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Kendra gets funding from EU...

Well, we did it. Kendra Foundation has received seedling EU funding for 4 years as a partner in P2P-Next [1] along with the BBC, Pioneer, STMicroelectronics, the EBU and many others.

This is a really great opportunity for Kendra Initiative. The grant brings the project stability and solidity. It's a recognition and validation of the goal of an open distributed marketplace for digital media. Many thanks to Mark Stuart of Pioneer for inviting us in.

NEED MORE CASH

However, we need to raise 25% of the budget [2]. That's 61397.50 EUR over 4 years. That's a really doable amount. At less than 16K EUR a year [3] it's a small amount to pay if we can get 20 Kendra Initiative members a year donating a few hundred Euros. Please contact me if you are interested.

The current grant means that Kendra Foundation can employ myself and Neil Harris (no relation) to really dig deep into content value chain interoperability issues. Specifically we will be working on Kendra Signposts [4] cross media metadata tools. We'll be liaising with content owners and service providers. And running trials and demonstrations throughout the period.

WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT

We are also looking to raise funds for to develop the Kendra website using Drupal [5] CMS. We can legitimately syphon off a small part of the EU grant for website development but, in order to really maximise on functionality (for the users: you!), we really need to bring extra people on board with Drupal skills. And that means having a dedicated website budget. Again, contact me if you can support financially or with Drupal skills.

P2P-NEXT MEETINGS IN MILAN AND LONDON

I will be in Milan (April 14 and 15) and London (June 9 and 10) for P2P-Next meetings with a few days either side. So, please get in touch if you want to meet up and talk about the next 4 years and beyond.

[1] http://www.p2p-next.org [2] http://www.kendra.org.uk/wiki/wiki.pl?P2P-NextFinances [3] 15349.38 EUR = 12213.10 GBP = 24225.90 USD [4] http://www.kendra.org.uk/wiki/wiki.pl?KendraSignposts [5] http://drupal.org

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