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Another good reason for nonprofits to use FOSS

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Miro , the free and open source media player, has released a Firefox plugin , which automatically inserts their affiliate code when you buy something from Amazon. It’s really simple to use, and one doesn’t have to have links on your website, etc. Hat tip to Jon Stahl for the heads up. { Hat tip to Jon Stahl for the heads up. {

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What is cloud computing?

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Our Plugin for the Confluence wiki already operates like this; if you’ve bought the plugin, you are completely independent of our website. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Free and open source tool #7: Firefox

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at 2:51 pm There’s a great free Firefox plugin for students & researchers who need to manage citations and bibliographies, not to mention organize all those PDFs…Zotero is wonderful, and works perfectly with Word (for those of us still hooked on some Microsoft programs).

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Free and open source tool #5: WordPress

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WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins. It is a great blogging tool. It is another of those open source software applications that “just works.&# Installation of WordPress is scarily easy. The best one, by the way, is Akismet , which is also made by Automattic.

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Wiki Syntax madness

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There is a DokuWiki plugin available. I doubt it, but it would be nice. { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Andreas Gohr 11.26.07 at 5:10 pm Have a look at the CREOLE project. Updating it to Creole 1.0 is on my todo list. 2 admin 11.26.07 at 5:56 pm Thanks, Andreas. This is SO great!

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Sweet tasting dogfood…

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Add a few important plugins, and I’m back to where I was just a few days ago on Typepad. This migration, unlike the Mac OS -> Ubuntu migration, has been completely painless. A few tweaks (mentioned in the previous post,) and I was up and running with all posts and comments intact.

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Free and open source tool #6: Joomla!

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BTW, really enjoying your 100 foss posts… keep it up! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.