Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] options for getting paid technical/mentoring support on foss geo applications
Hello Maning, LISAsoft is also in the business of providing commercial support for Geospatial Open Source Software, and our staff in Australia in a similar time zone to you in the Philippines. Your request for mentoring is something that our customers find quite popular here in Australia, where we help development teams quickly get up to speed with OSGeo software. This typically involves: * Either direct training, or having one of our experts sit with a developer or development team, answering questions, and suggesting appropriate technologies, or providing tips configuring software. * Once the developers are over the initial startup hurdle, we provide telephone support, allowing a developer to call one of our experts to give advice on sticky issues or design decisions as they arise. More details are at: http://www.lisasoft.com/LISAsoft/support.html On a similar note: * I suspect you will be interested in the Geospatial Open Source Live DVD, which provides a stack of Open Source Software installed on Xubuntu. It is a very good demonstration tool, and is handed out at conferences promoting OSGeo (like FOSS4G). We are currently building the next release of the Live DVD. You might want to get involved. You may be interested in being an early tester - which is something we'd like some help with. More details at: http://arramagong.org and http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc maning sambale wrote: Hi, We are a non-profit research institution in the Philippines providing geospatial related research to local partners. This year we are getting more involved with the use of several FOSS geo packages (mostly under OSGEO projects). We want to assist local partners in deploying FOSS products within their institutions (either as a desktop or server based solutions or customized apps). In many cases we can get support from the numerous mailinglist. However, there maybe cases when we will be needing paid technical support or specific application customization. In the future, we want to develop this capacity in house and the give back to the community. But for the moment, we are looking for developers or consultants who can help us. What we see is a sort of mentoring mechanism. Our staff will be involved with assisting our partners develop their geospatial solutions. But we may need regular mentoring/technical assistance. Since we will be using several geo apps (desktop, server), we need experts in many fields. I'm currently looking at opengeo's services and it seems to provide the support we need. http://opengeo.org/ http://opengeo.org/products/ Any other ideas/individuals/orgs who can help us? Note that we are not looking for people to develop the applications for us what we need are technical advise as we develop the request solutions from our partners. Many thanks in advance. -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Systems Architect Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source http://www.lisasoft.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] options for getting paid technical/mentoring support on foss geo applications
Thanks Cameron: You will also find that most of the projects maintain a list of organisations able to offer assistance. As an example geoserver.org has the following page: - http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Commercial+Support Jody On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Maning, LISAsoft is also in the business of providing commercial support for Geospatial Open Source Software, and our staff in Australia in a similar time zone to you in the Philippines. Your request for mentoring is something that our customers find quite popular here in Australia, where we help development teams quickly get up to speed with OSGeo software. This typically involves: * Either direct training, or having one of our experts sit with a developer or development team, answering questions, and suggesting appropriate technologies, or providing tips configuring software. * Once the developers are over the initial startup hurdle, we provide telephone support, allowing a developer to call one of our experts to give advice on sticky issues or design decisions as they arise. More details are at: http://www.lisasoft.com/LISAsoft/support.html On a similar note: * I suspect you will be interested in the Geospatial Open Source Live DVD, which provides a stack of Open Source Software installed on Xubuntu. It is a very good demonstration tool, and is handed out at conferences promoting OSGeo (like FOSS4G). We are currently building the next release of the Live DVD. You might want to get involved. You may be interested in being an early tester - which is something we'd like some help with. More details at: http://arramagong.org and http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc maning sambale wrote: Hi, We are a non-profit research institution in the Philippines providing geospatial related research to local partners. This year we are getting more involved with the use of several FOSS geo packages (mostly under OSGEO projects). We want to assist local partners in deploying FOSS products within their institutions (either as a desktop or server based solutions or customized apps). In many cases we can get support from the numerous mailinglist. However, there maybe cases when we will be needing paid technical support or specific application customization. In the future, we want to develop this capacity in house and the give back to the community. But for the moment, we are looking for developers or consultants who can help us. What we see is a sort of mentoring mechanism. Our staff will be involved with assisting our partners develop their geospatial solutions. But we may need regular mentoring/technical assistance. Since we will be using several geo apps (desktop, server), we need experts in many fields. I'm currently looking at opengeo's services and it seems to provide the support we need. http://opengeo.org/ http://opengeo.org/products/ Any other ideas/individuals/orgs who can help us? Note that we are not looking for people to develop the applications for us what we need are technical advise as we develop the request solutions from our partners. Many thanks in advance. -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Systems Architect Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source http://www.lisasoft.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] options for getting paid technical/mentoring support on foss geo applications
