diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 561d85b..7713dce 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,34 +1 @@ -# the /awesome project - -The goal of the /awesome (pronounced "slash awesome") project is to surface the stories and stats the demonstrate how often the web is. - -What if every website who wanted to (from huge providers like Google, to networks like Etsy, to independent bloggers and individuals) added a new page to their website, located at **/awesome**. - -each /awesome page would answer a simple question: - -**“What has happened in our community that is new and awesome, and wouldn’t have been possible without the web?”** - -This would be the place for each community to pick the “holy shit” stories -- and they are so, so many -- and surface them, for the benefit of the entire movement. This would be about real people and real stories -- coming from the bottom up / edges in. - -## /awesome tools: - -Each /awesome page could be totally unique and different -- and could be designed / moderated / edited / curated in whichever way is appropriate to that community. - -As an open source project, we can develop a handful of tools to help people bootstrap their pages. - -For example, templates: - * blog / tumblog format - * slideshow format - * pinterest board-like format - * timeline-format - * etc - -Also, we'll think about some data standards: - -I will be important for /awesome pages to publish machine-readable data that describes the awesomeness, so that it can be aggregated & built upon by others. - -So, a spec -- maybe as simple as RSS for content, and perhaps something more tailored eventually for different kinds of data. - -## join in - -This is just the eensy weensy start of an idea. There's a discussion list [here](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/slashawesome) - please feel free to join in. +public website for the [/awesome](http://slashawesome.net) project. \ No newline at end of file