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# the /awesome project | ||
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The goal of the /awesome (pronounced "slash awesome") project is to surface the stories and stats the demonstrate how often the web is. | ||
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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**. | ||
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each /awesome page would answer a simple question: | ||
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**“What has happened in our community that is new and awesome, and wouldn’t have been possible without the web?”** | ||
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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. | ||
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## /awesome tools: | ||
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Each /awesome page could be totally unique and different -- and could be designed / moderated / edited / curated in whichever way is appropriate to that community. | ||
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As an open source project, we can develop a handful of tools to help people bootstrap their pages. | ||
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For example, templates: | ||
* blog / tumblog format | ||
* slideshow format | ||
* pinterest board-like format | ||
* timeline-format | ||
* etc | ||
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Also, we'll think about some data standards: | ||
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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. | ||
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So, a spec -- maybe as simple as RSS for content, and perhaps something more tailored eventually for different kinds of data. | ||
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## join in | ||
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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. |