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.
- To encourage people to improve their communities by supporting the free exchange of information and ideas.
Knight Foundation believes that five basics define transformational projects:
- Discovery of the facts.
- The vision to see what's possible.
- The courage to push for change.
- The know-how to get it done.
- The tenacity that gets results.
Drupal's core mission statement is to enable such projects by providing an open technology platform:
By building on relevant standards and open source technologies, Drupal supports and enhances the potential of the Internet as a medium where diverse and geographically-separated individuals and groups can collectively produce, discuss, and share information and ideas. With a central interest in and focus on communities and collaboration, Drupal's flexibility allows the collaborative production of online information systems and communities.
Together, we are working to improve communities by providing a freely distributed, open source digital publishing platform. We are looking to fund proposals that achieve our mutual goals.
Proposal submission
Knight Foundation has asked the Drupal community to solicit, review and recommend projects for possible funding.
The application process is open and public. Anyone may submit an idea. Any registered member of the community may vote on ideas.
About Knight Foundation
Knight Foundation's signature work is its Journalism Program. Since 1950, the foundation has invested more than $300 million to advance quality journalism and freedom of expression worldwide. Today, the program focuses on leading journalism excellence into the digital age. We define journalism excellence as the fair, accurate, contextual pursuit of truth.
About Drupal
Drupal is an open source content management platform. Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal can support a variety of websites ranging from personal blogs, corporate brochures and large community-driven websites. Drupal is based on the open source philosophy of collaborative free software development and is licensed under the GPL. Drupal is itself open source and builds on and supports other open source projects.
Further information
For more information about the two organizations, see:
Knight Foundation
- http://www.knightfoundation.org
- http://www.knightfoundation.org/about_knight/fact_sheet.dot
Drupal
- http://drupal.org
- http://drupal.org/mission
- http://drupal.org/getting-started/project-features