Knight Drupal Initiative
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.
Applications are currently closed.
KDI Status
The KDI is currently on hiatus, pending additional funding for new initiatives. In 2009, over $480,000 (USD) was granted to 6 Drupal projects.
We encourage discussion on new proposals and alternative sources of funding for projects that will assist Drupal and its mission. We hope to re-open the KDI at a later date.
Recent proposals
Recent group posts
Typical compensation for Knight News and similar funded projects
This poll revolving around the Knight News Challenge (http://www.newschallenge.org/) provides a good indicator of what developers usually get paid for a funded project - looks like the range of $50-100/hr is the norm (http://twtpoll.com/z0e5kz). I'm curious to 1) is this typical for other Drupal projects (possibly people could take the poll; 2) how much non-developers (pm, marketing, documentation, etc.) are being compensated; 3) how this compares to a client job (non-profit or other).
Ken? KDI Next Stages...
Hi Ken,
I wasn't at DC so I may have missed vital information...
Please could you clarify what the next stages for KDI are? Or give me an idea of when you'll know the next stages?
The reason is I want to tell Kendra Initiative members (over 2000) about Kendra Hub but I'm concerned that we'll have to resubmit it in a new format and hence any comments or votes we get will be lost.
What do you suggest I do? Are we sticking with the same process?
Cheers Daniel
Knight Drupal Initiative Announcement
Just announced from the DrupalCon stage:
The Knight Drupal (an open source content management system) Initiative’s winners (background on this project), announced at the DrupalCon DC Conference, will receive a total of $485,380 to:
* Create concise, up-to-date instructions for Drupal software packages so that tech novices can use the tools; (Winner: Programmer Addison Berry/ add1sun)
*Create a free publishing system to make it easier for several geographic communities to share local news with each other; (Winner: Oregon-based funnymonkey.com (billfitzgerald)
Open Source Made Easy - Full Drupal Sites & Reciples Installed instantly.. and for "free"
Would you like a website as functonal as one of the top drupal newspaper sites. Would you like that for Free and deployed in 2 minutes.. Wouldn't it be nice if you could just click a button and have a full site installed .. that works.
This is what the Simple Idea makes possible
The current installation and configuration process for Drupal is a significant barrier to entry for:
- Not For Profits
- Charities
- SMEs
- Developers
Currently Drupal and other CMS are difficult to set up for end users - ie not developers.
Open Media Camp
UPDATE: Open Media Camp planning, session proposals, conversations, rsvp, etc have all been moved to the new camp site at: http://www.openmediacamp.org
Kendra Hub - Media Asset/Content Management, Semantic Syndication/Promotion and Commerce Tool
http://www.knightpulse.org/ Header Links
Hello Everyone,
I was checking out the KnightPulse site, and noticed the header links have all these strange letters at the end of the links for the style sheet calls. I am hoping someone in this group might have an idea of what is causing this, and if it is normal ?
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We Media Changemakers $50,000 Challenge
I received the following invite via email today.
Rework Memetracker/CRE modules and write Profile API
[It looks like I'm a bit late to the party :) But please, anyone who is interested in this functionality, review and rate this project so it'll be ready to roll come next spring. . . thanks!]
All organizations, large and small, have a vital need to deliver relevant and timely information to its members. My project will be to make it possible for organizations to easily meet this need. I will improve two Drupal modules, write a new module, and write documentation so that organizations can easily add sophisticated news aggregation and recommendation tools into their Drupal website.
Call for help.. with unique website deployment solution. - OpenSourceMadeEasy
i know that we have missed the deadline for 2008, but i'd still like to discuss something we've been working on quietly for the last year, in summary.. it lets anyone - especially the non-technical - role out websites, template those websites and again roll them out. they can be rolled out by others as well..
conceptually this will allow for
1) building of really rich templates - imagine the drupal.org site .. as a fully featured site.. as a template
2) templates can include content, tags etc..
3) installing a template site.. currently takes.. c. 1min.. seriously