Hi all, I had a conversation with the CEO of the Thiel foundation this weekend, and I learned that they've begun a new experiment involving the distribution of grants to organizations who are in some way changing the way things are done in this world, with favor towards STEM (undoubtedly due to Thiel's bias toward democratizing those fields). I mentioned that I've been doing my fellowship work at the Omni commons, and have described the place as it is - a haphazard collection of interesting collectives, and she took significant interest in that. Would this be a conversation the Omni fundraisers would like to continue? There could be good outcomes, given Sudo and CCL's presence and activity in the commons. (If so I'd also like to be an observer in the process, as this year I'll have to do a fundraising round of my own so any experience is valuable!) Cheers, -Adam _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss

Yes! This sounds very promising indeed. I've Cc'd CCL board list on this as well. -Cere On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 11:03 AM, niki &lt;niki.shelley(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Adam!! > > Yes! We would love to continue to have this conversation! When might be a > good time? (I've cc'ed the Omni Fundraising committee here). > > <3 > > Niki > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Adam Munich &lt;adam(a)aperture.systems&gt; > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I had a conversation with the CEO of the Thiel foundation this weekend, >> and I learned that they've begun a new experiment involving the distribution >> of grants to organizations who are in some way changing the way things are >> done in this world, with favor towards STEM (undoubtedly due to Thiel's bias >> toward democratizing those fields). >> >> I mentioned that I've been doing my fellowship work at the Omni commons, >> and have described the place as it is - a haphazard collection of >> interesting collectives, and she took significant interest in that. >> >> Would this be a conversation the Omni fundraisers would like to continue? >> There could be good outcomes, given Sudo and CCL's presence and activity in >> the commons. >> >> (If so I'd also like to be an observer in the process, as this year I'll >> have to do a fundraising round of my own so any experience is valuable!) >> >> Cheers, >> -Adam >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sudo-discuss mailing list >> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> > > _______________________________________________ > sudo-discuss mailing list > sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org > https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss >