FORWARDING: [mojo] Welcome to Knight-Mozilla OpenNews (fwd)
Bill Densmore
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 08:06:38 -0500
From: Daniel Sinker <dans...@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Discuss the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership
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Subject: [mojo] Welcome to Knight-Mozilla OpenNews
Hi all,
Super thrilled to announce changes to the Knight-Mozilla Partnership
today, including a new name!
The full announcement blog is here:
http://sinker.tumblr.com/post/17207538743/the-knight-mozilla-partnership-evolves
Brand-new site (a single page for now) lives here: http://mozillaopennews.org
Here's a quick rundown of what's changing:
+ We re helping to sponsor and organize more than a dozen hackdays
around the world this year. Hackdays are one of the best ways to get
developers from all over to experiment with the idea of coding for
journalism, and a great way to get some open-source code back into the
community.
+ We ll be increasing the opportunities for online learning that
address the needs of the high-end developers we want to get interested
in journalism, as well as a separate track for journalists who want to
start becoming webmakers.
+ We re also developing a stand-along site, Source, dedicated to
shining a spotlight on the vital work going on in the journalism code
community through case studies, walkthroughs, tutorials, code
snippets, and much more.
+ The biggest element of the Partnership, our Knight-Mozilla
Fellowships, stays a vital center to the program. And in 2012 it
grows from five year-long fellowships to eight. There are some other
changes in store for the Fellowships as well, which will be announced
soon.
This is super, super exciting. Tons of new opportunites!
Dan