[OSGeo-Discuss] options for getting paid technical/mentoring support on foss geo applications

[Cameron Shorter]

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.
>   


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