{"id":2946,"date":"2010-01-06T16:45:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T21:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2946"},"modified":"2010-01-07T20:10:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T01:10:33","slug":"wired-campus-mellon-foundation-closes-grant-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2946","title":{"rendered":"Wired Campus: Mellon Foundation Closes Grant Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mellon Research in Information Technology program is being closed according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/\">Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a> story by Marc Parry titled, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogPost\/In-Potential-Blow-to\/19519\/?sid=pm&amp;utm_source=pm&amp;utm_medium=en\">In Potential Blow to Open-Source Software, Mellon Foundation Closes Grant Program<\/a>.&#8221; (Jan. 5, 2010.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mellon described the change as part of an effort to &#8220;consolidate resources&#8221; and concentrate on core program areas like the liberal arts, scholarly communications, and museums. RIT will merge into the Scholarly Communications program, which will manage its existing grants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This program funded <a href=\"http:\/\/rit.mellon.org\/projects\">a number of really cool projects<\/a> like Zotero, SAKAI, and Fedora. I wonder what will happen to ongoing projects like Bamboo that are not yet off the ground?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Bamboo has been &#8220;smoothly migrated into the Scholarly Communications program.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mellon Research in Information Technology program is being closed according to a Chronicle of Higher Education story by Marc Parry titled, &#8220;In Potential Blow to Open-Source Software, Mellon Foundation Closes Grant Program.&#8221; (Jan. 5, 2010.) Mellon described the change as part of an effort to &#8220;consolidate resources&#8221; and concentrate on core program areas like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2946\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wired Campus: Mellon Foundation Closes Grant Program<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,17,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-and-administration","category-humanities-computing","category-media-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2952,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions\/2952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}