Category:Summit 2012
The 2012 Awesome Summit consists of a 2 day internal summit and a 1 day 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
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 9:00am-10:00am | Registration/Mingling (coffee will be served) |
| 10:00am-10:15am | Opening Remarks/Welcome |
| 10:15am-11:15am | Chapter Introductions |
| 11:30am-12:00pm | Origin Story: the founding members tell the history of the group |
| 12:00pm-12:30pm | State of the Awesome |
| 12:30pm-1:00pm | WTF is IHAS |
| 1:00pm-2:00pm | lunch |
| 2:00pm-4:00pm | Working Groups |
| Track 1: State of the Awesome | |
| Track 2: Press Materials | |
| Track 3: Summit Planning 2013 | |
| 4:00pm-4:30pm | Break |
| 4:30pm-5:15pm | Discussion Groups |
| Track 1: Dean Support Group | |
| Track 2: More Engaged Trustees | |
| Track 3: Open Track | |
| 5:30pm-6:30pm | Important Organizational Decisions |
| 7:00pm-??? | Dinner and Drinks |
Sunday
Summary of discussion groups
What got accomplished?
Sunday schedule
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 10:00am-10:30am | Balloon group portrait |
| 10:30am-11:14am | Discussion Groups |
| Track 1: Awesome Event Ideas | |
| Track 2: Helping Fellows w/ More than Money | |
| Track 3: Open Track | |
| 11:15am-12:00pm | Discussion Groups |
| Track 1: Getting Great Submissions | |
| Track 2: Painless Deliberations | |
| Track 3: Open Track | |
| 12:00pm-1:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00pm-2:30pm | Working Groups |
| Track 1: New Chapter Orientation | |
| Track 2: Graphic Design and Art | |
| Track 3: Website Hacking | |
| 2:30pm-3:30pm | Summary of Discussion Groups |
| 4:00pm-5:00pm | 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 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
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 8:30am-9:00am | Registration |
| 9:00am-9:30am | 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 | 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 | Attendee-decided sessions |
| 5:00pm-6:00pm | Collaboration, not Calcification |
| 6:00pm-6:30pm | 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
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