All, I just tried up to submit a new profile here: http://www.osgeo.org/submit_profile, for SharedGeo, but it says that there is already a record, but if I list everything and go through the list, I don't see it returned for any combination of filtering. Anyone know who to contact about it? Thanks bobb On 1/26/2010 9:33 PM, Jody Garnett wrote: Thanks Cameron: You will also find that most of the projects maintain a list of organisations able to offer assistance. As an example geoserver.org has the following page: - http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Commercial+Support Jody On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Maning, LISAsoft is also in the business of providing commercial support for Geospatial Open Source Software, and our staff in Australia in a similar time zone to you in the Philippines. Your request for mentoring is something that our customers find quite popular here in Australia, where we help development teams quickly get up to speed with OSGeo software. This typically involves: * Either direct training, or having one of our experts sit with a developer or development team, answering questions, and suggesting appropriate technologies, or providing tips configuring software. * Once the developers are over the initial startup hurdle, we provide telephone support, allowing a developer to call one of our experts to give advice on sticky issues or design decisions as they arise. More details are at: http://www.lisasoft.com/LISAsoft/support.html On a similar note: * I suspect you will be interested in the Geospatial Open Source Live DVD, which provides a stack of Open Source Software installed on Xubuntu. It is a very good demonstration tool, and is handed out at conferences promoting OSGeo (like FOSS4G). We are currently building the next release of the Live DVD. You might want to get involved. You may be interested in being an early tester - which is something we'd like some help with. More details at: http://arramagong.org and http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc maning sambale wrote: Hi, We are a non-profit research institution in the Philippines providing geospatial related research to local partners. This year we are getting more involved with the use of several FOSS geo packages (mostly under OSGEO projects). We want to assist local partners in deploying FOSS products within their institutions (either as a desktop or server based solutions or customized apps). In many cases we can get support from the numerous mailinglist. However, there maybe cases when we will be needing paid technical support or specific application customization. In the future, we want to develop this capacity in house and the give back to the community. But for the moment, we are looking for developers or consultants who can help us. What we see is a sort of mentoring mechanism. Our staff will be involved with assisting our partners develop their geospatial solutions. But we may need regular mentoring/technical assistance. Since we will be using several geo apps (desktop, server), we need experts in many fields. I'm currently looking at opengeo's services and it seems to provide the support we need. http://opengeo.org/ http://opengeo.org/products/ Any other ideas/individuals/orgs who can help us? Note that we are not looking for people to develop the applications for us what we need are technical advise as we develop the request solutions from our partners. Many thanks in advance. -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Systems Architect Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source http://www.lisasoft.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] options for getting paid technical/mentoring support on foss geo applications
maning sambale wrote: Hi, We are a non-profit research institution in the Philippines providing geospatial related research to local partners. This year we are getting more involved with the use of several FOSS geo packages (mostly under OSGEO projects). Maning, thanks for the decision to use Open Source software. Contacting this list is a good idea. All interested parties should feel free to contact Maning through this list or off directly to offer their services. We want to assist local partners in deploying FOSS products within their institutions (either as a desktop or server based solutions or customized apps). In many cases we can get support from the numerous mailinglist. However, there maybe cases when we will be needing paid technical support or specific application customization. In the future, we want to develop this capacity in house and the give back to the community. But for the moment, we are looking for developers or consultants who can help us. You can find a list of Open Source service providers in the OSGeo directory [1]. None of them are endorsed by OSGeo and the directory is self maintained, but it may serve as a starting point. What we see is a sort of mentoring mechanism. Our staff will be involved with assisting our partners develop their geospatial solutions. But we may need regular mentoring/technical assistance. Since we will be using several geo apps (desktop, server), we need experts in many fields. I'm currently looking at opengeo's services and it seems to provide the support we need. http://opengeo.org/ http://opengeo.org/products/ Please notice that although OSGeo.org sounds similar to OpenGeo.org the two organizations have a completely different background and are not directly related. OpenGeo is not the official service provider for OSGeo software but offer services like any another provider listed in the directory or elsewhere. Sorry for the potentially confusing names. Any other ideas/individuals/orgs who can help us? Note that we are not looking for people to develop the applications for us what we need are technical advise as we develop the request solutions from our partners. Many thanks in advance. Best regards, Arnulf Christl. [1] http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile -- Arnulf Christl President OSGeo http://www.osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] options for getting paid technical/mentoring support on foss geo applications
You can find a list of Open Source service providers in the OSGeo directory [1]. None of them are endorsed by OSGeo and the directory is self maintained, but it may serve as a starting point. Thanks for the link. I am looking at them at the moment. Please notice that although OSGeo.org sounds similar to OpenGeo.org the two organizations have a completely different background and are not directly related. OpenGeo is not the official service provider for OSGeo software but offer services like any another provider listed in the directory or elsewhere. Sorry for the potentially confusing names. I know the difference. :) I noticed opengeo because they seem to provide a complete package. I will look at the the osgeo service providers as well. -- cheers, maning -- Freedom is still the most radical idea of all -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] options for getting paid technical/mentoring support on foss geo applications
Hi, We are a non-profit research institution in the Philippines providing geospatial related research to local partners. This year we are getting more involved with the use of several FOSS geo packages (mostly under OSGEO projects). We want to assist local partners in deploying FOSS products within their institutions (either as a desktop or server based solutions or customized apps). In many cases we can get support from the numerous mailinglist. However, there maybe cases when we will be needing paid technical support or specific application customization. In the future, we want to develop this capacity in house and the give back to the community. But for the moment, we are looking for developers or consultants who can help us. What we see is a sort of mentoring mechanism. Our staff will be involved with assisting our partners develop their geospatial solutions. But we may need regular mentoring/technical assistance. Since we will be using several geo apps (desktop, server), we need experts in many fields. I'm currently looking at opengeo's services and it seems to provide the support we need. http://opengeo.org/ http://opengeo.org/products/ Any other ideas/individuals/orgs who can help us? Note that we are not looking for people to develop the applications for us what we need are technical advise as we develop the request solutions from our partners. Many thanks in advance. -- cheers, maning -- Freedom is still the most radical idea of all -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ -- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
