[development] Knight Drupal Initiative launch

[Ken Rickard]

Announcing the Knight Drupal Initiative
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The Knight Drupal Initiative is now accepting grant applications.  Anyone
may apply at http://groups.drupal.org/knight-drupal-initiative.

Application is a two-stage process.  First, an open community review will
select proposals for submission to Knight Foundation.  After submission,
Knight Foundation will have final approval over grant funding.  More
information is available at http://groups.drupal.org/node/10461.

There are no deadlines for submission.  The program establishes an ongoing
grant review process.  New proposals will be reviewed monthly by the Knight
Foundation.


About the program
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Together, Drupal and the Knight Foundation are working to improve
communities by providing a freely distributed, open source digital
publishing platform. We are looking to fund proposals that achieve our
mutual goals.

Drupal and the Knight Foundation agree that open source digital publishing
can enable powerful agents of transformation in their respective
communities.

Together, we are working to improve communities by providing an open
democratic platform in the digital age.

We provide funding for grant proposals that achieve our mutual goals by
using and improving the Drupal platform.

More information can be found on the KDI Frequently Asked Questions page at
http://groups.drupal.org/node/10464.


Proposal guidelines
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A good proposal should improve or leverage Drupal in order to meet the
stated goals of the program.  When writing your proposal:

  * Be clear and concise when answering the questions.
  * Be sure that both novices and experts will understand what you propose.
  * Be honest and positive when describing your proposal

For more tips, see http://groups.drupal.org/node/10462.


Introductory meeting
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With the launch of the Knight Drupal Initiative, many people have questions.

Ken Rickard will host a live IRC chat on Monday, June 2nd, starting at 15:00
EDT [UTC - 4:00].

The chat will be held in #drupal-dojo on freenode.

For information about IRC, see http://drupal.org/node/108355

For more on the KDI, see http://groups.drupal.org/knight-drupal-initiative



Note
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[This note also went to registered members of the KDI group.  Please forgive
the cross-post.]

-- 
Ken Rickard
agentrickard at gmail.com
http://ken.therickards.com
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