[Imc-drupal-dev] Grant Proposal: 2ND DRAFT

[Bruno De Bondt]

Hi,

The second draft looks really good imho.

Some thoughts:

- I don't know if 'prototype' is the right word for what we want to
build. Would 'distribution' be more suitable?

- I think the part about the geographical communities ("How will your
project improve the way news and information are delivered to geographic
communities?") may need to be rewritten to emphasise on the local aspect
of the project - I've heard from several people that the "locality
dimension" is important for the News Challenge grants. So perhaps focus
more on the 'organising platform to report local news etc'-part there?
In any case, i would use the word 'local' a couple of times in that
paragraph :-)

- Another thing that we (Belgium Imc) would really like to look at is
how to get video transcoding and distribution going in a decent way. We
would like to offer a video solution to our reporters where uploaded
video is transcoded to Flash video automatically and where people are
able to embed it in their own site. From a pure technical perspective,
this may not seem to be such a problem (there's FFmpeg, and Media Mover
looks pretty cool). It's mostly a matter of getting the infrastructure
right (distributed transcoding, going through a CDN etc). Anyways, it's
something we will be looking into. And it might be cool to be able to
offer this as part of the Drupal IMC platform (even though an IMC would
still need the funds to set up the infrastructure etc. Or could we use a
shared transcoding server?)

- The imc-cms (and indeed imc-tech) lists might also be good places to
forward this to, even if it were only to keep people up to date with
what's happening in Indymedia-Drupal-land.

Some other people here are reviewing the second draft - so I might send
some other things over later.

Sofia, thanks a bunch for putting this all together!
talk to you soon,
- bruno



Sofia JarrinT wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Thanks in advance to everyone who sent suggestions for the Knight Foundation Grant proposal for an Indymedia Drupal prototype. You can view it here:
>
> http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Devel/ImcDrupalDev
>
> "NEWSCHALLENGEPROPOSAL.v2.doc:"
>
> I have tried my best to incorporate ideas, but I would love for people to review it carefully and make sure it makes sense (particularly the last section on expertise).
>
> DEADLINE:
> Please review changes for Wednesday, October 29.
>
> MONEY:
> I am asking for $200,000. Roughly calculating 6-10 developers working on it, plus $50,000 for training and Tech support for IMCs that don't have Drupal developers. Is that too much?! Too little?
>
> TIMELINE:
> Amount to finalize project: 1 year (considering our decentralization, I think that's a good way to go). Comments?
>
> Here are the IMCs that are in so far:
>
>     * Boston Imc
>     * Belgium Imc 
>     * Indybay Imc 
>     * UK Imc
>     * St. Louis Imc
>     * Columbus Imc
>     * Scotland Imc
>     * Arizona Imc
>     * Bolivia Imc
>     * Bolivia Imc
>     * Germany Imc
>     * Venezuela Imc
>
> IMC-TECH?
> Should we forward this email to the Imc-Tech list to see if there's anyone else who wants to join? 
>
> best,
> Sofia J.
> Boston Imc
>
>
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