Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What software freedom means to me June 25, 2008 I got some interesting comments on the last post about Linux desktops. If you don’t, it’s still the majority.)

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NOVEMBER 15, 2006

why Ruby on Rails rocks (or doesn’t), what’s a good alternative port to run SSH, when we’re going to implement IPv6 or … there’s a whole lot of testosterone, and not a lot of estrogen hanging about. When you look at systems administrators, or coders, or net-heads … the women kinda vanish.

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OCTOBER 1, 2007

People have left social networks before and they will do so again if there is an alternative that suits them better. Basically, Facebook and other social networking apps have a strong incentive to prevent people from leaving by providing them better and better toolsets over time. That obviously doesn’t happen in agriculture.

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JUNE 29, 2007

Which, of course, has been an issue for me for a long time – lack of open source alternatives in the "vertical" application spaces – case management, etc. An older woman of color noted that a lot of the problems that open source developers were solving weren’t problems that communities faced.

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APRIL 3, 2009

You also ignore my argument about the 2008 security audits of Drupal that resulted in numerous vulnerability reports, but more on that later. Tagged as: CMS , drupal , idealware , plone , security { 1 trackback } Confluence: Office of the CTO 04.13.09 at 1:55 pm { 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Strauss 04.03.09

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JUNE 24, 2008

June 24, 2008 I’m doing a webinar on Linux Desktops next month, and it’s making me think a lot about my own experience using Linux on the desktop, and where I think things are going. And, of course, designers need software that just don’t have high enough quality open source alternatives yet. 10 Isaac 11.20.08

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MAY 22, 2012

In 2008, when this group was assembled, they had political backing, financial support, and an energetic approach to their work. Blueprint is a maddening sketch of the museum that might have been, one that alternates between shaky and bold strokes. How would you navigate the political minefields of such an endeavor?

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APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 And it’s making me think a lot about what I’m going to start calling “Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0″

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JUNE 21, 2007

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace).

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DECEMBER 4, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace).

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MAY 29, 2008

May 29, 2008 NTEN just released their CMS satisfaction survey. The other questions, that are really more geared toward particular vendors, for FOSS CMS are not really applicable to the CMS itself, but to the consultants or vendors who implement it – which is bound to be variable. Most people (67%) want an easy to use interface.

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AUGUST 6, 2007

If nonprofits want to be able to implement CRM/Fundraising solutions (or any software solutions, for that matter) that cannot be taken away from them, or have the terms under which they use them change without their control or consent, there have to be open source alternatives.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Cake vs. Symfony November 6, 2008 In my new explorations of PHP web application development, it seemed a good idea to get a look at both CakePHP and Symfony. The alternative would be to use 1.1

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NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Tis the Season Is mobile fundraising the next frontier? There are lots of alternative gift giving opportunities too, take for example Save the Children gift catalog that lets you and your children explore a map of the world and imagine how simple gifts make a difference. Net Tuesdays are spreading around the globe!

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