give them feedback, advice, connections

* Spreading ideas from other places, looking at other chapters
** SF finds inspiring projects from the general world and passes them around the list

* Does anyone give advice or guidance/feedback to ideas?
** Is it right to tell them how to change their ideas?
** Difference between manipulating projects and trying to give useful feedback
** Does that make people feel obligated to do things?
* Difference between doing this with grantees vs. people who don't get funded
* The feedback can be really helpful to people
* There is a big difference between sharing the opinions of an individual vs. sharing opinions as a chapter

== Things grantees might need ==
* Timing is an issue too - support/engagement during project vs. help afterwards
* Coaching on ideas/communication
* Connecting people to a network
* Global network of recipients, could make it an even bigger opportunity than $1000
* Initially in NY, just helped by throwing a big party and trying to get press for people with good ideas
** $1000 is great, but trustees' connections can be a much bigger contribution
* Pittsburgh added a question asking if it would be ok to promote a project, even if not funded, or refer to other organizations
** So far everyone says yes

== Ideas ==
* An aggregation of "projects we love" a la Kickstarter
** Boston has a tumblr of awesome projects, could become a collaborative project between chapters
** People like this
** Erhardt will own looking into this
* What if trustees could "like" projects on the AF site and go through periodically and highlight the top choices?

* Sending out a template to winner and runners up with information and resources and connections to network
** If we take it upon ourselves, we may lapse

* International awesome hours
* Facebook group for grantees

* Awesome event calendar

=== Awesome Hours ===
* Not everyone is tech-savvy, we should think more about how to support people especially with more chapters starting in developing areas
* Awesome Hours might be a really good solution to this
** Boston has these, just gets together and helps people workshop ideas
** Past winners have come as well, which is nice
** Seattle wants to start doing these
** Important to keep a friendly, open environment
* Overall people think Awesome Hours has the potential to grow into something really big
* This is ''community'' and helps ideas grow and spread, then we just have to be catalysts

=== Grantee Contracts ===
* Generally, chapters do not use contracts in the spirit of "no strings attached" giving
* Prefer personal support of/enabling grantees to ensure that grantees follow-through or at least feel comfortable reaching out for help or guidance
** Halifax - "Our approach has been to offer as much support as possible (media/social media/manpower) to break down any barriers to a given activity happening, and in the process, almost ensuring it happens due to the number of folks involved. We also try to have the winner carry out the activity within two months of the grant cash being awarded."
** Boston - "For the most part, people who receive support and validation will do BACK FLIPS to deliver. I think that for most of us, the risk and mystery of it all is part what makes things so fun. (Will they? Won't they? What will the end result look like?) If you go into deliberation with a spirit of trust, the fun of the process takes over and the results produced are much better than any contract could define."
** Ottawa - "Like others who have weighed in, I believe the "no strings attached" is a core element of the model. We even go as far in Ottawa as to restrain ourselves from suggesting to recipients that their projects might be "even better if…" -- although we do offer whatever support we can to help them deliver." Only one of 24 grants has ever "run off into the sunset with the cash"

=== Liaison/Storyteller Approach ===
* Model utilized by Seattle Chapter

* Whichever trustee is most excited about a chosen project becomes the point of contact for that grantee. They inform the grantee of their award, interview them and write a short blog post for the announcement and are generally helpful (but not overbearing) with mentorship and connections to other resources.

* We believe this personal touch adds to the accountability one would want from a contract. I hope we will do post-project interviews in the future as a way to guage and share our impact. To be clear, this isn't the grantee reporting to us. Rather, we are taking the responsibility and making the effort to share their stories. In this way, what is "reporting" in traditional grantmaking becomes an additional service we are providing that helps build the relationship.

== Willow's notes ==
Most conversation fell into topics of:
*Continued engagement
*Connecting to more than just winners
*Cross pollination across and within chapters
*Promotion of projects and individuals via the chapter
*Providing mentorship and connections
*Encouraging propagation of instructions for creation

[http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8434/7623606002_564f503c25.jpg Image]

[[category:Sunday]]
[[category:Operations]]

Main Page

2012-08-03T00:22:03Z

Willowbl00: fomatting

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Welcome to the Awesome Summit wiki! This is where we will be documenting the [http://blog.awesomefoundation.org/2012/04/23/awesome-summit-2012-its-coming/ 2012 Awesome Summit].

Check the [[Schedule (2012)|schedule]] to see what sessions will be taking place!

Want to see who is in attendance? Check the opt-in [[attendees (2012)|attendee list]].

== [http://wiki.awesomestudies.org/index.php?title=Category:Summit_2012 2012 Session Schedule and Notes]==

== Sessions by topic ==
* [[:category:About the AF|About the AF]]: Everything pertaining to the then and now of the Awesome Foundation.
* [[:category:IHAS|IHAS]]: The Institute on Higher Awesome Studies.
* [[:category:Meta|Meta]]: The current state of affairs for alternative philanthropy and the AF.
* [[:category:Operations|Operations]]: Everything you need to know to run a successful chapter.
* [[:category:Summit 2013|Summit 2013]]: Looking towards next year's summit.
* [[:category:Tools|Tools]]: Shared materials for chapters.

To see all categories, go to [[Special:categories]].

== Other documentation ==
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/davefishernc/sets/72157630715631774/ Pictures from Dave Fisher (Columbus)]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcn/sets/72157630696187794/ Pictures from Jesse Chan-Norris (NYC)]
* [http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=84979541@N00&q=%23awesummit Pictures from Lee-Sean Huang (NYC)]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/regtiangha/sets/72157630740103892/ Pictures from Reg Tiangha (Calgary)]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157630740554460/ Pictures from Mitch Altman (SF)]
* [http://prezi.com/aeh3pevn5g8p/meta-awesome-foundation-pitches/ Prezi of Metapitches by Willow Brugh (Seattle)]

== Getting started ==
Consult the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software.

* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list]
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ]
* [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce MediaWiki release mailing list]

Main Page

2012-08-03T00:21:47Z

Willowbl00:

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Welcome to the Awesome Summit wiki! This is where we will be documenting the [http://blog.awesomefoundation.org/2012/04/23/awesome-summit-2012-its-coming/ 2012 Awesome Summit].

Check the [[Schedule (2012)|schedule]] to see what sessions will be taking place!

Want to see who is in attendance? Check the opt-in [[attendees (2012)|attendee list]].

== [http://wiki.awesomestudies.org/index.php?title=Category:Summit_2012 2012 Session Schedule and Notes]

== Sessions by topic ==
* [[:category:About the AF|About the AF]]: Everything pertaining to the then and now of the Awesome Foundation.
* [[:category:IHAS|IHAS]]: The Institute on Higher Awesome Studies.
* [[:category:Meta|Meta]]: The current state of affairs for alternative philanthropy and the AF.
* [[:category:Operations|Operations]]: Everything you need to know to run a successful chapter.
* [[:category:Summit 2013|Summit 2013]]: Looking towards next year's summit.
* [[:category:Tools|Tools]]: Shared materials for chapters.

To see all categories, go to [[Special:categories]].

== Other documentation ==
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/davefishernc/sets/72157630715631774/ Pictures from Dave Fisher (Columbus)]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcn/sets/72157630696187794/ Pictures from Jesse Chan-Norris (NYC)]
* [http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=84979541@N00&q=%23awesummit Pictures from Lee-Sean Huang (NYC)]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/regtiangha/sets/72157630740103892/ Pictures from Reg Tiangha (Calgary)]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/sets/72157630740554460/ Pictures from Mitch Altman (SF)]
* [http://prezi.com/aeh3pevn5g8p/meta-awesome-foundation-pitches/ Prezi of Metapitches by Willow Brugh (Seattle)]

== Getting started ==
Consult the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software.

* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list]
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ]
* [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce MediaWiki release mailing list]

Trustee engagement

2012-08-03T00:17:42Z

Willowbl00: Added willownotes

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How do we keep our trustees excited and engaged?

== General Protips ==

* Meeting with grant winners engages trustees and connects them to the projects they're funding.
* Regular structure with people signed on to it makes people more likely to be able to attend.
* Food collects money in $300 chunks to make operations roll smoother, given their virtual distributed nature.
* Having entertaining, unique events means more people continually attend.
* Celebrating "wins" leads to continued engagement.
* Previous winner sits in on next round, votes

== On Group Size ==

* Boston has 26 members, so about 10-14 show up each time and vote on two grants.
* Halifax has 30 members, and does three cycles (first and finalist selection, judging a live event, one set off) with 10 people, so everyone plays a role somewhere in the funnel
* Bigger org makes closeness in a big group harder. You become a bit more of a blob and a bit less of a "team"
* Bigger group means lower commitment, less connection. Balance!

== On Group Harmony ==

* In SF, forming personal relationships between the trustees has helped sustain things.
* In Pittsburgh, meetings are very inefficient, because they're basically social events. Wine, beer, and food slow down the voting, in a good way :) No virtual call ins allowed.
* Food is virtual, so people don't know each other irl, but still has lively discussions.
* Setting norms and getting new people in, they know what they're signing up for leads to better cohesion with new members.

== On New Blood ==

* Boston let about 10 people in at once. It may have "saved the chapter."
* New York had a big turnover at once, as the original trustees got too busy or too famous. Bringing in new blood changed the culture and established new norms.
* Set norms with the active people, then invite more people to 'soft replace' the flakier people.
* More people spreads responsibility, gets you more money to utilize.
* Guest / Honorary trustees (like the mayor!) are a good source of fresh excitement.
* New people give busy people the opp to back out gracefully since they're not letting people down.

== On Ideological Splits ==

* Major split seems to be between "silent awesome" and "go for famo."
* Detroit once reconvened to overturn a grant because one trustee decided the selected project didn't set the right tone for the group. Don't be afraid to speak up after decisions are made. Be diplomatic and sensitive when communicating like this.

[[category:Summit 2012]]
[[category:Operations]]

Trustee engagement

2012-08-03T00:08:04Z

Willowbl00: /* On Group Size */ added willownotes

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How do we keep our trustees excited and engaged?

