Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

So, I’m not giving up on using Linux as my desktop, but I am giving up on using Linux to hold my calendar, addressbook and to do lists. I’m going back to using my mac for that – and installing Spanning Sync to sync google calendar with my mac calendar, so I have a calendar I can use on my desktop.

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Ubuntu Giving Open Source Calendar 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 3, 2008

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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Open Source Open Tools Free 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Lightning , which is a Sunbird calendar plug in, that gives me a calendar integrated with Thunderbird. For Thunderbird, the two I’ve been trying out include XNote , which is kinda fun, it allows you to add sticky notes to email messages. There are tons of other add-ons for all of the Mozilla Suite applications.

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Platform Benefit Open Open Source 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

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. So, overall, I like it, and I’m sticking with it, with the exception of my addressbook and calendar. Getting some hardware configured can be painful.

Ubuntu 100

Ubuntu Open Source Calendar Integration 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

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

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Platform Blackboard Learning Open Source 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

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!

Open Source 111

Open Source Ubuntu Music Course 111

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

Kivi at Nonprofit Communications , talks about how to keep track of the kind of data that writers need to keep track of – editorial calendars. I’m a fan of Google Notebook myself, but I’ve never heard of i-Lighter – I’ll have to check it out.

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Consultant Data Management Open Source 100