[open-development] Land Portal project : Peter form Neo

Thu Jul 18 17:21:28 UTC 2013

Hello Laura,

I received the below message from a colleague Evan "Rabble" Henshaw-Plath
(cc'd). I would love to learn more about the initiative and see if Neo is a
good fit for the work.

Do you have time to skype next week? I will be in San Francisco so PDT.
Perhaps at 8am PST Weds July 24th?

Best,
Peter

skype: pedroshanley

---------- Mensaje reenviado ----------
De: Laura Meggiolaro
Fecha: jueves, 11 de julio de 2013
Asunto: [open-development] Looking for freelancers or small technical
development agencies to redevelop the Land Portal
Para: open-development at lists.okfn.org

Hello all,

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

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 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/

-- 
Peter T Shanley
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Neo | Neo.com <http://neo.com/>
Dir
Business Development

Skype: pedroshanley
Phone: +1.415.694.3992
Twitter: @petershanley
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