[open-development] Looking for freelancers or small technical development agencies to redevelop the Land Portal

Thu Jul 11 13:18:59 UTC 2013

Hello all,

I am writing to ask for advise and support in relation to the Land
Portal<http://www.landportal.info/>project. We are looking for
freelancers or small technical development
agencies (with a strong knowledge of open data) to redevelop the Land
Portal. <http://www.landportal.info>

The Land Portal was launched in March 2011 as a global hub for access land
information, supported by a network of international and grassroots land
organisations <http://landportal.info/about> focussed on land governance,
development and social justice. Following a review of the Portal’s first
two years of operation, the Land Portal is mow ready for a rebuild.

The Land Portal aims to bring together fragmented online content about
land, and to source new content through hosting online dialogue. The Portal
is committed to build from the ground up on an ‘open development’ approach:
using open data and open source wherever possible.

We are currently fundraising to support an ambitious programme of
development in 2014. From now to December 2013 we are looking to take the
first steps towards this, through a series of agile development sprints
such that the current Portal (a Drupal 6 site) can be retired and replaced
over the course of Autumn 2013.

To do that, the plan is to take two parallel approaches: i) putting a call
for proposals through the IFAD procurement system for single agencies who
want to deliver the whole development process; ii) putting a note around
for expressions of interest from freelancers or small technical development
shops who may want to work on one or more small components of the platform.

Based on response to these two calls the Land Portal team will then be able
to decide between commissioning the work to an agency, or building a team
of freelancers to deliver the work.

It would be greatly appreciated if you could suggest any suppliers or
individual freelancers the Land Portal team should send the call to;
particularly people with strong open data and linked data experience who
might be available for work on this over August - December sort of
timeframe.

All best wishes

Laura

Laura Meggiolaro | Land Portal Coordinator,

International Land Coalition Secretariat at IFAD | Via Paolo di Dono, 44 |
Rome 00142

+39 06 5459 2736 (T) | +39 3371246461 (M) | laura_meggiolaro (skype)

*http://www.landportal.info/*

http://www.landcoalition.org/
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