At yesterday’s open review meeting — read the transcript — two proposals were approved and sent on to the Knight Foundation for potential funding.

• Information-Sharing using FeedAPI and Buddylist is Nick Vidal’s proposal to fund scholarships for development of a project sponsored by the Brazilian Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.
• Facebook Application for Personal or Community Online Newspaper is Dave Cohen’s proposal to expand and host his Drupal for Facebook module.

Combined, these proposals could bring $90,000 (USD) to Drupal development, and introduce new student developers to the Drupal platform.

We now have one open proposal, NewsCloud Newsroom Module, which is being redrafted based on feedback from the community.

Exciting times, to be certain, but we still need more community involvement. If you can take a half hour per month to review the active proposals, we could really start to see some progress. If you are going to a local user meetup, present some of the promotional material or print and distribute the program flyer.