The Knight News Challenge recently extended its online submission deadline to December 15th to attract a broader applicant pool, particularly targeting software developers and entrepreneurs. The 4th annual Knight News Challenge, www.newschallenge.org , sponsored by the Knight Foundation, awards up to $5 million a year for innovative uses of digital technology that will help to transform news and information sharing. The competition is currently accepting applications and previous winners have included several members of the Drupal community.
The Challenge seeks ideas that will change how community news and information gets distributed. The competition asks applicants to submit their ideas for use of digital, open source technology to distribute news and information in the public interest in a defined geographic community. Past winners include:
* Radio Engage (Radio Drupal), using Drupal, this winner created a turnkey web site for radio news organizations.
* Benjamin Melançon, Co-founder of Agaric Design Collective, and a Google Summer of Code student for Drupal won for the development of a "Related Items" module for Drupal.
* Lisa Williams, for Placeblogger which was developed using Drupal's built in aggregation ability.
See this drupal.org front page post to learn more: http://drupal.org/node/655322