These notes are based largely on our last IRC meeting and community input for the KDI review process.

Our next review meeting will be August 7th in #drupal-dojo at 19:00 UTC. We have three proposals up for review this round.

– http://groups.drupal.org/node/11859
– http://groups.drupal.org/node/13071
– http://groups.drupal.org/node/12721

Participants are asked to review these proposals before the meeting. For more information, see KDI on groups.drupal.org.

During the last review meeting, Local Publishing Platform and Regional Aggregation Hub was passed to Knight for funding review. Potentially bringing $70,000 (USD) for Drupal development.

We are always looking for new proposals — see the program information for more details.

Well, alright. Just under two weeks later, we have a roof over our heads again. Big thanks to Matt at First General and to Jay and Red (and crew) from Premier Construction.

Last night we almost got hit by another thunderstorm — hail and 60 mph winds were reported in the county. But it never rained at the house, which is good, since the roof wasn’t fully shingled yet.

The construction started before 6:00 each of the last three days. Until today. the high in Augusta was over 102°, so they wanted to get working before it became too hot.

News12 in Augusta has some storm damage video now. Most of the cleanup footage was shot at our house, and the first video includes shots from the inside before we did any cleanup.

Try: this first night footage and the cleanup video

These links may change as the video is archived.

News12, by the way, was very respectful and we especially thank Melissa Tune and her cameraman (whose name I did not get) for their sensitivity on Thursday night.

I will be offline for quite a bit over the next few weeks. We suffered some severe storm damage yesterday. Everyone is ok, but we have lots of work to do to get our house back in shape.

See Day one Flickr set for more or the Morning after set.

A big thanks, by the way, to all the guys from Stallion and First General for their work last night.

After the cleanup, we have this:

During a community vote on #drupal-dojo yesterday, the KDI proposal by Bill Fitzgerald and Marc Poris of FunnyMonkey.com was approved to be passed to Knight Foundation for final review. If accepted, the proposal could bring more than $70,000 USD for active Drupal development.

This is a very exciting step for the KDI project, and in the coming week,s look for more information about the program — and more ways that you can get involved.

Below is an edited version of the announcement sent to Bill and Marc.

Congratulations! The Drupal community has voted to approve your proposal for the Knight Drupal Inititative titled “Local Publishing Platform and Regional Aggregation Hub”.

Your project has been filed in the official project list at:

http://drupal.org/project/issues/knight

The next step is to introduce you to Knight Foundation. They can help you through the next stage of the application process.

If you have any questions about the process or need assistance with your application, please add a comment to the issue:

http://drupal.org/node/281048

Again, congratulations on behalf of the Knight Drupal Initiative.

- Ken Rickard
Lead volunteer
Knight Drupal Initiative

For more information about the KDI, or to submit your project, visit http://groups.drupal.org/knight-drupal-initiative.