Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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What are learning platforms?

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Most proprietary LMS are geared specifically toward the college/university or corporate training markets, and are thus quite expensive. There are open source LMS, some of which are quite well developed, and some also geared toward (or developed by) colleges and universities. Moodle – probably the best known open source LMS.

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Why you should care that Oracle is buying Sun

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And, ultimately there is a great open source database alternative called PostgreSQL, but support for it is not universal. Of course, since MySQL is open source, there is no danger of MySQL going away, someone can always fork it. However, the future of ongoing support and development for MySQL is certainly in question.

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The End of an Era

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Not that this is universal in Oakland, but it is not uncommon.). And in what other place would it seem ho-hum to the barber? And, in what other place would there be barbers in the black community that are friendly to lesbians who like masculine haircuts? Communities that fed my soul in untold ways.

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The End of an Era

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Not that this is universal in Oakland, but it is not uncommon.). And in what other place would it seem ho-hum to the barber? And, in what other place would there be barbers in the black community that are friendly to lesbians who like masculine haircuts? Communities that fed my soul in untold ways.

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Vendorspeak

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

A universal service for the masses. My one request is that vendors who comment on this blog take a moment to step back a bit from their myopia, and look at the ways in which they can contribute to a vibrant, active ecology of choices, rather than fight for their own little piece of the pie. { at 5:00 pm I think you make a GREAT point!!!

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What software freedom means to me

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I was a professor at the time, and a nonprofit organization wanted to get on the web, and give some of their staff email, and at the time, colleges and universities were the only organizations that had easy access to the internet, and virtual hosting companies cost a fortune, way beyond what a nonprofit could afford.

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This guy is right on

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Without getting into Google’s plan for world domination, what would help there is to see more universal adoption of OpenID[2]. [0] That gets super confusing when you (I) have a google account (Moraving) and don’t use it for anything (eg, mail sent to moraving@gmail.com will never get to me because I never look at it.),