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Good Food Revolution: Will Allen of Growing Power

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He is also a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, and in February 2010, he was invited to the White House to join First Lady Michelle Obama in launching, "Let's Move!" - her signature leadership program to reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity in America.

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Giving up, a little

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Halle Butvin, One Mango Tree, A Fair Trade Clothing Company

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She spent much of 2010 in Pakistan assisting women-owned garment businesses to develop their products and export potential. At the moment, their work is focused in Uganda. In addition to working on One Mango Tree, Halle often works as a development consultant focused on economic development in conflict areas.

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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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Reaping the Benefit of Open Platforms

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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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Linux ready for the desktop?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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.

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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!