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[danso]

They've done this previously with DocumentCloud:

http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/20083268/

Which is still active and widely used among news organizations, but is probably better known for the JavaScript libraries that were abstracted from it during development: Underscore and Backbone

[ma2rten → danso]

Also CoffeeScript.

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Coffeescript was not funded by the Knight Foundation and was not developed for DocumentCloud.

Jeremy started Coffeescript as a personal project in his off time while building out DocumentCloud/Backbone/Underscore.

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It was still funded by them, albeit indirectly :P Actually a great example of the kinds of halo effects you can get from funding open source development