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

Muchas gracias a todos por los buenos deseos, desde Prodigio Consultores
estamos muy motivados por aportar en todo lo que se pueda y en conjunto con
la comunidad de usuarios Greenstone en Español contribuir al desarrollo de
las instituciones Latinoamericanas en lo que se refiere a la difusión,
acceso y democratización de la información.



Saludos y seguimos adelante
Felipe Vera
Director Ejecutivo
www.prodigioconsultores.com

2009/5/4 Ana Sanllorenti <ana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>  Otra vez Felicitaciones.
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> Saludos
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> Ana
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> Diego Spano escribió:
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>  Gracias Julian!.
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> Un abrazo.
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> Diego
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> *En nombre de *Julian Moyano
> *Enviado el:* lunes, 04 de mayo de 2009 4:18
> *Para:* greenstone_es@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Asunto:* [greenstone_es] Felicidades a Prodigio (Diego Spano y su equipo)
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> Del Blog de Greenstone:
> http://www.greenstone.org/blog/2009-05-04/waikato-visit-report-from-john-rose-2/
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> 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
> <http://www.greenstone.org/blog#announcement>below).
>
> The first grant of US$ 8,000 has been awarded to Prodigio 
> Consultores<http://www.prodigioconsultores.com/>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 <http://www.freelists.org/list/greenstone_es>which 
> has been moderated by Prodigio for the past year. Further information
> can be obtained from Diego Spano <diegospano@xxxxxxxxx>.
>
> The Latin American network will join the Greenstone support networks in South
> Asia <http://greenstonesupport.iimk.ac.in/> (operating since 2006) and 
> Southern
> Africa 
> <http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-foss/greenstone>(operating 
> since 2007).
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> 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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Saludos
Felipe Vera

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