(I don't know if this is off-topic, especially in the middle of getting to 5.0, but I wanted to bring it up the opportunity among Drupal developers. Full note posted at <a href="http://drupal.org/node/86325">http://drupal.org/node/86325
</a> )<br><br>The
Knight Brothers 21st Century News Challenge hopes to recognize
transformative ideas, pilot projects, leadership initiatives and
investment opportunities that will help improve the flow of journalism,
information and news in the public interest." (with a total of $5M given out in 2007, application deadline the end of November.)
<p>Here's the link to the guidelines and simple application: <a href="http://newschallenge.org/" title="http://newschallenge.org/" rel="nofollow">http://newschallenge.org/</a></p>
<p>My own agenda is working with others to create various parts of a
universal, democratic communications network (neither unmoderated nor
moderated, but with prominence decided by random juries of people in
the network). ... Mostly I hope people put in really strong applications to this
foundation for any kind of Drupal project, as anything that benefits
Drupal benefits all of us, and quite honestly benefits the goals of the
Knight Brothers foundation too.</p>....there's people giving away money for a good cause
(with a leaning toward open source) that could absolutely benefit
Drupal, the application is fairly easy, and I'd love to collaborate with people to get more money to do better things for more projects!
<p>You can reach me through my contact form or at my cell phone, 508
737 0582. Thanks!</p><p>More, including a link to proposal I made to fund the creation of a Related Items module, at <a href="http://drupal.org/node/86325">http://drupal.org/node/86325</a><br></p>