Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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Drupal/Salesforce Integration

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I figured it was time to do an update. I’ve not had any experience with Springboard, but it’s important to understand that it is not open source, and is only maintained by one shop. A bit over a year ago, I wrote a post about the status of Drupal/Salesforce Integration. Use Jackson River’s Springboard.

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How to find out about free and open source software

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

How much time generally passes between major or minor releases? Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is. How busy is it? How easily or quickly does it seem that questions get answered? When was the last release?

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Linux ready for the desktop?

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I figured it was time to give my final assessment. Here are the good things: Even macs get weird sometimes, especially if they’ve been on for a long time. The only time I shut down this laptop is when I’m taking it somewhere, which is relatively rarely. I love apt-get/aptitude. coming out in October.

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Linux, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, and Me

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And, for all of that time, the Macintosh has been my primary desktop. I’ve tried making Linux my primary desktop many times (5 at last count.) More recently (last time I tried this was back in 2004) it was not being able to sync with the palm treo I had at the time. This is the 6th, and last time I will do this.

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Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought August 6, 2007 Blackbaud , which is one of the big gorillas in the CRM/Fundraising space bought a littler guy, eTapestry. 5 Jon Biedermann 08.09.07

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Technology providers and Linux

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This is because all providers start out with some personal experiences or biases, and most are too busy taking care of clients to spend lots and lots of time gaining new expertise in a broad range of topics – they need to focus. Most of the time, for clients, this doesn’t matter. Ubuntu is based on Debian).

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Varied Technology Links (only a little zen)

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

So if you are a hardware geek, expect to pay MS every other time you get a new motherboard. So if you are a hardware geek, expect to pay MS every other time you get a new motherboard Is this referring to activation? This sounds quite different than the activation issue. Get Ubuntu , and have done already.