[greenstone_es] Re: Felicidades a Prodigio (Diego Spano y su equipo)
- From: Osvaldo Sosa <o_sosa2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lista greenstone <greenstone_es@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 18:14:05 +0000
MIs felicitaciones Diego, gracias a tu esfuerzo y al de muchos mas se logro
esto, que significa un avance muy importante en el afianzamiento de la
comunidad latinoamericana de usuarios de Greenstone
Osvaldo Sosa
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 09:18:21 +0200
Subject: [greenstone_es] Felicidades a Prodigio (Diego Spano y su equipo)
From: julianmoyanoc@xxxxxxxxx
To: greenstone_es@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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