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

Wed Oct 29 11:56:08 PDT 2008

Pienso que "distribución" es la palabra más correcta, "prototipo"  
suena "cuadrado", "standar" y "normal". Yo creo que la idea esta en  
adaptar la experiencia de Indymedia como movimiento, militante y  
comprometido a las herramientas de esta generación (web 2.0,  
blablabla), para Indymedia y otros colectivos que necesiten de Drupal  
para crear un periodico virtual enfoncados a la calidad de la  
información y a la comunidad.

Una idea que tengo es potenciar el espiritu del multilinguismo dentro  
de la distribución que se pretende, por ejemplo en Bolivia una gran  
parte de la población habla Aymara o Quechua o 34 variedades más de  
idiomas, quiza internet aún no llego hasta donde viven, pero eso no  
justifica que la tecnología no este disponible en su idioma. En DRUPAL  
TRANSLATIONS http://drupal.org/project/Translations no existen  
traducción para algunos idiomas "minoritarios", quiza sea bueno  
tambien plantear la traducción como parte del proyecto.

IvAn

Mark
Bruno De Bondt <bruno at indymedia.be> ha escrito:

> Hi again,
>
> Re-read it, some more thoughts:
>
> - At the end of the 'Describe your project'-part, we currently write
> that some IMC's switched to Drupal 'with limited success'. I think it
> would be better to use 'with mixed success'. As far as IMC Belgium goes,
> the switch to Drupal has been really succesful, both in terms of the
> technology we got our hands on by switching to Drupal (quality of the
> system, security, development community and resources, ...), as well as
> the flexibilty that the system allows, etc. Also, if we use 'mixed', we
> indicate from the start that we have the know how to pull this off
> (which we really have, if you look at the list of people involved).
>
> - People here also commented on the 'How is your idea innovative'-part.
> As it is written now, the answer focuses on Indymedia, and not on the
> Drupal IMC platform. It may be more interesting to talk about the fact
> that we want to offer what Indymedia offered 9 years ago (= the ability
> to publish on the web) with state of the art technology anno 2008
> (Drupal). Said otherwise, we want to re-create what we built with
> sf-active, Dada, Mir, ... with today's tools (also refering to the video
> transcoding aspect in my last mail). This is really cool: people have
> the option today to publish whatever they like on the web with today's
> tools, but (mostly) in a commercial context. What's innovative and
> unique about our approach, is that we want to build something that
> allows people to do this in a non profit/non commercial context. This
> could be Indymedia, but could just as well be a social movement,
> affinity group, ... (I'm referring to the last sentence in the 'How will
> your project improve the way news and information are delivered ...'-part).
>
> talk to you soon,
> - bruno
>
> Bruno De Bondt wrote:
>> 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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