Collaborative Funding for Drupal Installation Profiles

Posted by mrosas on October 9th, 2009

Today, we’ve announced an exciting collaboration with the Open Media Project and the Drupal Association to help fund important work in the Drupal community. Both Open Media Project and Radio Engage are Knight News Challenge winners working to create tools on the Drupal platform for community TV and public radio, respectively.

Reflecting on our motivations for the Radio Engage project, we knew there had to be an easier way to get Drupal into a public radio station. Our goal has always been to lower the on ramp for Drupal implementations so that stations could leverage the full power that that Drupal has to offer. This project will lower that ramp significantly. The work that Drupal developers, Derek Wright and Chad Phillips, will accomplish in the coming months will allow the entire Drupal community to create more meaningful installation profiles.

We are delighted to participate in this project as it fosters a funding environment for core Drupal functionality. We have been the benefactors of Drupal
technology and this provides one way to give back. We look forward to more Drupal community funded ventures.

Interview with Lullabot

Posted by mrosas on May 21st, 2009

While attending DrupalCon in Washington, DC, Margaret was interviewed by Kent Bye from Lullabot about the project.  The interview provides an overview on the scope of the project and some perspective about the challenges of bringing Drupal into public media stations.

Diagram of Public Media

Posted by mrosas on March 11th, 2009

This is a diagram that arose out of a conversation at our Public Media
BarCamp last fall.  It has some elements specific to KUSP, our public radio
station, but the three main intersection points seem to be relevant to discussions about what and who is "Public Media".

Public Media Diagram

Current Module List for Radio Engage

Posted by mrosas on March 4th, 2009

We've compiled a list of the initial modules for the Radio Engage distribution. We would love to have community input on this set of modules.

Please leave your comments below. We'll be updating this list and also providing more documentation to explain their use and configuration in the coming weeks

RadioEngage

Posted by developer on February 26th, 2009

Radioengage is a project currently funded by the Knight Foundation to create a website powered by Drupal, specific to station needs in public broadcasting. The project will provide a Drupal install profile and documentation to make its adoption and use more accessible.

We will launch early iterations via our beta station kusp.org in the next month. We are clear that for this project to succeed in a larger scale, certain issues must be addressed:

  • A critical first step is to begin a network for communication between all Drupal users in public media. We will host conversation and provide project status here on RadioEngage and we are also in the process of establishing a Public Media group on groups.drupal.org
  • To the extent that a conversation was started with regard to the future of public media at IMA09, we would like to provide a forum to continue that dialogue in particular as it relates to technology.
  • We need to address issues of support and continuing module development, with both needing to be sustained on an on-going basis. We also envision the organization of local volunteer teams to support stations.

If this project aligns with needs and desires of your community, please join us. Register for a user account to be an active part of the RadioEngage network.

Knight Foundation Interview With Kristen Taylor

Posted by desiree on January 29th, 2009

Knight Foundation's Kristen Taylor asks Margaret about barcamps, coworking, and the future of public radio.

What is the future of public media stations? from Knight Pulse on Vimeo.

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