The Knight Foundation has created an innovative grant program known as the Knight Foundation News Challenge. Through this program the Knight Foundation seeks to fund development of open-source technologies that create a sense of connection in communities. As Lyceum is designed to facilitate blogging and news-sharing in communities of any sort, we feel that we’re well-suited for this grant proposal.
Under active development for close to three years, Lyceum is preparing to release its 1.0 version. Along the way, hundreds of communities have tested Lyceum, and our support community has grown substantially. With this Knight Foundation grant, we will be able to take Lyceum development to the “next level”, by employing a full-time developer, as well as supporting a hosting platform at ibiblio. Of course, Lyceum will remain free, open-source and focused on developing enterprise-class technology to facilitate community blogging.
We write to ask that you support us as we seek support from the Knight Foundation. To do so, we ask that you write us a “Letter of Support.” A letter of support affirms the value of Lyceum and its ongoing development, its quality and worthiness of funding, and any other nice things you can think of. These letters will be very important in the committee’s decision, so we ask that you please consider writing one for Lyceum. If you’d like to write a letter of support, we ask that you do so by October 10, 2007. Please send it directly to Fred Stutzman, project manager, at fred@metalab.unc.edu. Thank you very much for your help and assistance, as always!
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