[expertfinder-dev] small grant for expertfinder project!

[Axel Polleres]

Tom Heath wrote:
> Hi Paola,
> 
> Great news, congratulations! My work on Hoonoh is progessing, so I
> hope that that may provide some useful input to your project; more on
> that shortly. I'll be in Busan, so lets talk face to face :)

Sounds great! I will also in Busan... Guess we will meet at the FEWS 
workshop?

cheers,
axel

p.s.: we could continue on our discussions on the hoonoh proposal, I am 
curious on the next version!

> On 10/10/2007, paola.dimaio at gmail.com <paola.dimaio at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>I have been awarded approx 5.000 usd research grant towards developing
>>a 'person' interface (foaf like) for  an expertfinder type application
>>
>>http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/~aleman/efw2007/items/maio.php
>>
>>I am thinking of creating a foaf compatible, extensible and adaptable
>>'expert person'  like
>>schema that can be plugged into 'any' open source cms, say drupal
>>
>>the prototype implementation that I have in mind to use  this exension/module is
>>here www.p2paid.org
>>
>>I know that 5 grands is not that much, but here in south east Asia, is
>>can be  significant amount of money
>>I hope to use the money to  produce something FOSS that can be
>>installed and run as needed by any compatible , as well as spend the
>>money to train someone locally (Chiang Rai/Chiang Mai) area to write
>>xml, foaf, people schema etcetera.
>>
>>I obviously need some help and advice to make sure I dont waste this
>>opportunity to do something useful, so anyone interested in helping
>>out with good advice, guidelines, expertise, ideas - or if you simply
>>know an excellent programmer in Asia who would be interested to
>>develop the schema and get paid basic research rates by the hour,
>>please let me know! How is the expertfinder spec coming along? do we
>>have something to work with?
>>Is someone  from expertfinder team going to be at Busan
>>
>>Thanks a lot
>>
>>Paola Di Maio
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>Paola Di Maio
>>School of IT
>>www.mfu.ac.th
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