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