Knight Foundation

Hello, all,

We have an alpha release ready of VoiceBox, our Knight Drupal Initiative project -

The project is a community media/feed aggregator/news space/conversation space. A high level run down of the featureset includes:

• Customizable user profiles;
• Discussions with embedded images, audio, and video;
• Publishing pictures, audio, and video via mobile devices and/or email;
• Content aggregation via rss;

I'm starting (okay, restarting) the Miami Drupal Group. We had an organizing meeting last week in Sunny Isles and our next two meetings are now set for downtown Miami at Knight Foundation offices for Feb. 24th and March 24th.

At our Feb. 24th meeting we'll review Drupalcamp and Wordcamp, plan for FOWA Miami and hopefu...lly talk about municipal wireless projects.

At the March 24th meeting we'll look at the winning projects of the Knight Drupal Initiative.

Find us in Drupal Groups and join (free of course) at [http://groups.drupal.org/node/2175].

Hello all Drupal Dojo users! I thought it would be a good idea to have some Drupal ninjas read and comment my proposal to the Knight Foundation for faveeo.com as the deadline is coming quickly for the news challenge and we hope to get the best proposal as possible!

If you are interested in the topics of information management, social agregation, information overload and community-based news networks, please have a look!

The idea is simply to get some ideas going and get some constructive critizism from the Drupal Dojo about this quite complex project!

As we near the completion of year-1 of the Open Media Project, I thought it might be useful to provide a brief history so-far. Part of my agreement in winning the Knight News Challenge grant that made the Open Media Project possible was to post frequent updates to the PBS Idealab Blog. Looking back, those entries provide a good timeline of year-1, and a look forward at year 2.

You can see all 10 entries at http://www.pbs.org/idealab/tony_shawcross_1/

Quick post to let Indymedia folks know that the Knight Drupal Initiative, hosted as another group here on g.d.o, is taking applications. I don't think this has been crossposted yet. I personally would be interesting in working with people on Indymedia-benefiting proposals.

^{benjamin, Agaric Design Collective}

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 annual 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 annual, 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. Note that some answers have changed after the 2008 program.

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

Knight Drupal Initiative program questions

• When does the KDI start to accept proposals?

Applications for 2008 are now closed. The program will reopen in 2009. See http://groups.drupal.org/node/16348 for details.

• When is the final date to admit new proposals?

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.