Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

I love it because it’s really easy to set up and back up (it’s all files, not in a database,) and it’s has draft autosaves (yay!). I have become a complete devotee of Dokuwiki , which I use locally on my laptop, for my to do lists, notes, etc. And I contribute to varied other wikis, which are on varied other wiki platforms.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Many nonprofits have Linux file servers in their back offices. It’s sobering – as much as I love technology, it scares me how much damage it can do to both people and the environment, once we’re done with it, and ready to upgrade to something new. This was to appease the European Commission.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

They have a site, with the URL: [link] which is a link to a windows.exe file, which is a simple, sweet Debian installer. Changing one file (/etc/apt/sources.list) and running a few commands, should do the trick. But, the computers are networked, so it would seem – there must be some easy way, right? Debian comes to the rescue.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

If my house is clean, my filing done, and my laundry folded, you can bet the ‘net is down and I’m grumpy about it. If my house is clean, my filing done, and my laundry folded, you can bet the ‘net is down and I’m grumpy about it. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. Mitchell 02.20.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Opening whatever you throw at it: say “open&# , find a file, and Excel will at least try to open it. OOo Calc will open your txt files in OOo Writer no matter what they contain. but it won’t talk to mailmerge files. .) * Formulas: it is much, much more straightforward to compose compound functions in MS Excel.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

It’s stable, feature rich, uses open standards, reads and writes MS files, and, did I mention it’s free? Actually, even if they have, for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations, it’s really great.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

It took me a couple of frustrating hours or so to configure samba (editing the samba.conf file and testing) so that I could share my home directory, with music and video, with my other computers, and share my printer. Needless to say, I did absolutely nothing to get it to work. Plugged it in, and it just worked.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

I could dump all my addresses into one big flat file, and use grep. But the last time I tried Evolution, it was a horrible experience. But, that was 4 years ago. Open source projects do get better. Actually there is a fourth option. So my next task is to really try out evolution, and see how it works for me. I’ll keep you posted.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

at 3:56 pm Great America Networks Conferencing has a WebConferencing tool called QuickVisuals that lets you share your desktop, PowerPoint, video files, webcam from a PC/Mac/Linux platform easily. I think they are the only skype extra that has been certified by Skype for Mac. 4 Anthony Russo 02.03.08

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 9, 2008

Filed under photos , unplugged. Redesigning Charity for the Digital Age Skip to content Home More about Steve Bridger UK Charities Twitter 100 Woodland walk Took the family on a magical walk yesterday afternoon in Clevedon Court Woods. There’s nothing that compares to the majesty of trees. This was written by Steve Bridger.

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Steve Bridger

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Filed under ideas , video. Just this morning, Mark Charmer of Akvo alerted me to a United Nations University study , which says providing sanitation and safe water is the top route to reducing world poverty. Please join the Colalife group on Facebook; 6,391 members… and counting. This was written by Steve Bridger.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

Filed under flickr. Mind apples Categories charities flickr ideas people photos speaking storytelling unplugged video Archives June 2010 March 2010 January 2010 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 June 2009 March 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 © 2010 ¶ WordPress.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 24, 2008

Filed under flickr. Mind apples Categories charities flickr ideas people photos speaking storytelling unplugged video Archives June 2010 March 2010 January 2010 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 June 2009 March 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 © 2010 ¶ WordPress.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

We use and nonprofit WordPress for our microsites. Also our network of informal national chapters are hosted in WordPress. For file sharing we use Box.net. On October 24, 2009, 350.org It requires very little maintenance. We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. An example is 350 Mexico.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

We use and nonprofit WordPress for our microsites. Also our network of informal national chapters are hosted in WordPress. For file sharing we use Box.net. On October 24, 2009, 350.org It requires very little maintenance. We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. An example is 350 Mexico.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

In Cake, the database build is separate from the application building (you do it yourself), whereas in Symfony, you use Symfony to build the database with schema files written in YAML. I set up both on my laptop, and tried out some really simple app development. Then, you build forms and such using the schema as a foundation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

If you want either of them to just serve up static files, they’re equally easy to use. FOSS that is accessible, popular, and widely-used-by-amateur-home-hobbyists (Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla) is fully of non-credible, immature, open source advocates. The “no support&# myth is very prevelent as well. 4 Dan Knauss 07.17.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 23, 2007

And older computers running Linux make very handy single (or even multiple) purpose servers – file servers, backup servers, dhcp servers, routers and firewalls, print servers, etc. But computers of that vintage can pretty happily run Ubuntu Feisty (the current Ubuntu version).

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