[Dailydave] "Hack the Planet"

[image: image.png] Ok ya'll - you're letting me down. There's a thousand ways you and your friends can use 10k to improve the world - engineering a solution nobody would pay for because it's not something you can put at a booth at RSAC. EVERYONE ON THIS LIST needs to either submit for a grant, or find someone who will submit for a grant. You're telling me not one of those superhackers at Microsoft and Google can find a worthy project? It's Thursday, and there's 5000 people on this list, each of which can destroy whole systems of the world with their minds, but actually all I want now is for them to work up the energy to fill out this google form <https://nostarchfoundation.org/apply-now/>. I have a whole team of very cool people <https://nostarchfoundation.org/our-board/> waiting to help walk you through the process once you do. And the grant recipients that get selected are also going to get mentored by experienced members of the field - the head of the mentorship committee <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Davis_(entrepreneur)> started a little zine back in the day called Wired and knows basically EVERYONE, and I think the mentorship alone should convince you to submit a grant request. Anyways, typey typey. Get to it. :) -dave P.S. Here's one of last year's submissions <https://nostarchfoundation.org/grant-recipients-by-year/2020-grant-recipients/>, which I quite like. [image: image.png]