grants

Last week at Drupalcon in Boston I realised that it's just not possible to apply for a development FP7 (the 7th Framework Program of the European Union) for Drupal. Things are going so fast that any plan would be obsolete before the project could get granted. That's why I think it would be the most interesting to do a proposal for a series of expert meetings throughout Europe that brings together people to discuss their implementation of the semantic web in Drupal, every time followed by a code sprint.

[This is a cross-post from my blog.]

We had a very successful BoF on Wednesday. The goal was to discusss how the Drupal community would manage our relationship with the Knight Foundation.

For those who were not at DrupalCON, here are the basics:

-- The Knight Foundation (KF) provides funding for open-source development, products and innovations that are in line with their core goal: improving communities through the free exchange of news and information.

The Sunlight Foundation has 10 minigrants of $1000-$5000 to give away
this year, so please let your networks know, and apply yourself -- all
the details are here:

http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/node/2058

The grants are for creative projects that serve Sunlight's purpose of
using technology to strengthen the link between Members of Congress
and the people they represent -- through Metavid-like video or
AZCongress-Watch like close reporting.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Zephyr