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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The Free Software Foundation revised the GNU Free Document License (GNU FDL) to allow public Wikis to relicense their content (by August 1, 2009) to the Creative Commons By-SA 3.0. The CC By-SA is the most FDL-like of the CC licenses. Apparently, they were asked by the Wikimedia foundation to do this.

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Speaking of open social networks …

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. The documentation is a bit lacking, and it’s clear that it’s a very new project. You can log in using OpenID. All really great stuff. If so, where on the list?

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Varied and sundry

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. He suggested, basically, find the publisher first, then talk about the license second. If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.)

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Open source your Open Social Apps?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Can we build a library of OpenSocial applications that have open source licenses? What really matters is an open social network, built using open protocols and documented, published standards. Anyone interested? Maybe this is the use for opensocialorg.org! :-) { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Devdas Bhagat 11.22.07

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It would not be as cost-effective (and thus, not produce as much profit) if these SaaS developers had to pay license fees for the software they use (besides the fact that these are the most stable and robust platforms to build upon.) Sometimes ‘open source’ is the most important kind of openness.

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QuickBooks Helps BITS Serve Struggling Youth

Tech Soup

She grew up in Kazakhstan and moved to Canada in 2009 to attend George Brown College's advanced management program. " She requested the one user license version of QuickBooks and began using the product herself. Veronika got her start at BITS by volunteering as a peer mentor in 2013.

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