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We have something similar starting at AMT but geared to be entirely local. I don't know if people really know how to go about getting grants very well (I certainly don't).
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<div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Al Jigong Billings</div><div>http://www.openbuddha.com</div><div><br></div></div>
<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Matt Joyce wrote:</p>
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<span><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; "><div>I know that nyc resistor pitched a grant proposal to the MacArthur</div><div>foundation probably in 2009 or so. We had floated an idea nearly</div><div>identical to the hacker scout badges that adafruit and phil torrone (</div><div>of make ) have come up with as well. We did not get the grant.</div><div>Which to my mind is a pity. It would have been pretty great.</div></span></span></span>
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