I have been quiet recently. (There are good reasons for that which I will not bore people with.)

But we are about ready to make some noise in the Drupal community by opening the Knight Drupal Initiative to proposals.

For those of you who were not at DrupalCON Boston, here is the short summary of where we are:

• Knight Foundation came to us with an idea for funding Drupal-related projects.
• After some great community meetings, we came up with an open proposal process for applying for grant money.
• There will be an ongoing process of applying for Knight Drupal Initiative grants.
• The Drupal community will filter and recommend proposals. Knight Foundation will provide funding and management for accepted applications.

As I said, we are just about ready to announce the program as ready for proposals. But first we have a few tasks to clean up.

If you have a few minutes, please look over the task list and pitch in. We especially need some :

• Editors to look over the documentation for clarity.
• Designers to make us a nifty logo.
• Marketers to write us some good copy for promoting the KDI in the community.

Hats off to JoshK, John Britton, MatthewS and Moshe for their hard work on this to date.

(And, yes, we have taken a while to launch the initiative. But that was so we could all help get Summer of Code going for this year without distracting from its very important mission.)