Knight Drupal Initiative

This page is a resource for members of the Drupal community. If you would like to promote the Knight Drupal Initiative, you can use the following materials.

For more information about the KDI, see the program goals and the FAQ. To submit a proposal, please review the application tips and the application process.

Program summary

A one sentence summary of the KDI.

* The Knight Drupal Initiative is an ongoing grant program for Drupal and is designed to help people improve their communities by providing a robust, freely distributed, open source digital publishing platform.

Elevator pitch

For use when you have thirty seconds to explain the KDI.

* The Knight Drupal Initiative is an ongoing, open grant funding process for the Drupal open source project. We want to enable more people to enter the digital conversation by lowering the technical barriers to entry. We will provide powerful tools for digital publication, free and open to all. Our goal is to encourage people to improve their communities by supporting the free exchange of information and ideas.

[Updated with a cross-post to the marketing group.]

The Knight Drupal Initiative is an open grant process for Drupal projects. See http://groups.drupal.org/node/10459 for more information about the KDI.

Here's a current list of tasks that we need people to take on:

• Write some grant application tips for Proofread http://groups.drupal.org/node/10462 for clarity.

• Design a logo for the Knight Drupal Initiative! Done, considering no alternatives were submitted.

• Create some marketing materials that explain the program. These should include:

The following are frequently asked questions about the Knight Drupal Initiative.

If you have additional questions, please post them in the comments.

Knight Drupal Initiative program questions

• Who may submit a proposal to the KDI?

Anyone may register for the site and submit a proposal.

• Must my proposal involve Drupal?

Yes. This is a Drupal-specific program, sponsored by Knight Foundation.

• I live outside the United States, can I apply?

General guidelines

Creating a new proposal for the Knight Drupal Initiative is the first step in a larger grant process. Proposals that are supported by the Drupal community will be sent to Knight Foundation for formal review prior to funding. Applications sent to Knight Foundation may require additional information.

The Knight Drupal Initiative is an ongoing, open, public grant application and review process. Successful applications will be passed from the Drupal community to Knight Foundation for full review and possible funding.

There are no entry deadlines for submitting a proposal. We will review and cycle through proposals as they are made.

Anyone may apply.

You should review the KDI project goals and KDI Application Tips before you submit a proposal.

Community review

Knight Drupal Initiative project goals

Drupal and the Knight Foundation agree that open source digital publishing can enable powerful agents of transformation in their communities.

Knight Foundation is working with the Drupal community on the Knight Drupal Initiative with the following goals in mind:

• To enable more people to enter the digital conversation by lowering the technical barriers to entry.
• To provide powerful tools for digital publication, free and open to all.

Clarification posted. Sorry.

An FYI. The finalists list of projects under final consideration for the Knight News Challenge were announced today. This list does not include the 17 winners, to be announced in May. Of the 29 projects, 5 were Drupal-related. Drupal projects include:

• Aaron Presnall -- Mapping Local News – Building the Virtual Model of a Local Community
  http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/06.html

• Oiwan Lam -- Chinese-language platform for community journalism
  http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/17.html

Agenda

• Review Project Goals (http://groups.drupal.org/node/9891)
• Review Project Name (http://groups.drupal.org/node/9827)

• Review Proposal Content Type (http://groups.drupal.org/node/9863)

  Naming (Knight Drupal Initiative)

• Few suggestions on the discussion page
• Should not include "News Challenge" to avoid confusion

• Knight Drupal Initiative or KDI (Kay Dee Eye) (http://groups.drupal.org/knight-drupal-initiative) update your bookmarks

  Goals

  Drupal

• Drupal goals are outlined in the Drupal mission (http://www.drupal.org/mission)

  Knight

• Knight Foundation goals outlined on their fact sheet (http://www.knightfoundation.org/about_knight/fact_sheet.dot)

  KDI

• The KDI goals are inspired by the mutual goals of Drupal and the Knight Foundation

• Latest Draft (http://groups.drupal.org/node/9891)

  Proposal Format

• Dropped the multiple goals fields, we only need one field
• Added links to more information
• Indicated that a rough budget is required, and it needs to be refined later in the process

• There is a wiki page with the proposed changes (http://groups.drupal.org/node/10024)

  Next Steps

• Organize and clean up text
• Gather more volunteers
• Move on to marketing strategy

• Once we are production ready, ADVERTISE!

  Additional Notes

• Lullabot mentioned the KDI in a todays podcast (http://www.lullabot.com/audiocast/podcast-56-drupalcon-wrap)

Proposal summary
[Please describe your project's desired goals and outcomes, including the specific features and improvements that you propose. link to tips for writing a proposal]

How does your proposal meet the stated goals of the Knight Drupal Initiative program?
[link to goals page>]

How long will your project take to complete?
[Please outline the general schedule for the development and delivery of your project.]

How will you implement and distribute your project?
[Please list the people and companies involved in the project, their roles and your preliminary

15:00 EDT (US) (19:00 UTC) Friday on IRC [freenode] #drupalcon channel.

We are just about done with the infrastructure. We need to have our first check-in meeting and:

-- Finalize the name of the program
-- Sign off on work done to date
-- Determine next steps

The next steps are largely marketing related.