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OpenOffice.org to get a boost

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 OpenOffice.org to get a boost September 13, 2007 I’ve been spending a lot of time with OpenOffice.org lately. I’ve not owned MS Office in a very long time. for at least 4 years.

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Varied and sundry

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. He suggested, basically, find the publisher first, then talk about the license second. If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.)

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News from NTC ‘08

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology News from NTC ‘08 March 20, 2008 I’ve been having a great time here at NTC – running into lots of folks I’m happy to see again, and meet, learning about new things, being involved.

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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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Open source your Open Social Apps?

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Can we build a library of OpenSocial applications that have open source licenses? at 11:25 am I totally, completely agree – as I’ve said lots of times. It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested? 2 admin 11.22.07 That was all.

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SaaS vs. Open Source

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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.) There are multiple ways to ‘play well with others.’ 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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MPower Open keeps moving forward

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

At the same time, it really doesn’t make a lot of difference to the customer that was going to hire Mpower anyway. MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. These are good steps forward. CiviCRM has a great forum for community. Thanks for a great site!!

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