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Gender, Race and Open Source

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. That speaks volumes to me.

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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. Be Helpful.

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What software freedom means to me

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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. I could easily argue that for the overwhelming majority of places you need an operating system, the free and open source alternatives are better (if you count the BSD core of the Mac OS.

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Mission Statement

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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. Be Helpful.

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Web 2.0 Part Vb:APIs

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It would have been nice to have heard from a circuit-rider or "for-little-profit" integrator/consultant type person, and maybe another nonprofit type (a moderately tech savvy ED?) It seemed that only Blackbaud had APIs you have to pay for. One vendor said that very few nonprofits have the resources to take advantage of APIs.

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This guy is right on

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What I’d really like to see though is a true, enthusiastic Open Source community get behind a “better&# spreadsheet for its own sake, not for the sake of copying Office. Phil: I agree – with time and effort, OO or any open source spreadsheet could out Excel Excel. Maybe WikiCalc is the way to go.

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Open Source Strategic Planning

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Paul Connolly, who has been a guest blogger on this blog before , covered the session on Open Source Strategic Planning. Next, consultants helped facilitate an asynchronous process involving a wide set of stakeholders using an online wiki to write and edit sections of the plan. Guest post by Paul Connolly.