== Notes from Greg ==

Breaking this into major themes I see.

=== General Protips ===

* Meeting with grant winners engages trustees and connects them to the projects they're funding.
* Regular structure with people signed on to it makes people more likely to be able to attend.
* Food collects money in $300 chunks to make operations roll smoother, given their virtual distributed nature

=== On Group Size ===

* Boston has 26 members, so about 10-14 show up each time and vote on two grants.
* Halifax has 30 members, and does three cycles (first and finalist selection, judging a live event, one set off) with 10 people, so everyone plays a role somewhere in the funnel
* Bigger org makes closeness in a big group harder. You become a bit more of a blob and a bit less of a "team"
* Bigger group means lower commitment, less connection. Balance!

=== On Group Harmony ===

* In SF, forming personal relationships between the trustees has helped sustain things
* In Pittsburgh, meetings are very inefficient, because they're basically social events. Wine, beer, and food slow down the voting, in a good way :) No virtual call ins allowed
* Food is virtual, so people don't know each other irl, but still has lively discussions.

=== On New Blood ===

* Boston let about 10 people in at once. It may have "saved the chapter"
* New York had a big turnover at once, as the original trustees got too busy or too famous. Bringing in new blood changed the culture and established new norms
* Set norms with the active people, then invite more people to 'soft replace' the flakier people
* More people spreads responsibility, gets you more money to utilize
* Guest / Honorary trustees (like the mayor!) are a good source of fresh excitement
* New people give busy people the opp to back out gracefully since they're not letting people down

=== On Ideological Splits ===

* Major split seems to be between "silent awesome" and "go for famo"
* Detroit once reconvened to overturn a grant because one trustee decided the selected project didn't set the right tone for the group. Don't be afraid to speak up after decisions are made. Be diplomatic and sensitive when communicating like this.

[[category:Saturday]]
[[category:Operations]]

Category:Summit 2012

2012-08-02T23:54:45Z

Willowbl00:

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The 2012 Awesome Summit consists of a 2 day [http://proximate.ly/awesome_summit_2012_assemble internal summit] and a 1 day [http://proximate.ly/awesome_summit_2012_connect external event].

== Saturday ==
=== Opening remarks ===

This is the third birthday of the Awesome Foundation. It's like "a sperm donor family reunion" - everyone is loosely connected. Why are we here? To get together, meet each other, make new friends, and make connections across chapters. We also have people from all five continents!

What are we going to do? We don't have rules. If something isn't happening and you want it to happen, do it. This includes photography and and live blogging.

=== Saturday Schedule ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Time
! Session
|-
| 9:00am-10:00am || Registration/Mingling (coffee will be served)
|-
| 10:00am-10:15am || [[General sessions#Opening remarks|Opening Remarks/Welcome]]
|-
| 10:15am-11:15am || [[General sessions#Chapter introductions|Chapter Introductions]]
|-
| 11:30am-12:00pm || [[AF origins|Origin Story]]: the founding members tell the history of the group
|-
| 12:00pm-12:30pm || [[State of the Awesome]]
|-
| 12:30pm-1:00pm || [[IHAS|WTF is IHAS]]
|-
| 1:00pm-2:00pm || lunch
|-
| 2:00pm-4:00pm || Working Groups
|-
| || Track 1: [[State of the Awesome]]
|-
| || Track 2: [http://wiki.awesomestudies.org/index.php?title=Category:Press Press Materials]
|-
| || Track 3: [[Summit 2013|Summit Planning 2013]]
|-
| 4:00pm-4:30pm || Break
|-
| 4:30pm-5:15pm || Discussion Groups
|-
| || Track 1: [[Dean Support Group]]
|-
| || Track 2: [[Trustee engagement|More Engaged Trustees]]
|-
| || Track 3: [[Ad-hoc sessions|Open Track]]
|-
| 5:30pm-6:30pm || [[General sessions#Important organizational decisions|Important Organizational Decisions]]
|-
| 7:00pm-??? || Dinner and Drinks
|}

== Sunday ==
=== Summary of discussion groups ===
What got accomplished?

=== Sunday schedule ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Time
! Session
|-
| 10:00am-10:30am || Balloon group portrait
|-
| 10:30am-11:14am || Discussion Groups
|-
| || Track 1: [[Event ideas|Awesome Event Ideas]]
|-
| || Track 2: [[Grantee support|Helping Fellows w/ More than Money]]
|-
| || Track 3: [[Ad-hoc sessions|Open Track]]
|-
| 11:15am-12:00pm || Discussion Groups
|-
| || Track 1: [[Submission quality|Getting Great Submissions]]
|-
| || Track 2: [[Deliberation|Painless Deliberations]]
|-
| || Track 3: [[Ad-hoc sessions|Open Track]]
|-
| 12:00pm-1:00pm || Lunch
|-
| 1:00pm-2:30pm || Working Groups
|-
| || Track 1: [[New chapter materials|New Chapter Orientation]]
|-
| || Track 2: [[Graphics|Graphic Design and Art]]
|-
| || Track 3: [[Website improvements|Website Hacking]]
|-
| 2:30pm-3:30pm || [[General sessions#Summary of discussion groups|Summary of Discussion Groups]]
|-
| 4:00pm-5:00pm || [[Future of awesome|The Future of Awesome]]
|-
| 5:00pm-6:00pm || [[Pitches and Awarding of the Metagrant]]
|-
| TBA || Awesome Boston grant party
|}

== Monday ==
=== Opening remarks ===
* We just celebrated our third birthday
* Super quick intro to the Awesome Foundation
* Christina is sharing that our logo is 8 in webdings
* Sharing last 2 Boston grants as examples
* Sharing most recent grant: Portland's Free the Billboards
* Last 2 days have been Awesome Summit Assemble
* 47 chapters, people from all over the world

==== What makes us Awesome ====
What makes the Awesome Foundation awesome?
# Low barriers to entry, for both applicants and participants
## Trustees aren't philanthropists, don't see themselves that way
## Makes philanthropy accessible
## Easy app for grantees, people who don't think of themselves as grant recipients
## "I don't have an $100,000 idea, but everyone has a $1000 idea"
# P2P giving from one average person to another
## Grant recipients have become trustees, it's interchangeable
# Constant experimentation
## We all innovate on the model
## Unofficial motto: "what's the worst that could happen?"
## Anyone can start an AF, huge amount of biodiversity
# Fun
## It's actually fun to be in the Awesome Foundation

==== IHAS ====
[[IHAS]] is a backend for the Awesome Foundation that allows the AF to maintain its nebulous, loosely organized nature. IHAS does things so that chapters don't have to. Basically, IHAS is [http://c2910532.r32.cf0.rackcdn.com/84779-4f0f896236e5c-large.jpg Kitten Voltron].

==== Awesome Summit: Assemble ====
* 26/45 active chapters
* 4 fledgling chapters
* 5 continents
* We have exactly exponential growth so far
* Most of the time spent in working groups, one of the most productive Christina has ever been to
* Meta-Awesome grant - winner Ponzi Awesome

==== Awesome Summit: Connect ====
Goals:
# Build community
# Cover unique issues
# Build organizational APIs

Spirit of the conference: JFDI (Just .. Do It)

=== Monday sessions ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Time
! Session
|-
| 8:30am-9:00am || Registration
|-
| 9:00am-9:30am || [[General sessions#Opening remarks 2|Welcome and Introductory Remarks]]
|-
| 9:30am-10:30am || [[The Slow Funds Movement]]
|-
| 10:30am-11:30am || [[Lightning Talks]]
|-
| 11:30am-12:30pm || Lunch
|-
| 12:30pm-1:30pm || [[Open branding|Decentralized Organizations and Open Brands]]
|-
| 1:30pm-2:30pm || [[Giving More Than Money]]
|-
| 2:30pm-3:00pm || Break
|-
| 3:00pm-4:00pm || [[The Age of Peak Guilt]]
|-
| 4:00pm-5:00pm || [[Ad-hoc sessions|Attendee-decided sessions]]
|-
| 5:00pm-6:00pm || [[Collaboration, not Calcification]]
|-
| 6:00pm-6:30pm || [[General sessions#Closing remarks|Wrap Up/Closing Remarks]]
|-
| 6:30pm-??? || Cocktails and Dinner off-site
|}

=== Closing remarks ===
Hopefully ending on a high note!

Working Group Summaries

* [[What are we wrong about?]]
* Kickstarter Session
** How do you make the social media explosion happen? Ask at the after-party
* How to bring the Slow Funding to Political Movements
** Lessons from Kickstarter & Awesome Foundation can work as models
* Shout outs to Kara Brickman from AF-Boston, Lori from Civic Media, everyone who live blogged & Erdhart for being the event host

Category:Summit 2012

2012-08-02T23:53:20Z

Willowbl00:

{{TOC right}}

The 2012 Awesome Summit consists of a 2 day [http://proximate.ly/awesome_summit_2012_assemble internal summit] and a 1 day [http://proximate.ly/awesome_summit_2012_connect external event].

== Saturday ==
=== Opening remarks ===

This is the third birthday of the Awesome Foundation. It's like "a sperm donor family reunion" - everyone is loosely connected. Why are we here? To get together, meet each other, make new friends, and make connections across chapters. We also have people from all five continents!

What are we going to do? We don't have rules. If something isn't happening and you want it to happen, do it. This includes photography and and live blogging.

