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

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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