Alliance for Public Gardens GIS (that is: zoos and botanical gardens)

[Rahul Sundaram]

Mary Burke wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/
> 
> I'm in love with your website.
> 
> I'm trying to help launch a national collaborative project for the poor, 
> misunderstood, underfunded tech folks at zoos and botanical gardens 
> across the country. We're trying to build a GIS "data model" so that 
> each zoo and garden doesn't have to start from scratch when they want to 
> map their plants, their paths, their irrigation systems, etc. Here's 
> an example 
> <http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=downloads.datamodels.gateway> from 
> other industries.
> 
> We need a web presence and project wiki to help us communicate.
> 
> Would you mind terribly if I used your beautiful Fedora website as a 
> template?-- it's so elegant, content-rich, easy to understand.
> 
> If the answer is "yes", then you become an official "professional 
> services" volunteer for our new alliance. Maybe there's a tax deduction 
> in there somewhere? 
> 
> Our partners, right now, are the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park, the 
> Chicago Botanical Garden, the Missouri Botanical Garden, San Francisco 
> Zoo, San Francisco State, the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University, 
> and UC Davis. We have about 100 gardens interested in getting this free, 
> open source data model. Now all we have to do is build it. Communicate.
> 
> Thank you for thinking it over. It would be a great help!

[Copying an earlier answer given to another project]

You are allowed to use the design and CSS in our website under the 
Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license. Essentially use it 
freely but give us credit and we appreciate linking back to our website.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Websites

Note that using the Fedora marks is only allowed under our trademark 
guidelines so I would suggest that you avoid using them in any way.

Rahul