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My Theory of Practice

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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.

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What software freedom means to me

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Mission Statement

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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.

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Gender, Race and Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Toward the end, a young man, who worked with urban kids of color on media and music, commented that he didn’t really know how to get access to the kinds of things available, and he noticed how few people of color were in the room. This feels like a different part of the digital divide.

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This guy is right on

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Web 2.0 Part Vb:APIs

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Out intent was to put the light squarely on them with smart and articulate voices from the nonprofit sector (Peter Campbell and Zack Rosen as well as Mark Bogliani) asking them questions. Ther was no parity because we wanted to know where those vendors stand, and I think we accomplished this.

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Technology Support as Teaching

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

As I move out of doing implementation, and into more evaluation, planning and facilitation of technology change within organizations, I wanted to spend some time articulating what I have tried my best to practice when I’ve been in a place of providing technology support. All technology providers have to deal at some level with support.

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