=== Saturday Schedule ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Time
! Session
|-
| 9:00am-10:00am || Registration/Mingling (coffee will be served)
|-
| 10:00am-10:15am || [[General sessions#Opening remarks|Opening Remarks/Welcome]]
|-
| 10:15am-11:15am || [[General sessions#Chapter introductions|Chapter Introductions]]
|-
| 11:30am-12:00pm || [[AF origins|Origin Story]]: the founding members tell the history of the group
|-
| 12:00pm-12:30pm || [[State of the Awesome]]
|-
| 12:30pm-1:00pm || [[IHAS|WTF is IHAS]]
|-
| 1:00pm-2:00pm || lunch
|-
| 2:00pm-4:00pm || Working Groups
|-
| || Track 1: [[State of the Awesome]]
|-
| || Track 2: [http://wiki.awesomestudies.org/index.php?title=Category:Press Press Materials]
|-
| || Track 3: [[Summit 2013|Summit Planning 2013]]
|-
| 4:00pm-4:30pm || Break
|-
| 4:30pm-5:15pm || Discussion Groups
|-
| || Track 1: [[Dean Support Group]]
|-
| || Track 2: [[Trustee engagement|More Engaged Trustees]]
|-
| || Track 3: [[Ad-hoc sessions|Open Track]]
|-
| 5:30pm-6:30pm || [[General sessions#Important organizational decisions|Important Organizational Decisions]]
|-
| 7:00pm-??? || Dinner and Drinks
|}

== Sunday ==
=== Summary of discussion groups ===
What got accomplished?

=== Sunday schedule ===
== Sunday sessions ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Time
! Session
|-
| 10:00am-10:30am || Balloon group portrait
|-
| 10:30am-11:14am || Discussion Groups
|-
| || Track 1: [[Event ideas|Awesome Event Ideas]]
|-
| || Track 2: [[Grantee support|Helping Fellows w/ More than Money]]
|-
| || Track 3: [[Ad-hoc sessions|Open Track]]
|-
| 11:15am-12:00pm || Discussion Groups
|-
| || Track 1: [[Submission quality|Getting Great Submissions]]
|-
| || Track 2: [[Deliberation|Painless Deliberations]]
|-
| || Track 3: [[Ad-hoc sessions|Open Track]]
|-
| 12:00pm-1:00pm || Lunch
|-
| 1:00pm-2:30pm || Working Groups
|-
| || Track 1: [[New chapter materials|New Chapter Orientation]]
|-
| || Track 2: [[Graphics|Graphic Design and Art]]
|-
| || Track 3: [[Website improvements|Website Hacking]]
|-
| 2:30pm-3:30pm || [[General sessions#Summary of discussion groups|Summary of Discussion Groups]]
|-
| 4:00pm-5:00pm || [[Future of awesome|The Future of Awesome]]
|-
| 5:00pm-6:00pm || [[Pitches and Awarding of the Metagrant]]
|-
| TBA || Awesome Boston grant party
|}

== Monday ==
=== Opening remarks ===
* We just celebrated our third birthday
* Super quick intro to the Awesome Foundation
* Christina is sharing that our logo is 8 in webdings
* Sharing last 2 Boston grants as examples
* Sharing most recent grant: Portland's Free the Billboards
* Last 2 days have been Awesome Summit Assemble
* 47 chapters, people from all over the world

==== What makes us Awesome ====
What makes the Awesome Foundation awesome?
# Low barriers to entry, for both applicants and participants
## Trustees aren't philanthropists, don't see themselves that way
## Makes philanthropy accessible
## Easy app for grantees, people who don't think of themselves as grant recipients
## "I don't have an $100,000 idea, but everyone has a $1000 idea"
# P2P giving from one average person to another
## Grant recipients have become trustees, it's interchangeable
# Constant experimentation
## We all innovate on the model
## Unofficial motto: "what's the worst that could happen?"
## Anyone can start an AF, huge amount of biodiversity
# Fun
## It's actually fun to be in the Awesome Foundation

==== IHAS ====
[[IHAS]] is a backend for the Awesome Foundation that allows the AF to maintain its nebulous, loosely organized nature. IHAS does things so that chapters don't have to. Basically, IHAS is [http://c2910532.r32.cf0.rackcdn.com/84779-4f0f896236e5c-large.jpg Kitten Voltron].

==== Awesome Summit: Assemble ====
* 26/45 active chapters
* 4 fledgling chapters
* 5 continents
* We have exactly exponential growth so far
* Most of the time spent in working groups, one of the most productive Christina has ever been to
* Meta-Awesome grant - winner Ponzi Awesome

==== Awesome Summit: Connect ====
Goals:
# Build community
# Cover unique issues
# Build organizational APIs

Spirit of the conference: JFDI (Just .. Do It)

=== Monday sessions ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Time
! Session
|-
| 8:30am-9:00am || Registration
|-
| 9:00am-9:30am || [[General sessions#Opening remarks 2|Welcome and Introductory Remarks]]
|-
| 9:30am-10:30am || [[The Slow Funds Movement]]
|-
| 10:30am-11:30am || [[Lightning Talks]]
|-
| 11:30am-12:30pm || Lunch
|-
| 12:30pm-1:30pm || [[Open branding|Decentralized Organizations and Open Brands]]
|-
| 1:30pm-2:30pm || [[Giving More Than Money]]
|-
| 2:30pm-3:00pm || Break
|-
| 3:00pm-4:00pm || [[The Age of Peak Guilt]]
|-
| 4:00pm-5:00pm || [[Ad-hoc sessions|Attendee-decided sessions]]
|-
| 5:00pm-6:00pm || [[Collaboration, not Calcification]]
|-
| 6:00pm-6:30pm || [[General sessions#Closing remarks|Wrap Up/Closing Remarks]]
|-
| 6:30pm-??? || Cocktails and Dinner off-site
|}

=== Closing remarks ===
Hopefully ending on a high note!

Working Group Summaries

* [[What are we wrong about?]]
* Kickstarter Session
** How do you make the social media explosion happen? Ask at the after-party
* How to bring the Slow Funding to Political Movements
** Lessons from Kickstarter & Awesome Foundation can work as models
* Shout outs to Kara Brickman from AF-Boston, Lori from Civic Media, everyone who live blogged & Erdhart for being the event host

Collaboration, not Calcification

2012-08-02T23:52:55Z

Willowbl00: FTFY

{{TOC right}}

Unless you're a bone.

[[category:Summit 2012]]
[[category:Meta]]

Category:Summit 2012

2012-08-02T23:50:49Z

Willowbl00: Formatting is my arch nemisis.

{{TOC right}}

== Saturday ==
=== Opening remarks ===

This is the third birthday of the Awesome Foundation. It's like "a sperm donor family reunion" - everyone is loosely connected. Why are we here? To get together, meet each other, make new friends, and make connections across chapters. We also have people from all five continents!

What are we going to do? We don't have rules. If something isn't happening and you want it to happen, do it. This includes photography and and live blogging.

=== Saturday Schedule ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Time
! Session
|-
| 9:00am-10:00am || Registration/Mingling (coffee will be served)
|-
| 10:00am-10:15am || [[General sessions#Opening remarks|Opening Remarks/Welcome]]
|-
| 10:15am-11:15am || [[General sessions#Chapter introductions|Chapter Introductions]]
|-
| 11:30am-12:00pm || [[AF origins|Origin Story]]: the founding members tell the history of the group
|-
| 12:00pm-12:30pm || [[State of the Awesome]]
|-
| 12:30pm-1:00pm || [[IHAS|WTF is IHAS]]
|-
| 1:00pm-2:00pm || lunch
|-
| 2:00pm-4:00pm || Working Groups
|-
| || Track 1: [[State of the Awesome]]
|-
| || Track 2: [http://wiki.awesomestudies.org/index.php?title=Category:Press Press Materials]
|-
| || Track 3: [[Summit 2013|Summit Planning 2013]]
|-
| 4:00pm-4:30pm || Break
|-
| 4:30pm-5:15pm || Discussion Groups
|-
| || Track 1: [[Dean Support Group]]
|-
| || Track 2: [[Trustee engagement|More Engaged Trustees]]
|-
| || Track 3: [[Ad-hoc sessions|Open Track]]
|-
| 5:30pm-6:30pm || [[General sessions#Important organizational decisions|Important Organizational Decisions]]
|-
| 7:00pm-??? || Dinner and Drinks
|}

== Sunday ==
=== Summary of discussion groups ===
What got accomplished?

=== Sunday schedule ===
== Sunday sessions ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Time
! Session
|-
| 10:00am-10:30am || Balloon group portrait
|-
| 10:30am-11:14am || Discussion Groups
|-
| || Track 1: [[Event ideas|Awesome Event Ideas]]
|-
| || Track 2: [[Grantee support|Helping Fellows w/ More than Money]]
|-
| || Track 3: [[Ad-hoc sessions|Open Track]]
|-
| 11:15am-12:00pm || Discussion Groups
|-
| || Track 1: [[Submission quality|Getting Great Submissions]]
|-
| || Track 2: [[Deliberation|Painless Deliberations]]
|-
| || Track 3: [[Ad-hoc sessions|Open Track]]
|-
| 12:00pm-1:00pm || Lunch
|-
| 1:00pm-2:30pm || Working Groups
|-
| || Track 1: [[New chapter materials|New Chapter Orientation]]
|-
| || Track 2: [[Graphics|Graphic Design and Art]]
|-
| || Track 3: [[Website improvements|Website Hacking]]
|-
| 2:30pm-3:30pm || [[General sessions#Summary of discussion groups|Summary of Discussion Groups]]
|-
| 4:00pm-5:00pm || [[Future of awesome|The Future of Awesome]]
|-
| 5:00pm-6:00pm || [[Pitches and Awarding of the Metagrant]]
|-
| TBA || Awesome Boston grant party
|}

== Monday ==
=== Opening remarks ===
* We just celebrated our third birthday
* Super quick intro to the Awesome Foundation
* Christina is sharing that our logo is 8 in webdings
* Sharing last 2 Boston grants as examples
* Sharing most recent grant: Portland's Free the Billboards
* Last 2 days have been Awesome Summit Assemble
* 47 chapters, people from all over the world

==== What makes us Awesome ====
What makes the Awesome Foundation awesome?
# Low barriers to entry, for both applicants and participants
## Trustees aren't philanthropists, don't see themselves that way
## Makes philanthropy accessible
## Easy app for grantees, people who don't think of themselves as grant recipients
## "I don't have an $100,000 idea, but everyone has a $1000 idea"
# P2P giving from one average person to another
## Grant recipients have become trustees, it's interchangeable
# Constant experimentation
## We all innovate on the model
## Unofficial motto: "what's the worst that could happen?"
## Anyone can start an AF, huge amount of biodiversity
# Fun
## It's actually fun to be in the Awesome Foundation

==== IHAS ====
[[IHAS]] is a backend for the Awesome Foundation that allows the AF to maintain its nebulous, loosely organized nature. IHAS does things so that chapters don't have to. Basically, IHAS is [http://c2910532.r32.cf0.rackcdn.com/84779-4f0f896236e5c-large.jpg Kitten Voltron].

