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Giving up, a little

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Giving up, a little August 6, 2007 As you might know, I migrated from using a MacBook Pro laptop as my primary desktop, to eating my own dogfood, as it were, and using Ubuntu Linux as my primary desktop.

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Free and open source tool #1: Thunderbird

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I’m using one that allows me to see a calendar (I use it to view my google calendar) – it’s a good quick way within Thunderbird to see if I’m free on a certain day. And, because it’s in the Mozilla family, it has a plug in architecture which can add some really neat features.

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Dancing for Peace: Big Vision Podcast with Sara Potler

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Dance 4 Peace began in Bogotá, Colombia as part of Sara's Fulbright Scholarship project in 2007. Dance 4 Peace is a conflict resolution, and civic education program that promotes empathy, understanding, mediation skills, anger management, and emotional and civic engagement through dance in youth around the world. Share Tweet.

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Reaping the Benefit of Open Platforms

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reaping the Benefit of Open Platforms September 6, 2007 One of the cool things about free and open source software is that often (not always, but often) they provide an open platform for add-ons.

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What are learning platforms?

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Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Linux ready for the desktop?

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August 9, 2007 It’s been 7 weeks of using Ubuntu 7.04 (better known as Feisty Fawn) as my primary desktop. Now the ugly: If you are used to integration between your email, calendar and addressbook, there is only one option (Novell Evolution) and it is not very good. I figured it was time to give my final assessment.

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Frustrations

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It took me a couple of frustrating hours or so to configure samba (editing the samba.conf file and testing) so that I could share my home directory, with music and video, with my other computers, and share my printer. Plugged it in, and it just worked. Of course with my mac, I opened up the system preferences, checked a button, and, voila!