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Awesome Summit 2012 - Decentralized Organizations and Open Brands

Submitted by rahulb on July 23, 2012 - 1:45pm

Live notes from the "Decentralized Organizations and Open Brands" session at the Awesome Summit, by Rahul Bhargava, Ethan Zuckerman, Matt Stempeck and Willow Brugh.

 

Awesome Summit 2012 - Lightning Talks

Submitted by rahulb on July 23, 2012 - 12:14pm

Live notes from the "Lightning Talks" session at the Awesome Summit, by Rahul Bhargava, Ethan Zuckerman, Matt Stempeck and Willow Brugh.

Christina introduces a session of lightning talks. She sent out an invitation for people doing awesome things to join us here at the Summit today. Each will get about 5 minutes to talk about their ideas:

Nathaniel James - Adventures in New Giving, @newgiving, @nj140

Awesome Summit 2012: Slow Funds

Submitted by rahulb on July 23, 2012 - 10:56am

Live notes from the "Slow Foods" session at the Awesome Summit, by Rahul Bhargava, Ethan Zuckerman, and Willow Brugh.

Christina is a foodie, so she looks to food movements for driving messages. A critical one for the Awesome Foudnation has been the Slow Food movement. She is starting to champion "slow funding" based on the slow foods movement. She just substitutes "food" with the word "funds" and gets:

Raising public awareness, improving access and encouraging the enjoyment of funds that are local and sustainably grown.

Christina introduces a few people to share their work along this idea.

Rick DeBos (Grand Rapids, MI)

Awesome Summit 2012: Intro Session

Submitted by rahulb on July 23, 2012 - 10:45am

Live notes from the intro session to the Awesome Summit, by Rahul Bhargava and Ethan Zuckerman

Christina Xu welcomes a varied and enthusiastic crew to the Awesome Summit at MIT's Media Lab. For two days, the trustees of various different Awesome Foundations have been meeting to discuss internal affairs. Today, the conversation opens up to the general public, where the topic at hand is the future of philanthropy and social change.

Awesome Foundation is now three years old. The pink "fast forward" logo, designed by founder Tim Hwang, is a really good example of organizational philosophy. It is created by simply typing 8 in the Webdings font. Awesome Foundation is all about having a great idea. People may not be the most professional at it - but they just do it.

The "standard" model is to involve a group of 10 trustees, each of whom contributes $100 per month. The group gives out a $1000 monthly grant, with no strings attached. Some examples of recent grants include:

We're Hiring! Civic Technology Programmer needed

Submitted by rahulb on June 28, 2012 - 5:07pm

We've got an open seat here at the Center for Civic Media - we're trying to hire a Civic Technology Programmer. Are you, or do you know, a hacker excited about the civic engagement space? Let us know!

We are looking for someone to help us bring our research projects to a wider audience. The job will be a mix of product work and research - juggling projects, working with brilliant people inside and outside the Media Lab, and have the chance to work on new civic technology that can have a real impact! The position is for here at the Lab, hopefully full time. The tech needs start with Drupal and Ruby on Rails, but will include lots of other things too.

We're a small team looking for someone that is a good fit. Pass along this post, or contact rahulb@mit.edu for more info. You have to apply officially through the link below.

Link: 
Civic Technology Programmer job post

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