[Sagreenstone] Fwd: [greenstone-users] Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration (MATC)

[John Rose]

Dear Colleagues, I'm forwarding Ian Witten's 
message below for your consideration (please 
excuse double posting), best regards, John

>Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:24:59 +1200
>From: Ian Witten <ihw at cs.waikato.ac.nz>
>Subject: [greenstone-users] Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration
>         (MATC)
>To: Greenstone Users List <greenstone-users at list.scms.waikato.ac.nz>,
>         Greenstone Developers <greenstone-devel at list.scms.waikato.ac.nz>
>
>I am pleased to inform you that Greenstone has been nominated for a
>2008 Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration (MATC) award. There
>are two types of award: $50,000 to recognize important organizational
>contributions to open source projects which currently or potentially
>provide significant benefits to at least one traditional Mellon
>constituency (higher education, especially the arts and humanities;
>libraries; museums; arts organizations; and nature conservation) or
>$100,000 to recognize highly significant contributions to open source
>projects offering larger benefits to more or larger constituencies.
>
>The award committee will decide on the winners in mid-September, and
>the Mellon Foundation will then ask the recipients to develop plans
>for the use of the award to further the organization’s engagement
>with open source development.
>
>The public is invited to submit comments on the nominations, which
>will be taken into account by the award committee. An MATC award
>would provide an exceptional recognition and boost for Greenstone
>development, dissemination and user support. Greenstone users and
>developers are therefore encouraged to submit comments illustrating
>how Greenstone has enabled their organizations to develop public
>service digital library applications and/or how the Greenstone team/
>network has supported users and collaborative software development.
>
>The awards are described on the MATC website
>
>         http://matc.mellon.org/
>
>The Greenstone nomination can be viewed and commented on at
>
>         http://matc.mellon.org/nominate/university-of-waikato
>
>(you will be prompted to register before your comment can be submitted).
>
>Should we win an award, we would consult with you again on how it
>should most effectively be used to serve the Greenstone community of
>developers and users.
>
>cheers
>ian


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