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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.

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".

Margaret kicks off the blogging on IdeaLab with an overview of the project to date.