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Clarification posted. Sorry.

An FYI. The finalists list of projects under final consideration for the Knight News Challenge were announced today. This list does not include the 17 winners, to be announced in May. Of the 29 projects, 5 were Drupal-related. Drupal projects include:

• Aaron Presnall -- Mapping Local News – Building the Virtual Model of a Local Community
  http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/06.html

• Oiwan Lam -- Chinese-language platform for community journalism
  http://www.newschallenge.org/top_proposals/17.html

## 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)

Thanks to all of you for following up on the DrupalCon discussion. It is exciting and fascinating that Knight Foundation is providing this special funding to worthy projects. I realize there is going to be much more information coming here but this is one question I didn't quite see addressed in the threads below and I think merits discussion.

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! :)

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.

Hi everyone,

(I've moved this post from an earlier sub-thread.)

When the time is right I can work with the group to come up with a design for the marketing artwork.
The components aren't entirely clear, but these are probably necessary:

-- KF/GDO Proposal graphic
-- Banner for GDO
-- color palette for KF and GDO shared ID.
-- Wording presentation outlining the shared objectives
-- Type