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OPA (Online Proposal Appraisal) <www.bellanet.org/opa> was originally designed and developed in 1999/2000 using Cold Fusion by Bellanet International Secretariat <www.bellanet.org> in partnership with the MINGA program of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada <www.idrc.ca/minga>. The idea for OPA emerged to support a MINGA project initiative for small grant programs. MINGA and Bellanet agreed on the benefits of creating a generic, Open Source application that could also serve a wide variety of other purposes.
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The Cold Fusion version 2.0 of OPA was completed in 2001 in collaboration with the GDN Awards Program <http://www.gdnet.org/>. This implementation of OPA has continued to serve GDNet for 10 years. The current site is: http://opa.gdnet.org/
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KiNcite <www.kincite.com> then ported OPA to PHP in 2001/2002 in collaboration with Bellanet and Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC). Bellanet made further refinements in September 2002.
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The NewJersey/Toronto company Omoli took the initiative to port OPA-ColdFusion/Access to OPA-J2EE/MySQL under the GNU-GPL, and also provides several additional modules: http://www.omoli.com/ http://www.omoli.com/news.htm This conversion was completed in November 2003, and shared back with the Canadian Government. It was picked up then by a wider diversity of organizations.
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In 2009 Treasury Board Secretariat of the Canadian Government contracted Gatineau-based ?Centre for Research and Experimental Development in Informatics Libre? (CREDIL) http://www.credil.org/ to run a small contest in which three prizes of $1000 were awared for the best improvements to the OPA-Java 2 version of the software. The effort was also promoted internationally by the Free Software Foundation http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/credil-contest-2009.
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CONTACTS:
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Joseph Potvin
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Original Co-Architect and Product Co-Manager of OPA (1999-2001), Bellanet International Secretariat
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Currently: Coodinator, Intellectual Resources Canada (IRCan), Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
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+1 613-889-6747 <[email protected]> or <[email protected]>
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Mark Faul
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Cold Fusion programmer, Co-Architect of OPA (1999-2004)
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Program Officer, Bellanet International Secretariat
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Currently: Program Manager of E-Media at City of Ottawa, Canada.
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+1 613-580-2424 x12808 <[email protected]>
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The original client team for OPA v1.0 included the following:
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Daniel Buckles, PhD.
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Detailed Business Requirements, Usability and Design (1999-2001)
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Senior Program Specialist, International Development Research Centre
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F. Brian Davy Ph.D.
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Usability and Design (1999-2001)
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Biodiversity Team Leader, International Development Research Centre
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Gilles Cliche
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Contextual Business Requirements, Usability and Design (1999-2001)
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Program Officer, International Development Research Centre
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Eiichiro Kawabe
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Usability and Design (2001)
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Contacts for OPA-PHP
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Jako Jellema
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PHP Development Coordinator (2001-2002)
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KiNcite
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Sarah Kerr
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PHP programmer (2002)
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Technical Officer, Bellanet International Secretariat
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Contacts for OPA-Java
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Original port to J2EE:
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Obi Anizor, Chief Software Engineer
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http://www.omoli.com http://www.onlineproposalmanagement.com
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Toll Free: 1-866-90-OMOLI Phone: 770-997-4278
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Canadian Government Lead on OPA:
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Joseph Potvin
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Coordinator, Intellectual Resources Canada (IRCan)
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[email protected]
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Telephone 613-941-4626
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Mobile 613-889-6747
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Recent Improvements to OPA-Java:
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CREDIL - Centre de recherche et d?velopement experimental en informartique libre
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F3018-283 Alexandre Tach?
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Andrew Clunis, [email protected], ext3512
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