==== Awesome Summit: Assemble ====
* 26/45 active chapters
* 4 fledgling chapters
* 5 continents
* We have exactly exponential growth so far
* Most of the time spent in working groups, one of the most productive Christina has ever been to
* Meta-Awesome grant - winner Ponzi Awesome

==== Awesome Summit: Connect ====
Goals:
# Build community
# Cover unique issues
# Build organizational APIs

Spirit of the conference: JFDI (Just .. Do It)

=== Monday sessions ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Time
! Session
|-
| 8:30am-9:00am || Registration
|-
| 9:00am-9:30am || [[General sessions#Opening remarks 2|Welcome and Introductory Remarks]]
|-
| 9:30am-10:30am || [[The Slow Funds Movement]]
|-
| 10:30am-11:30am || [[Lightning Talks]]
|-
| 11:30am-12:30pm || Lunch
|-
| 12:30pm-1:30pm || [[Open branding|Decentralized Organizations and Open Brands]]
|-
| 1:30pm-2:30pm || [[Giving More Than Money]]
|-
| 2:30pm-3:00pm || Break
|-
| 3:00pm-4:00pm || [[The Age of Peak Guilt]]
|-
| 4:00pm-5:00pm || [[Ad-hoc sessions|Attendee-decided sessions]]
|-
| 5:00pm-6:00pm || [[Collaboration, not Calcification]]
|-
| 6:00pm-6:30pm || [[General sessions#Closing remarks|Wrap Up/Closing Remarks]]
|-
| 6:30pm-??? || Cocktails and Dinner off-site
|}

=== Closing remarks ===
Hopefully ending on a high note!

Working Group Summaries

* [[What are we wrong about?]]
* Kickstarter Session
** How do you make the social media explosion happen? Ask at the after-party
* How to bring the Slow Funding to Political Movements
** Lessons from Kickstarter & Awesome Foundation can work as models
* Shout outs to Kara Brickman from AF-Boston, Lori from Civic Media, everyone who live blogged & Erdhart for being the event host

Category:Summit 2012

2012-08-02T23:50:05Z

Willowbl00: /* Monday */

{{TOC right}}

== Saturday ==
=== Opening remarks ===

This is the third birthday of the Awesome Foundation. It's like "a sperm donor family reunion" - everyone is loosely connected. Why are we here? To get together, meet each other, make new friends, and make connections across chapters. We also have people from all five continents!

What are we going to do? We don't have rules. If something isn't happening and you want it to happen, do it. This includes photography and and live blogging.

=== Saturday Schedule ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Time
! Session
|-
| 9:00am-10:00am || Registration/Mingling (coffee will be served)
|-
| 10:00am-10:15am || [[General sessions#Opening remarks|Opening Remarks/Welcome]]
|-
| 10:15am-11:15am || [[General sessions#Chapter introductions|Chapter Introductions]]
|-
| 11:30am-12:00pm || [[AF origins|Origin Story]]: the founding members tell the history of the group
|-
| 12:00pm-12:30pm || [[State of the Awesome]]
|-
| 12:30pm-1:00pm || [[IHAS|WTF is IHAS]]
|-
| 1:00pm-2:00pm || lunch
|-
| 2:00pm-4:00pm || Working Groups
|-
| || Track 1: [[State of the Awesome]]
|-
| || Track 2: [http://wiki.awesomestudies.org/index.php?title=Category:Press Press Materials]
|-
| || Track 3: [[Summit 2013|Summit Planning 2013]]
|-
| 4:00pm-4:30pm || Break
|-
| 4:30pm-5:15pm || Discussion Groups
|-
| || Track 1: [[Dean Support Group]]
|-
| || Track 2: [[Trustee engagement|More Engaged Trustees]]
|-
| || Track 3: [[Ad-hoc sessions|Open Track]]
|-
| 5:30pm-6:30pm || [[General sessions#Important organizational decisions|Important Organizational Decisions]]
|-
| 7:00pm-??? || Dinner and Drinks
|}

== Sunday ==
=== Summary of discussion groups ===
What got accomplished?

=== Sunday schedule ===
== Sunday sessions ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Time
! Session
|-
| 10:00am-10:30am || Balloon group portrait
|-
| 10:30am-11:14am || Discussion Groups
|-
| || Track 1: [[Event ideas|Awesome Event Ideas]]
|-
| || Track 2: [[Grantee support|Helping Fellows w/ More than Money]]
|-
| || Track 3: [[Ad-hoc sessions|Open Track]]
|-
| 11:15am-12:00pm || Discussion Groups
|-
| || Track 1: [[Submission quality|Getting Great Submissions]]
|-
| || Track 2: [[Deliberation|Painless Deliberations]]
|-
| || Track 3: [[Ad-hoc sessions|Open Track]]
|-
| 12:00pm-1:00pm || Lunch
|-
| 1:00pm-2:30pm || Working Groups
|-
| || Track 1: [[New chapter materials|New Chapter Orientation]]
|-
| || Track 2: [[Graphics|Graphic Design and Art]]
|-
| || Track 3: [[Website improvements|Website Hacking]]
|-
| 2:30pm-3:30pm || [[General sessions#Summary of discussion groups|Summary of Discussion Groups]]
|-
| 4:00pm-5:00pm || [[Future of awesome|The Future of Awesome]]
|-
| 5:00pm-6:00pm || [[Pitches and Awarding of the Metagrant]]
|-
| TBA || Awesome Boston grant party
|}

== Monday ==
=== Opening remarks ===
* We just celebrated our third birthday
* Super quick intro to the Awesome Foundation
* Christina is sharing that our logo is 8 in webdings
* Sharing last 2 Boston grants as examples
* Sharing most recent grant: Portland's Free the Billboards
* Last 2 days have been Awesome Summit Assemble
* 47 chapters, people from all over the world

==== What makes us Awesome ====
What makes the Awesome Foundation awesome?
# Low barriers to entry, for both applicants and participants
## Trustees aren't philanthropists, don't see themselves that way
## Makes philanthropy accessible
## Easy app for grantees, people who don't think of themselves as grant recipients
## "I don't have an $100,000 idea, but everyone has a $1000 idea"
# P2P giving from one average person to another
## Grant recipients have become trustees, it's interchangeable
# Constant experimentation
## We all innovate on the model
## Unofficial motto: "what's the worst that could happen?"
## Anyone can start an AF, huge amount of biodiversity
# Fun
## It's actually fun to be in the Awesome Foundation

==== IHAS ====
[[IHAS]] is a backend for the Awesome Foundation that allows the AF to maintain its nebulous, loosely organized nature. IHAS does things so that chapters don't have to. Basically, IHAS is [http://c2910532.r32.cf0.rackcdn.com/84779-4f0f896236e5c-large.jpg Kitten Voltron].

==== Awesome Summit: Assemble ====
* 26/45 active chapters
* 4 fledgling chapters
* 5 continents
* We have exactly exponential growth so far
* Most of the time spent in working groups, one of the most productive Christina has ever been to
* Meta-Awesome grant - winner Ponzi Awesome

==== Awesome Summit: Connect ====
Goals:
# Build community
# Cover unique issues
# Build organizational APIs

Spirit of the conference: JFDI (Just .. Do It)

== Monday sessions ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Time
! Session
|-
| 8:30am-9:00am || Registration
|-
| 9:00am-9:30am || [[General sessions#Opening remarks 2|Welcome and Introductory Remarks]]
|-
| 9:30am-10:30am || [[The Slow Funds Movement]]
|-
| 10:30am-11:30am || [[Lightning Talks]]
|-
| 11:30am-12:30pm || Lunch
|-
| 12:30pm-1:30pm || [[Open branding|Decentralized Organizations and Open Brands]]
|-
| 1:30pm-2:30pm || [[Giving More Than Money]]
|-
| 2:30pm-3:00pm || Break
|-
| 3:00pm-4:00pm || [[The Age of Peak Guilt]]
|-
| 4:00pm-5:00pm || [[Ad-hoc sessions|Attendee-decided sessions]]
|-
| 5:00pm-6:00pm || [[Collaboration, not Calcification]]
|-
| 6:00pm-6:30pm || [[General sessions#Closing remarks|Wrap Up/Closing Remarks]]
|-
| 6:30pm-??? || Cocktails and Dinner off-site
|}

=== Closing remarks ===
Hopefully ending on a high note!

Working Group Summaries

* [[What are we wrong about?]]
* Kickstarter Session
** How do you make the social media explosion happen? Ask at the after-party
* How to bring the Slow Funding to Political Movements
** Lessons from Kickstarter & Awesome Foundation can work as models
* Shout outs to Kara Brickman from AF-Boston, Lori from Civic Media, everyone who live blogged & Erdhart for being the event host

Category:Summit 2012

2012-08-02T23:49:06Z

Willowbl00: Created page with "{{TOC right}} == Saturday == === Opening remarks === This is the third birthday of the Awesome Foundation. It's like "a sperm donor family reunion" - everyone is loosely connec..."

{{TOC right}}

== Saturday ==
=== Opening remarks ===

This is the third birthday of the Awesome Foundation. It's like "a sperm donor family reunion" - everyone is loosely connected. Why are we here? To get together, meet each other, make new friends, and make connections across chapters. We also have people from all five continents!

What are we going to do? We don't have rules. If something isn't happening and you want it to happen, do it. This includes photography and and live blogging.

