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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hi Bruce, <br><br>The reason for this challenge is to explore the ideas. Hackerspaces are another great way to explore these ideas. The Internet can be an OK tool for helping. This email list is also an OK tool for sharing ideas. <br><br>Communities and tools at this point aren't yet widespread or adequate enough. It's a great start. But we need more. <br><br>So, please make use of what is available. And please create more communities and tools that will work better for what you would like to do. That is the way things will get better. <br><br>Best, <br>Mitch. <br><br><hr>Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 06:55:08 -0400<br>From: bakmthiscl@gmail.com<br>To: discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org<br>Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Green Electronics Challenge<br><br><div dir=ltr><div><div><div><div>Mitch,<br><br></div>This is a really good idea, and some of the ideas shown are excellent.<br><br></div>What I'm wondering about is whether there's a forum for exchanging ideas such as these. (This forum seems not to be such.) <br>
<br>Ideally, that forum might be a hackerspace, but one is not always able to participate in a like-minded hackerspace. <br><br>For my part, I can often come up with ideas I have little hope of implementing myself. At the recent Mini-Maker Faire in Newark, I found it stimulating to exchange ideas -- to GIVE ideas, really -- to others who were working on projects.<br>
<br></div>Do you know of any Internet forum that leans in this direction?<br><br></div>Bruce Freeman<br></div><div class=ecxgmail_extra><br><br><div class=ecxgmail_quote>On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Mitch Altman <span dir=ltr><<a href="mailto:maltman23@hotmail.com" target=_blank>maltman23@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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To help reduce electronic waste, Arizona State University, The New America Foundation, Slate magazine, and Tsinghua University are collaborating to put on a challenge: Come up with cool projects to help reduce e-waste, and you could win some cool prizes.<br>
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A panel of judges made up of Instructables staff and respected members of the community including Chris Anderson and Joi Ito will rate the finalists.<br>
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Open to any hackerspace or individual or groups in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, and China.<br>
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