[greenstone_es] Re: Felicidades a Prodigio (Diego Spano y su equipo)

Felicidades Diego!!!
Un abrazo de todo el personal de la Biblioteca Digital de la UCA


Lic. Claudia Fernández
Responsable del Sector Referencia y Servicios Bibliográficos
Biblioteca Central - UCA
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Del Blog de Greenstone: 
http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2009-05-04/waikato-visit-report-from-john-rose-2/

In 2008, the University of Waikato a received a Grant from the Mellon 
Foundation to promote contributions to the Greenstone Digital Library 
suite which provide significant benefits to higher education, libraries, 
museums, arts, or nature conservation. The University is using the award 
to support the Greenstone community of developers and users, particularly 
in developing countries (see the announcement below).
The first grant of US$ 8,000 has been awarded to Prodigio Consultores in 
Santiago, Chile, to coordinate the launching of a sustainable, voluntary, 
not-for-profit Greenstone support network for Latin America. In carrying 
out this work by end June 2010, Prodigio will:
identify national coordinators for focal points for promotion of the 
Greenstone Digital Library software in at least 3 Latin American 
countries; 
establish contracts engaging each national coordinator to organise a 
national Greenstone training workshop, provide technical support services 
for one year and to ensure development and public access to at least one 
new Greenstone digital library application; 
create a regional coordinating and evaluation committee composed of 
representatives of the national coordinators and other Latin American 
experts; 
establish a collaborative portal to inform and facilitate cooperation 
among Greenstone users in Latin America (including announcement of 
training events, news about and links to Greenstone collections in the 
region, FAQs, and documentation on Greenstone in regional languages); 
provide technical assistance to the work of the national coordinators; 
coordinate the work of the regional coordinating and evaluation committee 
with a view to formally establishing and consolidating the regional 
support network. 
Additional support has been provided to enable Diego Spano, Director of 
Projects at Prodigio, to undertake a visit to Waikato to familiarise 
himself with the latest Greenstone developments and to discuss the 
development of the Latin American network.
Although Prodigio is a commercial company, it will be undertaking this 
activity on a totally not-for-profit basis. This work will build on the 
Spanish-language Greenstone discussion list which has been moderated by 
Prodigio for the past year. Further information can be obtained from Diego 
Spano.
The Latin American network will join the Greenstone support networks in 
South Asia (operating since 2006) and Southern Africa (operating since 
2007).
We hope to award the remaining Greenstone-Mellon grants by June 2009 in 
order to meet the deadlines for the use of these funds. Interested parties 
are referred to the grant announcement:

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