Knight Drupal Initiative

[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:

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.

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.

## Agenda
* Review Project Goals (http://groups.drupal.org/node/9891)
* Review Project Name (http://groups.drupal.org/node/9827)
* Review Proposal Content Type (http://groups.drupal.org/node/9863)

## Naming (Knight Drupal Initiative)
* Few suggestions on the discussion page
* Should not include "News Challenge" to avoid confusion
* Knight Drupal Initiative or KDI (Kay Dee Eye) (http://groups.drupal.org/knight-drupal-initiative) update your bookmarks

## Goals

### Drupal
* Drupal goals are outlined in the Drupal mission (http://www.drupal.org/mission)

### Knight
* Knight Foundation goals outlined on their fact sheet (http://www.knightfoundation.org/about_knight/fact_sheet.dot)

### KDI
* The KDI goals are inspired by the mutual goals of Drupal and the Knight Foundation
* Latest Draft (http://groups.drupal.org/node/9891)

## Proposal Format
* Dropped the multiple goals fields, we only need one field
* Added links to more information
* Indicated that a rough budget is required, and it needs to be refined later in the process
* There is a wiki page with the proposed changes (http://groups.drupal.org/node/10024)

## Next Steps
* Organize and clean up text
* Gather more volunteers
* Move on to marketing strategy
* Once we are production ready, ADVERTISE!

### Additional Notes
* Lullabot mentioned the KDI in a todays podcast (http://www.lullabot.com/audiocast/podcast-56-drupalcon-wrap)

Just a quick heads up. There's now a "create proposal" link in the group sidebar, meaning the node type is live. I've configured it mostly to meet Ken's refined list of questions, but we can of course change this at any time. We also have fivestar ratings, which I've taken a stab at titling. Many thanks to Moshe for doing the heavy lifting here. Feel free to use this thread to suggest tweaks and changes.

If you want to fill out a test proposal, just mark it as such and one of us admins will clear it out shortly.

Thanks to the tireless and amazing work of Mr. Moshe, we are now able to create our own content-type for prospective Drupal proposals with fivestar ratings. We're already getting some contributions in that vein, so it makes a lot of sense to me to get this built out ASAP so we don't lose any valuable ideas. Plus, I'd like to meet our initial goal of being able to accept submissions by March 17th.

Currently we're still waiting on some more bugfixing before the full power of og_panels is bestowed upon us, which will let us set up several group pages (e.g. guidelines, recent proposals, popular proposals, general group discussion, etc), but we can get started defining our intake form now, and get that online over the weekend.

Let's define ourselves a node-type! :)

Moved to official ideas list: http://drupal.org/node/237907

I want to propose a project for building a module that pulls news content from a global news service called Daylife (http://daylife.com)

Daylife is a global news aggregation service that offers an Open API platform called DayPI (http://developer.daylife.com) for any developer, blogger, news service to pull stories and photos about any topic in the world. The API returns data in XML, JSON and PHP serialized formats. You can read the Daylife About page at http://www.daylife.com/page/about to learn more about the company. All platform documentation is on http://developer.daylife.com/docs

Hi all!

Sorry for being absent, but we were in the middle of a board meeting and we are finishing the final phase of last year's Knight News Challenge contest.

First I want to thank you for sharing our excitement and for participating actively in this effort. Thank you all for your help and advice. It was a real pleasure meeting you at DrupalCon Boston and getting to know better your impressive community.