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:
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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 -
Antonio Profetto -- Online Collaborative 3d Story and 3d animators Resource
http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/25.html -
Ryan Szrama -- Drupal Advanced Survey Module with Geo-specific Result Reporting and Mapping
http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/26.html -
Richard Wyles -- The People's Times
http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/28.html
There is also a proposal -- very wrong and full of FUD, IMO -- to write a new CMS that is "friendlier" to Newspapers than Drupal.
http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/10.html
17 additional projects were chosen for funding. Those projects will be announced on May 14, 2008, at the E&P Interactive Media Conference in Las Vegas.
Comments
I found it a bit confusing
The wording on that page was a bit misleading.
That wasn't the finalists, it was a subset of the finalists. Specifically, the rejected finalists who had selected that their proposal be in the "open" category.
Looking forward to seeing the list on May 14th!
Tony Shawcross
Whatever your first issue of concern, media had better be your second, because without change in the media, the chances of progress in your primary area are far less likely. http://denveropenmedia.org
Whatever your first issue of concern, media had better be your second, because without change in the media, the chances of progress in your primary area are far less likely. http://denveropenmedia.org
I would phrase it a little differently
The list we posted were the finalists minus those that Knight Foundation has decided to fund. The ones we are funding, and the ones on that list, are all our finalists. As odd as it seems, it's really not that hard to blow through $5 million when you are funding big projects. Many of the ones Knight Foundation did not fund were not funded simply because the money ran out. The are still wonderful projects that deserve funding from someone, which is why we are publicly posting them.
My error
I did not understand that from the original post -- which I read too quickly.
I will amend the original post that I made here.
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http://ken.therickards.com/
http://savannahnow.com/user/2
http://blufftontoday.com/user/3
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http://ken.therickards.com/
This is great
I haven't reviewed the others, so this is no reflection on them, but Ryan Szarma's looks fantastic.
And we – especially those who met him at Drupalcon Boston – know he of Ubercart fame is fantastic.
So that's got my vote to be at the top of our recommendations.
benjamin, Agaric Design Collective
benjamin, agaric