=== Saturday Schedule ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Time
! Session
|-
| 9:00am-10:00am || Registration/Mingling (coffee will be served)
|-
| 10:00am-10:15am || [[General sessions#Opening remarks|Opening Remarks/Welcome]]
|-
| 10:15am-11:15am || [[General sessions#Chapter introductions|Chapter Introductions]]
|-
| 11:30am-12:00pm || [[AF origins|Origin Story]]: the founding members tell the history of the group
|-
| 12:00pm-12:30pm || [[State of the Awesome]]
|-
| 12:30pm-1:00pm || [[IHAS|WTF is IHAS]]
|-
| 1:00pm-2:00pm || lunch
|-
| 2:00pm-4:00pm || Working Groups
|-
| || Track 1: [[State of the Awesome]]
|-
| || Track 2: [http://wiki.awesomestudies.org/index.php?title=Category:Press Press Materials]
|-
| || Track 3: [[Summit 2013|Summit Planning 2013]]
|-
| 4:00pm-4:30pm || Break
|-
| 4:30pm-5:15pm || Discussion Groups
|-
| || Track 1: [[Dean Support Group]]
|-
| || Track 2: [[Trustee engagement|More Engaged Trustees]]
|-
| || Track 3: [[Ad-hoc sessions|Open Track]]
|-
| 5:30pm-6:30pm || [[General sessions#Important organizational decisions|Important Organizational Decisions]]
|-
| 7:00pm-??? || Dinner and Drinks
|}

== Sunday ==
=== Summary of discussion groups ===
What got accomplished?

=== Sunday schedule ===
== Sunday sessions ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Time
! Session
|-
| 10:00am-10:30am || Balloon group portrait
|-
| 10:30am-11:14am || Discussion Groups
|-
| || Track 1: [[Event ideas|Awesome Event Ideas]]
|-
| || Track 2: [[Grantee support|Helping Fellows w/ More than Money]]
|-
| || Track 3: [[Ad-hoc sessions|Open Track]]
|-
| 11:15am-12:00pm || Discussion Groups
|-
| || Track 1: [[Submission quality|Getting Great Submissions]]
|-
| || Track 2: [[Deliberation|Painless Deliberations]]
|-
| || Track 3: [[Ad-hoc sessions|Open Track]]
|-
| 12:00pm-1:00pm || Lunch
|-
| 1:00pm-2:30pm || Working Groups
|-
| || Track 1: [[New chapter materials|New Chapter Orientation]]
|-
| || Track 2: [[Graphics|Graphic Design and Art]]
|-
| || Track 3: [[Website improvements|Website Hacking]]
|-
| 2:30pm-3:30pm || [[General sessions#Summary of discussion groups|Summary of Discussion Groups]]
|-
| 4:00pm-5:00pm || [[Future of awesome|The Future of Awesome]]
|-
| 5:00pm-6:00pm || [[Pitches and Awarding of the Metagrant]]
|-
| TBA || Awesome Boston grant party
|}

== Monday ==
=== Opening remarks ===
* We just celebrated our third birthday
* Super quick intro to the Awesome Foundation
* Christina is sharing that our logo is 8 in webdings
* Sharing last 2 Boston grants as examples
* Sharing most recent grant: Portland's Free the Billboards
* Last 2 days have been Awesome Summit Assemble
* 47 chapters, people from all over the world

==== What makes us Awesome ====
What makes the Awesome Foundation awesome?
# Low barriers to entry, for both applicants and participants
## Trustees aren't philanthropists, don't see themselves that way
## Makes philanthropy accessible
## Easy app for grantees, people who don't think of themselves as grant recipients
## "I don't have an $100,000 idea, but everyone has a $1000 idea"
# P2P giving from one average person to another
## Grant recipients have become trustees, it's interchangeable
# Constant experimentation
## We all innovate on the model
## Unofficial motto: "what's the worst that could happen?"
## Anyone can start an AF, huge amount of biodiversity
# Fun
## It's actually fun to be in the Awesome Foundation

==== IHAS ====
[[IHAS]] is a backend for the Awesome Foundation that allows the AF to maintain its nebulous, loosely organized nature. IHAS does things so that chapters don't have to. Basically, IHAS is [http://c2910532.r32.cf0.rackcdn.com/84779-4f0f896236e5c-large.jpg Kitten Voltron].

==== Awesome Summit: Assemble ====
* 26/45 active chapters
* 4 fledgling chapters
* 5 continents
* We have exactly exponential growth so far
* Most of the time spent in working groups, one of the most productive Christina has ever been to
* Meta-Awesome grant - winner Ponzi Awesome

==== Awesome Summit: Connect ====
Goals:
# Build community
# Cover unique issues
# Build organizational APIs

Spirit of the conference: JFDI (Just .. Do It)

=== Monday Schedule ===
== Monday sessions ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Time
! Session
|-
| 8:30am-9:00am || Registration
|-
| 9:00am-9:30am || [[General sessions#Opening remarks 2|Welcome and Introductory Remarks]]
|-
| 9:30am-10:30am || [[The Slow Funds Movement]]
|-
| 10:30am-11:30am || [[Lightning Talks]]
|-
| 11:30am-12:30pm || Lunch
|-
| 12:30pm-1:30pm || [[Open branding|Decentralized Organizations and Open Brands]]
|-
| 1:30pm-2:30pm || [[Giving More Than Money]]
|-
| 2:30pm-3:00pm || Break
|-
| 3:00pm-4:00pm || [[The Age of Peak Guilt]]
|-
| 4:00pm-5:00pm || [[Ad-hoc sessions|Attendee-decided sessions]]
|-
| 5:00pm-6:00pm || [[Collaboration, not Calcification]]
|-
| 6:00pm-6:30pm || [[General sessions#Closing remarks|Wrap Up/Closing Remarks]]
|-
| 6:30pm-??? || Cocktails and Dinner off-site
|}

=== Closing remarks ===
Hopefully ending on a high note!

Working Group Summaries

* [[What are we wrong about?]]
* Kickstarter Session
** How do you make the social media explosion happen? Ask at the after-party
* How to bring the Slow Funding to Political Movements
** Lessons from Kickstarter & Awesome Foundation can work as models
* Shout outs to Kara Brickman from AF-Boston, Lori from Civic Media, everyone who live blogged & Erdhart for being the event host

Lightning Talks

2012-08-02T23:44:17Z

Willowbl00: Merits its own page.

For liveblogged transcripts of the lightning talks, see the [http://civic.mit.edu/blog/rahulb/awesome-summit-2012-lightning-talks MIT Center for Civic Media blog].

== [http://www.adventuresinnewgiving.com/ Adventures in New Giving] ==
Nathanial James, founding dean of the Seattle Awesome Foundation, noticed that there were a lot of community giving projects in the Seattle area, but none of them were talking to each other. He is traveling across the US doing interviews and trying to start a dialogue about why people give this way and what it means to give together.

== [http://maker.good.is/ Good Maker] ==
Rei Wang from Good Maker is helping to activate people to do good. Good maker is a way for organizations to start with the funds to connect to the public to get ideas. They are collaborating with Awesome Food to [http://awesomefood.maker.good.is/ make food more Awesome].

== [http://one4onegame.com/ One4One project] ==
Deanna Zandt from the One4One project is focused on "change not charity" - change means we have to think about the structure, and why it isn't working for everyone. Thinking about philanthropy changing is thinking beyond just good ideas. How do we design for equity?

== [http://pacscenter.stanford.edu/ Stanford's Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society] ==
Elizabeth works at the Stanford Center for Philanthropy/Civic Engagement and collaborates with the Aspen Institute (Impact Careers) on how we can help young people have more impactful careers.

== [http://wfmu.org/ WFMU] ==
Ken Freedman is a Station Manager WFNU, an independent public radio station from the NY area. He talks about how radio and TV are legacy institutions and feel they are small monopolies, and they need to think about adapting how they do things.

== [http://www.misfiteconomy.com/ Misfit Economies] ==
Alexa Clay, may be talking later, if doing a Kickstarter funded book and documentary aimed at documenting black and grey market economic processes as our economy starts to Hindenberg.

== [http://www.superpacapp.org/ SuperPACApp] ==
Jennifer Hollet started SuperPACApp along with Dan Siegel as part of a journalism project. The app allows you to hold a phone up to political ads and get objective third party information about them.

== [http://www.knightfoundation.org/ The Knight Foundation] ==
John Bracken of the Knight Foundation is our "funder ex machina". While the Knight Foundation is in some ways the antithesis of Awesome Foundation, they are also committed to making the world more Awesome. The Knight Foundation is announcing [http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2012/7/23/funding-five-new-media-innovation-projects-announced-awesummit/ five new projects] that they are supporting through their new [http://knightfoundation.org/prototype/ Knight Prototype Fund].

[[Category:Summit 2012]]

Pitches and Awarding of the Metagrant

2012-08-02T23:40:57Z

Willowbl00: merits own page, don't we think?

The funded idea is Ponzi Awesome. They will use the $1000 grant to seed the first grant of a new chapter, with the hope of eventually doing this repeatedly.

These are the ideas pitched for the metagrant:
== Awesome Flag (on the moon) ==
It's a flag. On the moon.

== Awesome sunglasses ==
It's also a guerrilla marketing plan!

== Ponzi Awesome ==
Or meta-awesome, or Madoff awesome, or pyramid awesome. The money will be used to reward someone who wants to start a chapter.

== Friends of Awesome ==
A membership program for people to be Awesome without being trustees. The money would go to print out membership cards.

== Awesome Billboard ==
To show our pride. It would go in the city that the 2013 summit will be in.

== Goat Twitter ==
MAAAAAAA <nowiki>[rebleat?]</nowiki>

== Flamethrowers and Orphans ==
HD video of an orphan with a flamethrower. The orphan gets to keep the flamethrower.

[[Category:Summit 2012]]

General sessions

2012-08-02T23:30:35Z

Willowbl00: moved General sessions to 2012 Summit sessions: General was.. well.. too general.

