Opportunity to work on a community project related to radio!

More details after the jump :).
Hello everyone!
I don't know if I can make it out tomorrow but I have a really exciting project to work on that's extremely community oriented. As you also have probably heard, the state of journalism and media (and ways to save it) is being debated around the world with traditional media forms (such as newspapers) falling by the wayside. Here at soundFM (CKMS-FM), we are no stranger to the stress of people questioning our relevancy.

The obvious need then: to innovate.

Right now at Radio Waterloo Inc (CKMS-FM) we are working with joomla but we're looking to make the switch to drupal pending our work with the folks at vocalo.org. We have a tentative agreement that we're going to work together to foster similar awesomeness they made happen in Indiana/Illinois right here in the Region of Waterloo. We are still working out the details regarding code and how that will be managed but to make a long story short, we will be probably using their codebase (which is based on scald) and then customizing it for our needs. At the very least, even if we don't implement vocalo directly and completely, we would want to design a new site from scratch in drupal anyway. An exciting incentive: we have an awesome graphics designer who will commit pending he has awesome software people (like drupal-ites) to work with.

Is anyone interested to volunteer their time to work on this very exciting project? I will note that we are a registered charity!

For now, the project would be volunteer-based but we could apply for a lot of grant funding given the type of activities we are doing.

Cheers,
Nate

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Nathan Vexler
Radio Waterloo Inc
soundFM 100.3
soundfm.ca
Special Projects Coordinator