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Re:Awesome Foundation gives no-strings cash to great ideas [... by cing on Monday July 29, 2013 @09:24AM (#6120901)
I've given 3 oral pitches to my local Awesome Foundation over the years and wasn't selected each time. Not sure if that says something about my ideas, pitch skills, or what, but it's a bit of a bummer. FYI: The ideas were a completely solar/bike-powered LAN party, an electronics recycling drive where you get to smash computers with sledgehammers, and a student conference where all the research posters are wheatpasted onto the walls of a graffiti-filled alleyway and presented with paint markers.
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Re:Awesome Foundation gives no-strings cash to great ideas [... by aasarava on Monday July 29, 2013 @12:30PM (#6122107)
Regarding smashing computers with sledgehammers, keep in mind that in doing so you are quite likely to release lead dust and other toxics. You shouldn't be breathing this in and you shouldn't let it get washed down the gutter and into the local stream.
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Re:Awesome Foundation gives no-strings cash to great ideas [... by samstave on Monday July 29, 2013 @12:33PM (#6122121)
Sorry, I just don't see the appeal of any of those ideas -- though clearly I am not your target interest group.

The smashing of computers as a recycling effort seems ridiculous to me in that computers are filled with tons of toxic materials.

I don't see how smashing them with hammers is good for anything...

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Re:Awesome Foundation gives no-strings cash to great ideas [... by cing on Monday July 29, 2013 @05:25PM (#6123995)
Smashed computers can still be recycled, I had a partnership with a local e-waste recycling company. The idea was to give people incentive to recycle with a fun event. With regards to the toxic materials, it was my understanding that only monitors offered some risk. I could be wrong though.
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Re:Awesome Foundation gives no-strings cash to great ideas [... by tibbon on Monday July 29, 2013 @09:44AM (#6121040)
Sorry to hear about that- and I encourage you to reapply (even with the same ideas again!). Sometimes it isn't that your idea wasn't awesome, but that there were just a lot of other awesome ideas coming in that month.

- David Fisher (AF trustee/co-founder)

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Re:Awesome Foundation gives no-strings cash to great ideas [... by 1337biz on Monday July 29, 2013 @11:57AM (#6121883)
an electronics recycling drive where you get to smash computers with sledgehammers,

Would be super interested in these. I am sitting on all the HDs I ever had and would love to get them destroyed in front of my eyes but am to lazy to do it myself.

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