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Deliberation

2012-08-02T23:27:30Z

Willowbl00:

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''Sunday''

How hard could it possibly be to get 10 people with different backgrounds and strong personalities to agree?
==Timing concerns==
How much is front loaded? (i.e., effort put in beforehand)

Lateness: nominate a proxy or send your preferences beforehand. If you do still show up, keep in the background out of courtesy.

Sometimes go for hours before it became streamlined

Balance between business-like efficiency and approachable friendship.

==Trends in choices==
Things people run into that are emergent of what the group funds and don't.

Having a checklist of what adheres to your chapter's vibe

===Setting trends===
First responder sets the tone of the ranking when it's on a transparent sheet. Might prefer it being closed until vote.

Champions of project. Can follow up with group about questions.

==Toronto Process==
1. Rank top 5-10 on spreadsheet
:Submissions not voted on are killed
2. Elimination Round: People call for submissions low on the list to be killed (called falling on your sword)
:Majority vote to kill
:Down to under 10 at this stage
:Recap list in spreadsheet
3. Clarification Round
:Anyone ask for clarity about a submission
:People can "make a case" for a favorite
4. Final Vote
:Conducted on a spreadsheet
:Rank best
:Top 3 emerge
5. Discussion _if needed_
6. Selection : will anyone quit if we choose this project?

==Importance of being prepared==
Submitting the rank a few days before the meeting so the dean has a chance to go through it. Can't just do it on the way to the meeting.

Ranking top three via website.

Lots of ownership felt for each project initially. Now less of an issue with voting

Having submissions organized nicely. Nice collected PDF to look at. Bring those notes to the meeting.

You commit to be to the meeting. No commitment beyond showing up and giving money. Don't have something ''immediately'' after the gathering so you can languish if you like.

==Voting while socializing==
Some people mix it up, drink and eat and discuss. 30 minutes of process, 2 hours of total time.

Some groups just plow through it, don't socialize.

Most of the parties are planned at the relaxed social time.

"reckless granters" - drunken toothfairy

Less distracting to meet in a conference room rather than a bar. Control over your environment. Gallery or hackerspace or somewhat.

Having deeper connections means the group is also stronger to further independent goals.

==Bringing in prior favorites==
Inviting nominees when the awesome is low.

Trying to have a system was cumbersome.

Things that were top ranking get carried forward.

Contact them before moving forward with it.

==Engaging with hopefuls==
Some people call

Some people come pitch. Use whatever format you like.

Important that they come and connect with us and each other. Then the trustees have access to awesome up and coming folk, too.

Do something that helps them stick in your brain.

List top three on blog, not just winner. Gives an endorsement of sorts.

Awesome hours as a way to help hopefuls give a good presentation (this is a debated topic)

Tag things with Awesome stickers.

Banner for sites if they like, link back to blog entry about their participation/win for legitimacy

==Random Bits==
Legality issues

Carry over list added back in

Not being overly attached to a thing. Don't have to discuss every single one.

Follow up after receiving a submission inviting them to party.

[[category:Summit 2012]]
[[category:Operations]]

AF origins

2012-08-02T23:25:00Z

Willowbl00:

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[[category:Summit 2012]]
[[category:About the AF]]

'''Saturday'''

The origin story of the Awesome Foundation. There were 11 or 12 original trustees, including Alexis, the spirit animal. In attendance: Tim Hwang, Jon Pierce, Reed Sturtevant, Evan B., Erhardt, [[User:Tibbon|Dave Fisher]], Keith Hopper. Not in attendance: David Nunez, Emily Daniels (now part of Awesome Food), Matt Blake, and Mac Cowell.

The original premise was "How to make Boston more awesome" - all of the awesome was there, but atomized around the area. We were coming up with really complicated ideas originally. Flamethrowers vs. Orphans.

'''Tim's Favorite:''' A project to have a device that pokes you in the back of the head to remind you to keep being happy.

'''Jon's Favorite:''' Hacker type projects. DIY kit to put up a balloon and map geography, and open source software to stitch stuff together. This kit was also used in the gulf oil spill.

'''Reed's Favorite:''' Ripley from Idaho had recently retired and was gardening on 1000'. He said if he had gear he had enough land to cultivate 10,000' to give away more food. Ripley's Garden for others.

'''Evan's Favorite:''' Danger Dinner. Wanted to go have dinner on the top of a mountain with custom made dishware that would break at low temperatures to see if it would kill them. Not funded, but reminder of weird.

'''Erhardt's Favorite:''' Eco-pod Armada. These plants that could clean water. Water mediation plants towed by remote control boats as a community event to clean up the East River.

'''Dave's Favorite:''' He wanted to hang glide in a bear suit and shoot at cars, or dress up as a monster and hide near the highway in upstate New York and try to cross the road when cars were coming, and see how many newspapers he'd get in before getting caught or hit by a car. He was very specific and wanted to make the arms long. We unfortunately didn't fund it.

The first (EVER!) grant: The first one we funded was a giant hammock in a park that held 15-20 people at a time. Was installed at a park for about two weeks during certain hours. It took about 14 months from the time of the grant to when it was constructed. The other applicant had greater legal risk (lightning gauntlet). Legal questions about liability come up frequently. The grantee was a textile artist and professor at RISD. The project ended up costing about $20,000, and part of it required lots of legal insurance and obligation. She kept going in part of because of the grant, despite the chalenges. Involved something giant, involved the community, making something from scratch, what does it mean when we say no strings attached? We just let it go if/when it gets done?
Hansy (?) comes back to speak and talks about the obligation she felt after the money. It became about an entire community- it takes a village to
raise a giant hammock.

Budget: Is it feasible to do something with about a thousand dollars? What if there's a million dollar thing to do? We were being the initial funding, and this would help projects raise additional funding.

Orphans vs. Flamethrowers: (Erhardt) I'd go home every month and tell my girlfriend what we funded. This was the litmus test of if we were helping people or not. So, Erhardt felt compelled to bring in a voice of what was doing something good for the world. We're always battling between wanting to fund flamethrowers, or wanting to fund something for orphans. The flamethrower-orphan paradox.

Your chapter is trying to find it's identity/soul. How much do we control the process of chapter formation/impose the structure of Boston on other chapters? Shared interests and what you can feel passionate about together.

Don't try to fix problems before you have them. This has interesting repercussions- we still haven't decided what happens when people do things/speak on behalf of the organization.

Radically different viewpoints helps drive discussion/grants. In Boston it was mostly tech people. When the group started, there were awesome tech projects that were not funded because they didn't want to signal they were only for tech. They wanted to signal to other groups. It's important to shake things up every so often to keep the whimsical aspect. Funding things there was nothing else in the world for-like a cotton candy gun. There are a lot of things that fund social good, but not as many people funding flamethrowers. There are some that are both, like lasers space heaters. Another one- a guerrilla stickering project. She designed semi-transparent handicapped layover stickers. Shows an active disabled person rather than a chair with a head. Another was a community project to crochet basketball nets and hang them up on the backboards that were empty all over Boston.

Another signal thing was giving grants to places that weren't in Boston, for instance the grant to a peer to peer network in Australia, and now there are more chapters in Australia. Granting other places helps plant the seed that grows.

We've talked about featuring other things that we couldn't give $1000 but we give a stamp of approval. Signaling to the community about awesome projects. We've given some Kickstarter invites. Another one was Awesome hours. Sometimes we just help people come up with better ideas that they go out and do.

We also have a trend where there are champions that emerge. If an idea doesn't get funded, a person who champions an idea goes back and helps them in some way.

Tactics for Chapter Promotion

2012-08-02T23:22:24Z

Willowbl00: added category

(Subgroup Notes from Press Release Template Discussion)

List of things people need assistance with (brainstorming):

*Social Media How/To (Reg will start writing something that others can build on)
*Free stuff
*Announcement Events
*Event RSVP Tools
*Traditional Media
*How/Who to Target
*Organizational Partnerships (Ex. Hackerspaces - JCN will contact Mitch)
*Capture/Retain Interest
*Grant Recipients as their own PR
*Leveraging Non-Recipient Applicants
*Getting your Mayor involved (Successful cases: Austin, Portland, Pittsburgh)
*Empowering your Trustees
*Awesome community asks (Marshalle)

Successful Case Studies that may address some of the above :

*LA Party: Great turnout, low retention after
*Calgary's Pitch Nights: Public pitch events, builds community and audience spreads the word and even submits proposals later on. Helps retain audience.

'''Recommend that we (as a Foundation) develop the following that other chapters can draw from (i.e. Action Items)''':

Some Case Study Categories that offer a broad range of what AF does: (Tommy)
*Tech/Hacker
*Public Art/Community
*Environmental
*Whimsical
*Food

Other Resources (some may need to be created from scratch):
*Video assets (JCN/Dan)
*Kara's "list of apps" (ex. events, press releases)
*The new main website for case studies and examples of successful projects
*Event planning guide
*Press release guide (Tommy & Avi)
*Leverage the internal AF mail list for crowdsourcing/knowledge gathering

[[category:Tools]] [[category:Press]]

User:Willowbl00

2012-08-02T23:11:23Z

Willowbl00: Created page with "[http://blog.bl00cyb.org blog] willowbl00 on: twitter, flickr, gmail, ..just about everywhere. Chat is best way to get a hold of me."

[http://blog.bl00cyb.org blog]

willowbl00 on: twitter, flickr, gmail, ..just about everywhere.

Chat is best way to get a hold of me.

