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

Gracias Julian!.

 

Un abrazo.

 

Diego

 

De: greenstone_es-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:greenstone_es-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 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)

 

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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