Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 20, 2009

In general, the activities of the big tech corporations have somewhat limited and indirect effect on nonprofit technology. However, today’s news that Oracle is going to buy Sun Microsystems has some very important implications. Tags: Open Source Software Technology Zen database mysql nptech oracle sun.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 7, 2011

I recently wrote a blog entry about LibreOffice (LO), the fork of OpenOffice.org (OOo) that came after the acquisition of Sun (the old holder/maintainer of OOo) by Oracle. For the purposes of this blog entry, at this moment in time (early 2011,) LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org are the same.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

" Given the natural affinity between the principals of open source development -- peer production, collaboration, transparency -- and the goals and culture of many civic sector organizations, it makes sense for decision makers and tech staff to at least keep up to date on developments in the open source world. Getting Prepared.

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