User talk:Nkkl

2012-08-02T23:08:49Z

Willowbl00: /* Moderator */

Hey Nikki, I see that you moved the links that I added to the main page to some sub-page. I recommend filling the main page with pointers to pages that people can edit otherwise people might never get past the homepage.--[[User:Lansey|Lansey]] 10:48, 23 July 2012 (PDT)
:Yes, that's more or less intentional because the wiki isn't really in a state where it's ready for people to just jump on board and started adding stuff everywhere. People who know their way around a wiki and are unlikely to break things or create confusing/messy structures will be fine... everyone else can wait a few days until I get things a little more cleaned up. This was originally only meant to document the summit, so it's not structured to handle anything beyond that.
: -- [[User:Nkkl|Nkkl]] 11:01, 23 July 2012 (PDT)

== Moderator ==

Hey Nikki! I would definitely be down to help moderate! :)

:You have to leave me your name! Preferably in the form of your wiki account.
:-- [[User:Nkkl|Nkkl]] 11:19, 26 July 2012 (PDT)

Hey Nikki still need to find a moment to sit down and do stuff, but in the meantime, sign me up to help! :-)
-- [[User:Regtiangha|Reg Tiangha]] 11:56, 26 July 2012 (PDT)

I'm willing to help! [[User:Chrysaora|Chrysaora]] 12:10, 26 July 2012 (PDT)

REPORTING FOR DUTY
--[[User:Tim|Tim]] 23:45, 26 July 2012 (PDT)

Adjunct online.
[[User:Willowbl00|Willowbl00]] 16:08, 2 August 2012 (PDT)

Summit 2013

2012-07-22T18:37:32Z

Willowbl00: /* Selection Process */ formatting hated me

{{TOC right}}

It's going to be so fun that we'll definitely want to do it again!

== Precedent (2012 Summit) ==

=== Attendee motivations ===
Why did people decide to attend Awesome Summit in the first place?
* cross-pollination/learning from others
* getting inspired
* curiosity

=== Purpose ===
Meta-Question: What's the purpose of the Awesome Summit? In fact, are we actually even an organisation or just an emergent entity based on some shared interests?

* do we need to have an annual one that incorporates as many people from all chapters as possible vs. regional events, some other models etc.
* based on a completely non-scientific and sub-optimal participatory process, seems like the general consensus of the discussion group feels that there should be another summit next year (roughly around this time of year)

=== Boston's process for 2012 ===
* started in Jan, but bulk of work to organize has been in the last 2 months leading up
** necessity of establishing venues and contracts at least half a year ahead of time however (MIT Media Lab booked in Dec)
* $25,000 in donations which certainly helped but should not expect to exist for all future summits
** also ticket sales for the public component of the summit
** 124 tickets sold for the public event this time round
* need to be aware that fewer people will generally be able to attend than desired or planned for
** $10,000 was used to subsidize travel for this summit
* the MIT Media lab was made available gratis, which was very helpful, otherwise would cost ~$1000/hour
* agenda was decided by fiat more or less by small group of people, major driving reason was just to get everyone together
* '''Need to establish a feedback mechanism for this summit to determine what people liked, disliked, would recommend'''

== Future planning ==

=== Goals of 2013 Awesome Summit ===
* get everyone together
* learning from each other
* making sure we're on the same page (or at least knowing such a page exists)
* celebrate getting to $1,000,000 total grants, as forecast by the data mining team
* recurring themes:
** helping with trustee turnover or expanding pool
** soliciting good applications/getting through application slumps)

=== Where's the AWESOME in these summits? ===
* leaving increased capacity behind in the city i.e. stronger proposals
* Awesome Connect--bringing together network or resources + applicants + award mega-grant
* invite former grantees
* storytelling
* disruptive philanthropy

=== Looking forward ===
Towards the future:
* IHAS can play a continuing role to seek sponsorship/funding for future summits
* point of connection for entrepreneurs that want to give back'''

=== Location ===
Deciding on a process for determining location (brainstorming)
* letter of intent?
** Boston's process

=== Decision-making process ===
* a lot of existing models have competing pitches presenting at the end of the current summit and then a decision is made there
* is it at the level of a vote per(active) chapters, per trustee, what?
* having a committee struck to help lead to a decision on venue
** would they decide by fiat, would they make a decision after a collaboratively decided short-list, vice versa?
** have the committee include a rep (or multiple reps) from each short-listed location
*** potential conflicts of interest that result from this
*** potential of the summit planning cannibalizing the vitality of the host chapter's standard activities

=== Summit Commitee ===
Creating a Summit Committee?
* <strike>separate from a committee to help decide the summit location</strike>
* help to ensure that the summit happens each year
* '''BUT''' do we want to duplicate the effort and resources required to have two separate committees?
** perhaps having a sub-committee that works to decide a location
* '''NEEDS:''' a group to determine location, a group to work on logistics, a group to work on programming/content; whether these be separate groups or sub-groups

=== Selection Process ===
1. Pitches made by interested chapters/locations

2. Mandatory submission of info to committee (opens by Aug 18, closes Sept 29)

3. Committee vets submissions and creates short-list of viable possibilities (takes four weeks, requesting page content by Oct 27)

4. Pages posted two weeks later on November 10

5. Vote by active chapters based on the short-list (2 weeks, closing Nov 24)
* One vote per chapter for preferred location. PREFERENCE
* Individuals indicate ''where'' they '''could''' attend, were it to be at any of those locations. ABILITY

6. Committee takes the vote into consideration and then decides (one week)

7. Announcement of next year's location at the summit (December 1)

[http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8025/7623606110_d208bba858_z.jpg timeline image]

=== Tentative Selection Timeline ===
* Application process opens
* Close of application process
* Vetting of applications by committee
* Deliberation by committee on short-list (Vetting)
* Submitting groups publish their "pitch page"/Voting begins
* Voting closes
* Announcement of location of summit

=== Pitches ===
The pitch should:
* demonstrate solidarity and commitment of chapter (or hosting group if it's a different body)
* demonstrate of strength of chapter and ability to execute
* mandatory submission component to committee to demonstrate that the capacity to implement exists
** form/questions to be designed by committee
* video or other excitement building pitch would be optional

=== Potential Criteria ===
* (or at least considerations)
* urban vs rural areas? environment that leads to retreat style or otherwise

=== Value of hosting a summit ===
* potential capacity building for the hosting group
* branding/marketing
* improve number/quality of submissions
* exposure
* potential collaborations and expanded network due to all of the above

=== ISSUES ===
* up till now Awesome XX:YY's have all been pretty ad-hoc groups; summits require much greater level of organization and dare-we-say, structure
* no particular failsafe on this right now, but that's okay--worst thing that happens is there's no summit that year
** is that actually okay? potential damage to brand/chapters/etc.
* this tentative process is, of course, a work in progress and subject to change due to good arguments (that could also be part of pitches, especially with regards to dates, etc.)
* an actual pre-defined agenda, or a structure by which participants can create large chunks of the agenda?
* looking towards the future, if IHAS wants to expand Awesomeness internationally in a major way, imperative to involve reps from international chapters as part of future Summit Commitees

== Resources ==
To be uploaded

[[category:Saturday]]
[[category:Summit 2013]]
[[category:Meta]

Summit 2013

2012-07-22T18:36:59Z

Willowbl00:

{{TOC right}}

It's going to be so fun that we'll definitely want to do it again!

== Precedent (2012 Summit) ==

=== Attendee motivations ===
Why did people decide to attend Awesome Summit in the first place?
* cross-pollination/learning from others
* getting inspired
* curiosity

=== Purpose ===
Meta-Question: What's the purpose of the Awesome Summit? In fact, are we actually even an organisation or just an emergent entity based on some shared interests?

* do we need to have an annual one that incorporates as many people from all chapters as possible vs. regional events, some other models etc.
* based on a completely non-scientific and sub-optimal participatory process, seems like the general consensus of the discussion group feels that there should be another summit next year (roughly around this time of year)

=== Boston's process for 2012 ===
* started in Jan, but bulk of work to organize has been in the last 2 months leading up
** necessity of establishing venues and contracts at least half a year ahead of time however (MIT Media Lab booked in Dec)
* $25,000 in donations which certainly helped but should not expect to exist for all future summits
** also ticket sales for the public component of the summit
** 124 tickets sold for the public event this time round
* need to be aware that fewer people will generally be able to attend than desired or planned for
** $10,000 was used to subsidize travel for this summit
* the MIT Media lab was made available gratis, which was very helpful, otherwise would cost ~$1000/hour
* agenda was decided by fiat more or less by small group of people, major driving reason was just to get everyone together
* '''Need to establish a feedback mechanism for this summit to determine what people liked, disliked, would recommend'''

== Future planning ==

=== Goals of 2013 Awesome Summit ===
* get everyone together
* learning from each other
* making sure we're on the same page (or at least knowing such a page exists)
* celebrate getting to $1,000,000 total grants, as forecast by the data mining team
* recurring themes:
** helping with trustee turnover or expanding pool
** soliciting good applications/getting through application slumps)

=== Where's the AWESOME in these summits? ===
* leaving increased capacity behind in the city i.e. stronger proposals
* Awesome Connect--bringing together network or resources + applicants + award mega-grant
* invite former grantees
* storytelling
* disruptive philanthropy

=== Looking forward ===
Towards the future:
* IHAS can play a continuing role to seek sponsorship/funding for future summits
* point of connection for entrepreneurs that want to give back'''

=== Location ===
Deciding on a process for determining location (brainstorming)
* letter of intent?
** Boston's process

=== Decision-making process ===
* a lot of existing models have competing pitches presenting at the end of the current summit and then a decision is made there
* is it at the level of a vote per(active) chapters, per trustee, what?
* having a committee struck to help lead to a decision on venue
** would they decide by fiat, would they make a decision after a collaboratively decided short-list, vice versa?
** have the committee include a rep (or multiple reps) from each short-listed location
*** potential conflicts of interest that result from this
*** potential of the summit planning cannibalizing the vitality of the host chapter's standard activities

=== Summit Commitee ===
Creating a Summit Committee?
* <strike>separate from a committee to help decide the summit location</strike>
* help to ensure that the summit happens each year
* '''BUT''' do we want to duplicate the effort and resources required to have two separate committees?
** perhaps having a sub-committee that works to decide a location
* '''NEEDS:''' a group to determine location, a group to work on logistics, a group to work on programming/content; whether these be separate groups or sub-groups

