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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JULY 10, 2008
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My Theory of Practice July 10, 2008 I finally had the reason to begin to more completely articulate my theory of practice. My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 30, 2007
I figured it was a good time to think about and articulate mine. There are a few pieces to that challenge I might take up, on occasion. One of them, I’ll do now. A few days ago, Michele posted her blog’s mission statement. I got into a lot of trouble for that myself.
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JUNE 25, 2008
I realize that I haven’t talked about this in a while, and I’m not sure I’ve actually ever articulated this completely on this blog. So here goes. I got involved in Linux a long time ago. I feel that there is a definite demand for open source software in our wonderfully capitalist world.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JULY 14, 2008
There is a little of that in this thread: [link] The home-hobbyist FOSS user frequently thinks of “free as in kittens&# from the standpoint of a child or single adult, not from the standpoint of an employer or business owner who really understands what total cost of ownership means. Thank you for helping me articulate it.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JUNE 29, 2007
And communities that could make use of, expand, extend, and take ownership of these tools, don’t have access to them, for a wide variety of reasons that at some point I should articulate, but have little to do with money directly. This feels like a different part of the digital divide.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 10, 2006
He further says: "If information producers do not need to capture the economic benefits of their particular information outputs, or if some businesses can capture the economic value of their information production by means other than exclusive control … the justification for regulating access by granting copyrights is weakened.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
APRIL 18, 2007
OOo Calc integrates really nicely with databases and stuff (I know that wasn’t too articulate, but I know what I know and not what I don’t. . * Macros are much more intuitive in whatever language Excel uses than in whatever it is that OOo Calc uses. Feel free to make a technologically accurate version of that sentence.)
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