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Knight Foundation's NewsChallenge offers funding fo innovative projects
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created on Fri, 2008-10-03 11:33 Grant Event on Monday
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Grant Event on Monday
Raincity Studios is hosting the Vancouver stop for NewsChallenge - a project by the Knight Foundation. The event is at the RCS HQ at 1 Alexander St. in Gastown on Monday, October 6th from 7-9PM.
The event features web veteran Susan Mernit who is driving the NewsChallenge project for Knight. Follow knc08 on Twitter to get micro-updates on their tour.
To attend, you must RSVP so check out the NewsChallenge Meetup Facebook event and/or Upcoming listing for NewsChallenge to express your attendance.
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Basically, this is a worldwide campaign to grant $5 Million to digital media experiments and which will innovate journalism. Certainly, Drupal, CMS, RSS (and other acronyms) are all part of the mix of tools which contemporary journalist use to spread their message in an engaging and participatory manner. The press release tells more about the big picture.
How Drupal Can Help Change The World
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created on Wed, 2008-08-27 01:40
Great Net Tuesday about Drupal and Non Profits tonight (check out the comprehensive as usual Mis 604 Live Blog from the event).
I'll lead with the last presentation, the genocide (with a spotlight on Darfur) prevention site, StandNow.org from Agentic that
Open Source CMS News Round-up - Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla etc.
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created on Tue, 2008-06-24 11:07 
You probably saw all of these articles already but ... in case you missed any ... get comfy, pour a beverage and do some reading about Open Source CMSs in the news:
Drupal and The Future of News
Tech writer Kurt Cagle from Open Source Pixels {cribbed article bio: managing editor of XML.com, lives in Victoria, British Columbia, and is beginning to wonder what happened to summer - Ed note: Ditto on the summer ;-)} offers a wide-ranging narrative about his experiences with Drupal, (including a name-check of Bryght/Raincity Studios) in his June 1, 2008 article. Well worth a read for his interesting historical and technical perspectives.
Open Source Culture from Romania to Vancouver - Raincity Radio
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With the eLiberatica conference in Bucharest, Romania {see also: eLiberatica 2008 in Romania - The benefits of Open and Free Technologies} approaching, Raincity Radio host DaveO, along with Boris Mann, sit down with two noteworthy presenters, Zak Greant and David Ascher, to discuss the importance of open source in emerging economies, various Mozilla Foundation projects (including MoFo, MoCo, MoMo), plus a casual conversation about OS community building and management, Romanian cuisine, prawn fishing, and developer culture in Europe and Vancouver.
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Drupal Camp Mania! Shanghai Open Source and Drupal Camp May 17-18
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created on Mon, 2008-04-21 13:15 
The Drupal community movement carries on to all corners of the globe with volunteer-run, peer-taught Drupal Camps! The Raincity Studios crew will proudly participate at events coming up in Vancouver, Canada, Sydney, Australia (for the entire Asia/Pacific region) and now, a newly-announced camp in Shanghai, China in conjunction with Open Source Camp Shanghai.