=== Selection Process ===
1. Pitches made by interested chapters/locations
2. Mandatory submission of info to committee (opens by Aug 18, closes Sept 29)
3. Committee vets submissions and creates short-list of viable possibilities (takes four weeks, requesting page content by Oct 27)
4. Pages posted two weeks later on November 10
5. Vote by active chapters based on the short-list (2 weeks, closing Nov 24)
* One vote per chapter for preferred location. PREFERENCE
* Individuals indicate ''where'' they '''could''' attend, were it to be at any of those locations. ABILITY
6. Committee takes the vote into consideration and then decides (one week)
7. Announcement of next year's location at the summit (December 1)
[http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8025/7623606110_d208bba858_z.jpg timeline image]

=== Tentative Selection Timeline ===
* Application process opens
* Close of application process
* Vetting of applications by committee
* Deliberation by committee on short-list (Vetting)
* Submitting groups publish their "pitch page"/Voting begins
* Voting closes
* Announcement of location of summit

=== Pitches ===
The pitch should:
* demonstrate solidarity and commitment of chapter (or hosting group if it's a different body)
* demonstrate of strength of chapter and ability to execute
* mandatory submission component to committee to demonstrate that the capacity to implement exists
** form/questions to be designed by committee
* video or other excitement building pitch would be optional

=== Potential Criteria ===
* (or at least considerations)
* urban vs rural areas? environment that leads to retreat style or otherwise

=== Value of hosting a summit ===
* potential capacity building for the hosting group
* branding/marketing
* improve number/quality of submissions
* exposure
* potential collaborations and expanded network due to all of the above

=== ISSUES ===
* up till now Awesome XX:YY's have all been pretty ad-hoc groups; summits require much greater level of organization and dare-we-say, structure
* no particular failsafe on this right now, but that's okay--worst thing that happens is there's no summit that year
** is that actually okay? potential damage to brand/chapters/etc.
* this tentative process is, of course, a work in progress and subject to change due to good arguments (that could also be part of pitches, especially with regards to dates, etc.)
* an actual pre-defined agenda, or a structure by which participants can create large chunks of the agenda?
* looking towards the future, if IHAS wants to expand Awesomeness internationally in a major way, imperative to involve reps from international chapters as part of future Summit Commitees

== Resources ==
To be uploaded

[[category:Saturday]]
[[category:Summit 2013]]
[[category:Meta]

Giving More Than Money

2012-07-22T18:24:39Z

Willowbl00: added image

{{TOC right}}

Because philanthropy.

Most conversation fell into topics of:
*Continued engagement
*Connecting to more than just winners
*Cross pollination across and within chapters
*Promotion of projects and individuals via the chapter
*Providing mentorship and connections
*Encouraging propagation of instructions for creation

[http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8434/7623606002_564f503c25.jpg Image]

[[category:Monday]]
[[category:Meta]]

Giving More Than Money

2012-07-22T18:19:57Z

Willowbl00:

AF origins

2012-07-22T18:14:19Z

Willowbl00: minor formatting

{{TOC right}}

[[category:Saturday]]
[[category:About the AF]]

The origin story of the Awesome Foundation. There were 11 or 12 original trustees, including Alexis, the spirit animal. In attendance: Tim Hwang, Jon Pierce, Reed Sturtevant, Evan B., Erhardt, [[User:Tibbon|Dave Fisher]], Keith Hopper. Not in attendance: David Nunez, Emily Daniels (now part of Awesome Food), Matt Blake, and Mac Cowell.

The original premise was "How to make Boston more awesome" - all of the awesome was there, but atomized around the area. We were coming up with really complicated ideas originally. Flamethrowers vs. Orphans.

'''Tim's Favorite:''' A project to have a device that pokes you in the back of the head to remind you to keep being happy.

'''Jon's Favorite:''' Hacker type projects. DIY kit to put up a balloon and map geography, and open source software to stitch stuff together. This kit was also used in the gulf oil spill.

'''Reed's Favorite:''' Ripley from Idaho had recently retired and was gardening on 1000'. He said if he had gear he had enough land to cultivate 10,000' to give away more food. Ripley's Garden for others.

'''Evan's Favorite:''' Danger Dinner. Wanted to go have dinner on the top of a mountain with custom made dishware that would break at low temperatures to see if it would kill them. Not funded, but reminder of weird.

'''Erhardt's Favorite:''' Eco-pod Armada. These plants that could clean water. Water mediation plants towed by remote control boats as a community event to clean up the East River.

'''Dave's Favorite:''' He wanted to hang glide in a bear suit and shoot at cars, or dress up as a monster and hide near the highway in upstate New York and try to cross the road when cars were coming, and see how many newspapers he'd get in before getting caught or hit by a car. He was very specific and wanted to make the arms long. We unfortunately didn't fund it.

The first (EVER!) grant: The first one we funded was a giant hammock in a park that held 15-20 people at a time. Was installed at a park for about two weeks during certain hours. It took about 14 months from the time of the grant to when it was constructed. The other applicant had greater legal risk (lightning gauntlet). Legal questions about liability come up frequently. The grantee was a textile artist and professor at RISD. The project ended up costing about $20,000, and part of it required lots of legal insurance and obligation. She kept going in part of because of the grant, despite the chalenges. Involved something giant, involved the community, making something from scratch, what does it mean when we say no strings attached? We just let it go if/when it gets done?
Hansy (?) comes back to speak and talks about the obligation she felt after the money. It became about an entire community- it takes a village to
raise a giant hammock.

Budget: Is it feasible to do something with about a thousand dollars? What if there's a million dollar thing to do? We were being the initial funding, and this would help projects raise additional funding.

Orphans vs. Flamethrowers: (Erhardt) I'd go home every month and tell my girlfriend what we funded. This was the litmus test of if we were helping people or not. So, Erhardt felt compelled to bring in a voice of what was doing something good for the world. We're always battling between wanting to fund flamethrowers, or wanting to fund something for orphans. The flamethrower-orphan paradox.

Your chapter is trying to find it's identity/soul. How much do we control the process of chapter formation/impose the structure of Boston on other chapters? Shared interests and what you can feel passionate about together.

Don't try to fix problems before you have them. This has interesting repercussions- we still haven't decided what happens when people do things/speak on behalf of the organization.

Radically different viewpoints helps drive discussion/grants. In Boston it was mostly tech people. When the group started, there were awesome tech projects that were not funded because they didn't want to signal they were only for tech. They wanted to signal to other groups. It's important to shake things up every so often to keep the whimsical aspect. Funding things there was nothing else in the world for-like a cotton candy gun. There are a lot of things that fund social good, but not as many people funding flamethrowers. There are some that are both, like lasers space heaters. Another one- a guerrilla stickering project. She designed semi-transparent handicapped layover stickers. Shows an active disabled person rather than a chair with a head. Another was a community project to crochet basketball nets and hang them up on the backboards that were empty all over Boston.

Another signal thing was giving grants to places that weren't in Boston, for instance the grant to a peer to peer network in Australia, and now there are more chapters in Australia. Granting other places helps plant the seed that grows.

We've talked about featuring other things that we couldn't give $1000 but we give a stamp of approval. Signaling to the community about awesome projects. We've given some Kickstarter invites. Another one was Awesome hours. Sometimes we just help people come up with better ideas that they go out and do.

We also have a trend where there are champions that emerge. If an idea doesn't get funded, a person who champions an idea goes back and helps them in some way.

Deliberation

2012-07-22T18:10:17Z

Willowbl00:

{{TOC right}}

How hard could it possibly be to get 10 people with different backgrounds and strong personalities to agree?
==Timing concerns==
How much is front loaded? (i.e., effort put in beforehand)

Lateness: nominate a proxy or send your preferences beforehand. If you do still show up, keep in the background out of courtesy.

Sometimes go for hours before it became streamlined

Balance between business-like efficiency and approachable friendship.

==Trends in choices==
Things people run into that are emergent of what the group funds and don't.

Having a checklist of what adheres to your chapter's vibe

===Setting trends===
First responder sets the tone of the ranking when it's on a transparent sheet. Might prefer it being closed until vote.

Champions of project. Can follow up with group about questions.

==Toronto Process==
1. Rank top 5-10 on spreadsheet
:Submissions not voted on are killed
2. Elimination Round: People call for submissions low on the list to be killed (called falling on your sword)
:Majority vote to kill
:Down to under 10 at this stage
:Recap list in spreadsheet
3. Clarification Round
:Anyone ask for clarity about a submission
:People can "make a case" for a favorite
4. Final Vote
:Conducted on a spreadsheet
:Rank best
:Top 3 emerge
5. Discussion _if needed_
6. Selection : will anyone quit if we choose this project?

==Importance of being prepared==
Submitting the rank a few days before the meeting so the dean has a chance to go through it. Can't just do it on the way to the meeting.

Ranking top three via website.

Lots of ownership felt for each project initially. Now less of an issue with voting

Having submissions organized nicely. Nice collected PDF to look at. Bring those notes to the meeting.

You commit to be to the meeting. No commitment beyond showing up and giving money. Don't have something ''immediately'' after the gathering so you can languish if you like.

==Voting while socializing==
Some people mix it up, drink and eat and discuss. 30 minutes of process, 2 hours of total time.

Some groups just plow through it, don't socialize.

Most of the parties are planned at the relaxed social time.

"reckless granters" - drunken toothfairy

Less distracting to meet in a conference room rather than a bar. Control over your environment. Gallery or hackerspace or somewhat.

Having deeper connections means the group is also stronger to further independent goals.

==Bringing in prior favorites==
Inviting nominees when the awesome is low.

Trying to have a system was cumbersome.

Things that were top ranking get carried forward.

Contact them before moving forward with it.

==Engaging with hopefuls==
Some people call

Some people come pitch. Use whatever format you like.

Important that they come and connect with us and each other. Then the trustees have access to awesome up and coming folk, too.

Do something that helps them stick in your brain.

List top three on blog, not just winner. Gives an endorsement of sorts.

Awesome hours as a way to help hopefuls give a good presentation (this is a debated topic)

Tag things with Awesome stickers.

Banner for sites if they like, link back to blog entry about their participation/win for legitimacy

==Random Bits==
Legality issues

Carry over list added back in

Not being overly attached to a thing. Don't have to discuss every single one.

Follow up after receiving a submission inviting them to party.

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