It’s been one helluva few weeks for Awesome Foundation worldwide. Our fearless founder, Tim Hwang, was awarded $244,000 from the Knight Foundation to: experiment with a new funding model for local journalism, The Awesome Foundation: News Taskforce will bring together 10 to 15 community leaders…
The Open Knowledge Foundation is putting on its annual conference in Berlin at the end of the month. Daniel Dietrich has done a stellar job pulling together some of the most active and inspiring people in the Free/Open space, and I’m really looking forward to…
A Street Named Awesome by moonlightbulb available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Spring has sprung, and the Awesome Foundation Berlin is springing 1000EUR cash money for a mindblowingly awesome project. The setup is simple: visit the online application form, write a *short* summary of your…
It’s been a fantastic two days at Global Melt, and boy is my mind liquid. In a room filled with talented community instigators and caretakers, we hacked on tools and strategies to boost community health during events, to get things done IRL, and to most…
Global Melt logo by Joanna Tarkowski, available under a CC Attribution Poland 3.0 license. Very excited about this weekend’s inaugural Global Melt, a workshop for members and leaders of global peer-driven movements to explore what our movements have in common, share what we have learned,…