I’m very interested in and excited about this project. In 2010, I lead the effort to develop a custom news CMS on WordPress in the Reese Felts Digital Newsroom at UNC Chapel Hill School of Journalism. My plan was to build the theme and then to open source the theme and associated add-on plugins for other EDU-connected local journalism organizations to use for their newsrooms. Unfortunately, my boss was let go for having an inappropriate relationship with a student, but the fundamentals of what we were trying to achieve were still valid and it shows today with this announcement that we were on the right track. It’s unfortunate what happened and that effort never expanded out beyond the news theme we developed, but I’m glad to see that there’s an initiative out there and it’s gotten some support from Google and other foundations. This is important work, for sure.