anchor.diff:  <p>Send us an e-mail at <a href="mailto:info@documentcloud.org?subject=partnership">info@documentcloud.org</a>  and let us know you’re interested. We're building a small group of beta testers, and will be opening contributions up more widely during the development process. </p>
   
   <p><strong>When will it be ready?</strong></p>
  -<p>We're planning to begin introducing beta users in the Spring of 2010. </p>
  +<p>We're currently accepting beta users. Drop us a line if you'd like to be one. </p>
   
  -<p><strong>Will there be an API?</strong></p>
  -<p>Yes. </p>
  
positive.code: If you have a question that you don’t see answered, don’t hesitate to <a href="/about">contact us</a>.</p>
  
  <p><strong>What is it? </strong></p>
  <p>DocumentCloud will be software, a Web site, and a set of open standards that will make original source documents easy to find, share, read and collaborate on, anywhere on the Web. Think of it as a card catalog for primary source documents. It will accelerate the work of those doing investigations — whether reporters, bloggers or others.  </p>
  
  <p><strong>Yes, but what <em>is</em> it?</strong></p>
  <p>Ruby (<a href="http://rubyonrails.org/">Rails</a>, <a href="http://www.sinatrarb.com/">Sinatra</a>) and JavaScript. Take a look at <a href="http://github.com/documentcloud">our GitHub projects</a> and <a href="/blog/author/jeremy/">Jeremy’s blog posts</a> to get a better sense of the tools we’re using.  </p>
  
  <p><strong>Who can use it? </strong></p>
  <p>Once documents have been added to DocumentCloud, anyone will be able to find and share them. Users will be able to search for documents by things like date, topic, person, location, etc. and will be able to do “document dives” — collaboratively examining large sets of documents.  </p>
  <p>While anybody will be able to read documents, we’ll carefully vet the organizations who can add documents. </p>
  
  <p><strong>Who funds it? </strong></p>
  <p>The project has started thanks to a generous grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. It is a 2009 winner of a <a href="http://www.newschallenge.org/">Knight News Challenge</a> grant. Our grant runs two years and we’ll be soon be seeking sustaining funding. </p>
  
negative.code: <p><strong>Why are the New York Times and ProPublica getting grant funding? </strong></p>
  <p>They’re not. Journalists from the Times and ProPublica applied for the Knight News Challenge grant — and both organizations will use the service when they’re released — but DocumentCloud will be a completely separate organization. Neither the Times nor ProPublica will receive any money from this grant, and the Times and ProPublica journalists who made the grant proposal will be volunteering their time. </p>
  
  <p><strong>Can’t I already find documents using a search engine? </strong></p>
  <p>Search engines are very powerful; our goal is to make documents even easier to find on search engines. DocumentCloud will have information about documents and relations between them, for example what locations, people, or organizations a group of documents have in common. </p>
  
  
  <p><strong>Why would I want to share my documents? </strong></p>
  <p>Because it will make your documents more findable, more useful, and ultimately more popular. </p>
  