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The Deep Learning When Nonprofit Techies Get Together

Tech Soup

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN’s Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Beyrouth, Lebanon: SkillPill: Creating Wikipedia Articles. Image Name: Author / License. Mukono, Uganda: First Term Mobile Solar Computer Training Meetup for Kikandwa Primary School. HTML EXAMPLE.

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Your #NPtech Community Calendar for July

Tech Soup

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , HandsOn Tech , DataKind , and more. Boston, Massachusetts: What Nonprofits Can (and Cannot) Learn from Wikipedia. Austin, Texas: Google Digital Inclusion Fellowship — NTEN, Skillpoint, and Austin Free-Net.

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It would not be as cost-effective (and thus, not produce as much profit) if these SaaS developers had to pay license fees for the software they use (besides the fact that these are the most stable and robust platforms to build upon.) It’s my understanding that none of the major non-profit SaaS players use open source tools.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. I’ve been using it since it was called Postgres95 – before version 6.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. I’ve been using it since it was called Postgres95 – before version 6.