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Tides Center (Documenting Drupal)

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Tides Center (Documenting Drupal)

To expand the users of Drupal by creating clear, easier to use operating instructions. (Knight Drupal Initiative)

Date Awarded: 02/26/2009
Amount: $50,500.00
Grant Period: 03/01/2009 to 09/29/2010
Program: Journalism
Community: Journalism

This grant is part of the Knight Drupal Initiative, a contest that tapped into a community of software developers to help the foundation make better technology grants. Drupal is an open source software package that allows anyone to start a news and information site. The software developers who improve it on a volunteer basis number more than 300,000. Millions download and use the software. Many of those users do not have extensive backgrounds in Web technology. Having clear, concise, up-to-date documentation is essential for the technically inexperienced who want to get a Web site implemented. Lack of good, accessible documentation leaves an extremely useful tool out of reach for many people.

This grant will make the Drupal software easier to use by allowing more than two million current users to take full advantage of its capabilities, and by enabling more people with little or no technical knowledge to begin using it. We expect that by using Drupal, more people will be able to exchange ideas, news and information and increase the number of annual Drupal downloads.

Project Contact:
Website: http://drupal.org/aggregator/sources/132

Filed Under: Knight Drupal Initiative Drupal Berry

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Tides Center (The Extraordinaries w Jacob Colker)
Date Awarded: 07/23/2009
Amount: $250,000.00
Grant Period: 08/01/2009 to 11/30/2010
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Tides Center (World Summit Award, Jessica Garza)
Date Awarded: 04/15/2009
Amount: $53,200.00
Grant Period: 04/01/2009 to 11/30/2009
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Tides Center ("The Daily Phoenix" w Adam Klawonn)
Date Awarded: 03/09/2009
Amount: $100,700.00
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Tides Center ("CMS Upload Utility" w Joe Boydston, McNaughton Newspaper Group)
Date Awarded: 03/09/2009
Amount: $10,600.00
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Tides Center (MediaBugs, w Scott Rosenberg)
Date Awarded: 03/08/2009
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Tides Center (Drupal for Facebook by Dave Cohen)
Date Awarded: 02/26/2009
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Tides Center (LocalPublishing by Bill Fitzgerald)
Date Awarded: 02/26/2009
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Tides Center (OpenMicroBlogging for Drupal by Rob Loach)
Date Awarded: 02/26/2009
Amount: $40,240.00
Grant Period: 03/01/2009 to 09/29/2010
Program: Journalism
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Tides Center (Managing News by Ian Cairns of Development Seed)
Date Awarded: 02/26/2009
Amount: $195,000.00
Grant Period: 03/01/2009 to 09/29/2010
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