KDI: Spread the word
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.
Program flyer
If you are attending a local Drupal user group meeting or a larger conference, you should print and distribute the program flyer. It provides a quick look at the program and its goals.
Human angle
What about a way to complement the technology of community building with a sort of mechanical turk or volunteer moderators. The service could be facillitated by drupal but leveraged by users of the tech.
My sense is that the Knight
My sense is that the Knight Foundation is looking for proposals on projects that make Drupal more accessible to others and to allow for community building. Check out the the program goals: http://groups.drupal.org/node/10459
That's very true. It appears
That's very true. It appears to me that Knight has decided (for now) that Drupal is the developing platform for new kinds of community journalism, and wants to help make it work for everyone.
The public square of the 21st century.
Matthew and Dan are right. Knight wants to help the public have a voice in the public square of the 21st century, the digital square. To do that Knight wants to help open-source software developers create new platforms that are easy to use by anyone, even those citizens who know little or nothing about technology, enabling them to discuss what happens in their communities, share ideas and seek solutions to the challenges their communities might be facing. These new platforms will hopefully fill the information needs of communities in a democracy, allowing citizens to receive the news and information they need to lead informed lives. One of the reasons Drupal is so special, is that it is has the support of an engaged community that shares these same ideas.
Jose Zamora
Journalism Program Associate
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation